Re: Paddocks .. good and bad ...

"Ian Rawlings" <news06@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 2008-07-16, Ian Rawlings <news06@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Yep, Aveling Barford, and that's about all I know, and he's in no fit
> > state to supply any more details.  It was a very early diesel, one big
> > cylinder, redlined at something close to 80 RPM IIRC.
>
> In fact, now I do a quick check, it was an Aveling Barford DX8, the
> one in the top left of this page, there's not much about them on the
> internet, they're very rare.
>
> http://waltonhallmuseum.com/_wsn/page3.html
>
> You can see one flywheel but that one's got a cover on it that covers
> the drive chain, the other side has another flywheel on it that's not
> covered or held on by anything other than a pin, which it seems didn't
> do its job!
>
It's nearly as old as me. You've not got it now I take it?  Insurance
wouldn't like it now I suppose. Did he work it or was it just a hobby?
Probably fitted with a Field Marshal engine, but I wouldn't really know.

Martin