[SEL] Taralga Rally

[kkinney at herculesengines.com]

Sounds like somebody needs to rescue the patterns and make some more. 
Here is a Youtube like to one running:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgA0Eycklg
Keith


> G'day Mate,
>
> Thanks so much for the "back story" on the Wombat!!
>
> See ya,  Arnie
>
> On Mon, November 21, 2011 3:29 am, Kerry wrote:
>>
>> G'Day Arnie, Curt
>>
>> I was one of the few lucky ones that was able to obtain a much sort
>> after Wombat engine, could not get one from the builder but from a
>> resale from a friend that sold one, I took mine to the National Rally
>> and was surprised at the interest it created.
>> I spoke to the builder, Frank Little at Taralga and he told me the story
>> of the Wombat.
>> Frank was after a smaller English engine less that 1 hp that were
>> produced in small numbers 80 odd years ago but found that they were too
>> expensive when one came up, about the same time someone told him that
>> there was still a course in pattern making and casting at a local TAFE
>> (Technical Collage) they still had teachers but no apprentices and it
>> was open for others, so he attended and designed an engine based on hit
>> and miss principles then built the patterns and did the castings and
>> machining he sold them as a running engine, the name Wombat came about
>> when the first engine base casting was released from the sand upside
>> down and the two pouring plugs and the breathers (I know there is a
>> correct naming of these) but the four legs sticking up looked like a
>> headless dead Wombat that usually has its legs sticking up when dead.
>> Any way Frank designed both Air and Hopper cooled engines, in the hopper
>> style like mine  he used his wifes flower vase shape.
>> He then set out to make more, hobbies / income until his eyesight
>> started failing, he now cannot drive.
>> It seems that the exact number he made is in question but we know of
>> number 12, mine is #7 and is a 2/3 HP the same as Patrick's photo
>>> http://www.oldengine.org/members/pml/tar011/images/taralga2011%20067_jpg_jpg.jpg
>>
>> so at this stage thats it.
>>
>> Kerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20/11/2011 10:16 PM, Arnie Fero wrote:
>>> Looks like a nice rally Patrick and nice pics as usual.
>>> That Wombat is a really cute little engine.
>>> Are there many of those about?
>>>
>>> See ya,  Arnie
>>>
>>>
>>
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