I believe it was John Cleese (or one of the Monty Python group) who said of
America and England, "Two great countries separated by a common language".
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From: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
To: <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
Cc: 'FOT' <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: piston weights
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> Paul, just as a point of reference, when I used stock rods in my race car,
> I would lighten the rods (and pistons, and use lighter 'gudgeon' pins). I
> don't recall the exact figures, but I'm sure I was able to reduce the
total
> weight of the reciprocating mass by about 15%.
>
> On the other subject, I worked for Cummins Engine Co. for 21 years, and
> frequently travelled to their UK manufacturing plants (Darlington,
> Daventry, Huddersfield and Shotts, Scotland). Many were the times that I
> was asked by a well meaning young lady at the check-in desk of a hotel,
> 'What time do you want to be knocked up?'. It took me by surprise at
> first!
>
> My last job at Cummins was at a turbocharger plant here in Madison, IN
> (where I still live) which was part of the Holset organization. Holset,
> headquartered in Huddersfield, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cummins. I
> was the controller and had 4 ladies working for me in the Finance office.
> One day our plant manager (newly arrived from Huddersfield) came out into
> the Finance office and asked if any of the ladies had a 'rubber'. All he
> got was red faces, until he explained that in England a rubber is what we
> would call an eraser! Funny how the same language can have such different
> meanings. e.g. hood vrs top, boot vrs trunk, bonnet vrs hood, spanner vrs
> wrench, etc., etc.
>
>
>
> Hi Jack
>
> Many thanks for taking the trouble to weigh said parts. The similar twin
> cam assembly I have weighs 2030 gms - I found that quite unbelievably
> heavy. My father Ken always said every aspect of the twin cams was too
> heavy!! I think I'll take the assembly apart and weigh the piston and con
> rod separately just for interest.
>
> It's quite amusing how British and American words get changed or have
> double meanings. I have a habit, when in the States of ringing down to
> reception in hotels and asking the lady to 'knock me up' at am (meaning an
> alarm call). In England to be knocked up means either to be exhausted or
> awoken from sleep ( ladies will use this term quite unguardedly with no
> fear of embarrassment). 'Knockers' (besides the other connotation) were
> people at the turn of the century in England who went round houses near
> steelworks, mines or industrial areas etc., to knock on doors to wake the
> workers up. At the turn of the century in England, and for some years
> after, a worker who was 20 minutes late could be jailed for one year
> (statutory penalty).
>
> The term 'gudgeon' derives from the French word 'goujon' and through
> various changes became gudgeon. The derivation of the word relates to
> several types of pivot points probably the earliest of which were used for
> mounting church bells. The French derivation relates to the sockets on the
> stern-board of boats or ships in which a pin held the rudder blade. In the
> Oxford dictionary a gudgeon is described as 'any of various kinds of pivot
> working a wheel or bell or the tubular part of a hinge into which the pin
> fits to effect the joint.'
>
> Best wishes
>
> Paul
>
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