[Default] On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:36:52 -0000, "Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
>I always thought the the Kingfisher was based on a Chinese built >diesel, perhaps imported and marinised somewhere in the SW of the UK >but I may be wrong. >From memory the Ruston/Greaves is a very large upright twin and the >Kingfisher a horizontally aligned twin. Where is Brian Dominic when you >want him because I seem to remember that Rumpus had a Kingfisher engine. <Mr Humphies> I'm here!! </Mr Humphies> Kingfishers were indeed marinised Chinese engines - sometimes comprehensively rebuilt from their original (in my case) hopper-cooled agricultural form to something a little less unrefined! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk
