[SEL] Re: One Flywheel or Two?

[Patrick M Livingstone]

We have all learnt the dangers of trusting everything in engine catalogues
and books :)
I just checked through my files and of the 230 odd pictures I have of
Richard Hornsby & Hornsby-Akroyd engines only 4 have twin flywheels. None of
these appears to be a 'colonial' engine.
Patrick

Patrick M Livingstone
Leichhardt NSW
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-----Original Message-----

I have Ray Hooley's archive of original catalogues and descriptive
leaflets with me, and there are examples of twin-flywheel Hornsby
engines, the first I came across was the 'R' series oil engine of 1911
- 1925.

The "Standard Specification for Horizontal Oil Engines" lists engines
from 2 to 66hp and the brochure shows twin flywheels. The L and LE
were both Hornsby engines albeit during the transitional period after
R&H came into existance. The Class L engines ran from 1905 to 1912,
but the Class is shown as starting much earlier, these dates are for
the engine powers that tie up with the leaflet.

My last exhibit your honour, is a genuine original 1905 Richard
Hornsby sales leaflet for the Hornsby Oil Engine, showing twin
flywheels, on two sizes of engines.

Peter