[SEL] Trusty engine at Tulare show

[peter ogborne]

Hello Dave .. Yes definately an English engine and quite rare. If you can
get hold of a copy of TOMMS 100th edition there is an article that i wrote
about our clubs Trusty. It took us something like three years  from the time 
that i found it in an old drive in theatre in the mid west of Western 
Australia
and it is still being restored . We recieved great help from Tim Maicare
,Richard Amos and  Roland Craven [ who seems to have vanished] and Bill
Young in Tokyo and Chris Maddely. There are two other  engines like ours
,Tim Maicare has one in the UK , there is another in the Tokyo Science
Museum.....Bill Young sent us some very helpful photos. Andy Self in South
Africa has a Clayton Shuttle worth engine ,this is a version made after the
take over of the original makers. The first engine was made in 1887 by Mr
J.H.Knight in Farnham ,Surry ,UK. By 1894 the firm was taken over by the
Shillingford Engineering .
I believe the Timms Brothers have a couple of Clayton Shuttle worth versions 
. I tried to contact them for some information on their engines....never had 
a reply.
[ These brothers seem to operate in a veil of secrecy].
Our engine,number 689 is an interesting continuous lamp type .It has a 
sideshaft driven air pump to  blow across the lamp  flame to the hot tube. A 
fuel pump is activated by demand by the pendulum governor.
The ''Four Poster'' model is something else ....very desirable . Very little 
history on these engines . I did collect quite a bit but have since handed 
it on as i have left the city and no longer have any part in the 
restoration.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Croft" <dave.croft at ntlworld.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Trusty engine at Tulare show


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Listerdiesel" <listerdiesel at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:30 AM
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>> On 4/24/05, Jim O'Hagan <jdohagan at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > Hi Peter, Thanks for all the pictures of Tulare. Is the Trusty engine
>> > of
>> > English origin? It kind of has the look! This example is missing some
>> > of the
>> > ignition system as well as the fuel components. Are there any more
>> > complete
>> > versions over on your side of the pond? If some one had some close ups
>> > , I'd
>> > forward them to Greg, the owner. Does any one have any history on the
>> > company that manufactured the Trusty 4 poster? Thanks  Jimmy O'Hagan
>> > Jim O'Hagan
>>
>> Hi Jim:
>> I'll have a look back through the A-Z of English engines, but my
>> initial feeling is that this was a US-built engine. The four-poster
>> construction was fairly common in the USA, especially in California,
>> but relatively rare in the UK.
>> English engines of this era tended to have the maker's full details
>> on, while this one only has the name and serial number. That is not a
>> particularly odd factor, but one that tends to drive me towards a US
>> engine. The other factor is that is looks like a marine engine, it
>> wouldn't last very long outdoors in an agricultural environment.
>> Peter
>
> Hi Peter, I think this is an English Trusty.
> See http://community.webshots.com/photo/26047737/329399260grakvQ
> Thse Engine was made by Weyman & Hitchcock in Cheltenham.
> I think most of their engines were horizontal.
> ISTR that one of our Aussie members soaking a Trusty in a rust removal
> bath
> a couple of years ago.
> Dave Croft
> Warrington
> England
> http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
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