In a message dated 06/06/00 1:48:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
barrier@bconnex.net writes:
> So what about tractor engines...........
> They also put Rolls Royce engines in Land Rovers and Austins. They also
> used waterpump engines in F1 cars (Coventry Cimax!!)
>
Actually....not.
The engines used in such other vehicles were never used in any Rolls Royce,
nor as I recall in any Austin, though I won't argue strongly about whether or
not a Vanden Plas Princess R is really an Austin (the other ones would be the
Austin Healey 'R' prototypes and maybe the Austin Gypsy). They were engines
used in armoured personnel carriers and such, and quite different from the
engines used in Rolls Royce cars. I don't recall any hook-up with Landrover,
either, which used Rover built engines, and latterly the BOP derived alloy V8.
The FWM (I think that was the designation, but I'm at work - it may have been
an FW something else) engine was never used in any Formula 1 application,
though it was enlarged and used for the Sunbeam/Hillman Pimp - a brilliant
power train in search of a decent chassis. Originally under 800 cc., it bore
scant relation to the 2 and 2.5 litre racing engines, used briefly, for
instance, in the F1 Lotus and Cooper Monaco, for that matter (I used to have
a pair of carbs off one - extra trivia points if you know what they were
called - eg. like H4, HS6, etc.).
The Nuffield tractor, OTOH, used an engine you could have bolted SUs on and
installed in a 1956 MGA, give or take a half point of compression or so, a
much more direct use of an automotive engine in a tractor, or maybe vice
versa, IMHO.
BTW, I have seen Standard Triumph engines in tractors and boats, and MG
engines in Mercedes vans......
Bill
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