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Old 20th September 2007, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
Don't get carried away, fellas. It is not the aluminium single OHC FPF engine. It is the little side valve engine from the 1930's and looks a lot like an Austin 7 or Ford 8.
Probably one of a batch made by them for Swift of Coventry; they got left holding the baby (actually hundreds of engines or at least the raw castings) when Swift went belly up in 1931. Most of them had generators or pumps added and went into Britain's rearmament after about 1933.

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