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[Rick]

Friends of mine have this unusual Austin lump. It came with some Austin 8 car parts, but this doesn't look like a car engine. One suggestion is that some early Reliant mini-trucks, the kind of thing that would be seen on railway station platforms etc, had engines similar to this. But can anyone be a little more sure about what this engine was used for? another idea is a donkey engine for something altogether larger???







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[Penman]

Hi
It might be worth sending the photos to these people:

http://home.hccnet.nl/m.hooijberg/bristol.html

the Bristol Tractor used Austin 10 engines as well as others

[Rick]

Thanks penman will drop them a line

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[Stuchamp]

Almost looks like it's setup for marine use.

[Scotty]

I've forwarded on the photographs to a museum acquaintance of mine who is steeped in Austin lore - hopefully he might be able to suggest its identity.

Scotty.

[buzzy bee]

[Rick]

Jeff (Bristol crawler person), who I emailed, sheds a little more light on things:

"your engine looks very much like our crawler engine but it is not the same, the head is the same but the block is not anything like ours, to me it looks
very much like a stationary engine use with the sump all finned as if it
stands still while running, interesting engine, sorry we cant be of help, when you find out could you let us know,in the mean time i will ask a few of the others"

so the plot thickens eh!

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[buzzy bee]

Hi

I will post it on the stationary forum I am on if you like?

Cheers

Dave

[Rick]

by all means, see what extra info trickles through!

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[pigtin]

Was once offered a similar engine that had been in a lifeboat, but can't remember what the sump was like.
The Bristol crawler used a ten hp as far as I can remember but (apart from the sump) it seems to be the GS1 model of the engine: first used in the late 30s on the Austin Big Seven and then post-war in the Austin eight and ten, so it's more likely to be post-war. Might even be 50s.

Don.