[SEL] 16 HP Ronaldson Bros & Tippet Video

[Patrick Livingstone]

Hi Arnie,
I will see what facts and figures I can dig out for you later. We only got
back from a week in Singapore last night so I have a lot of catching up to
do.
Off the top of my head... The largest portable known to survive is a 25hp! I
have seen this engine in person and it is massive. The largest Austral to
survive is a 32hp which is in the process of being converted from a
stationary to a portable for ease of movement.
My 3.5hp portable weighs in at 1.25 tonnes so if you scale up from there the
25hp is a beast.


On 1/10/09 3:30 AM, "Arnie Fero" <fero_ah at city-net.com> wrote:

> G'day Patrick,
> 
> Man, you are a master of understatement!  Having been involved for a couple of
> years
> now in helping to schlep Dave's 11 hp "portable" Astral from show to show, I
> can't
> imagine what it takes to move one of the nine "portable" 16 hp Australs.
> 
> What does one weigh?  Was 16 hp the largest portable Austral made?  What is
> the
> largest one known?  And wot does IT weigh?
> 
> See ya,  Arnie
> 
> PS - They really are gorgeous engines to watch / listen to running!!
> 
> On Wed, September 30, 2009 7:27 am, Patrick Livingstone wrote:
>> It is a lovely engine. There are 17 16hp Australs on the register & 8 of
>> these are stationaries. There are quite a few large stationary Australs on
>> the register by they are seldom seem at rallies due to the difficulty in
>> moving them around.
> 
> 
> 
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Patrick M Livingstone
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