Thread: Aussie Made Tasman Engine, Anyone Know Of These?

Info on Tasman is:

1) Operated from 1937 till 1966.

2) Intially were at 191 Elizabeth st Waterloo and later at 37 Peakhurst rd Carlton where they operated under the name of Davis Engineering.

Apparently they initially made four models.

Davis Engineering states two models being 3HP and 4HP units. They had detachable heads whilst the earlier models didn't.

The detachable head models had Tasman and the HP cast onto the top.

The earlier models had the mag drive in line with the crank whilst the models from Davis Engineering were driven at right angles from the back of the engine(not the flywheel end).


I believe that a 4hp Penguin & a 4 hp Tasman were both made by Davis Engineering so from this we can deduce that though they were marketed by Penguin and Tasman they are essentially the same engine.

(from a search- I know zilch about 'em - but should make the sale easier)

digger

I'm sure someone on here would be interested as an engine conversion.

I had one as an auxiliary engine in a yacht, replaced with a diesel forty years ago, so don't remember much about them except that they used a Ford Model A piston and connecting rod. My main operating memory was the time the key on the crankshaft sheared, preventing it starting, with us becalmed in the ship channel on Moreton Bay, with a ship coming! (Towed the boat out of the way with the dinghy and Seagull outboard)

John