Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Grahame, I wouldn’t worry about reinstating how you took it apart, I look at it as some idiot of an idea to cause other issues when in standard form it would be impossible to get. I have seen this before like a lad on the shop floor knew what he was doing wasn’t quite the ticket but expressing his opinion gets told off from above. A certain director had a vacation, and a design engineer had already got things well advanced with patten made for casting and by the time this particular director came back a twin overhead cam engine was up and running on test showing great things. Well it got well and truly stamped on, there were six engines built so that was a feat in its self, fifty years later a engine turned up in a Riley chassis but not a Riley engine, it had been found and raced many years with success without issues without being stripped, so showing its great design and mechanical strength. Photos of it were published in a motoring mag saying does anyone recognise this and someone did, It would have been a huge asset and the engine that was used was not quite a lame duck but noting so as reliable or advanced as the one that already had been made.