While in Malaya in the 50's I had occassion to see Land Rover with a
Rolls Royce engine and I do not believe it was a specially developed one.
It was sent to Malaya, with others, to be well away from prying eyes and to
be tested to the extreme. The instructions were to treat it just like a
normal LR and not to give it TLC. Many many years later I saw a bunch of
RR engines for sale at 50 pounds (lot of money then!) and advertised as
being destined for LRs but never used. I know nothing more about it and it
would be interesting to know what the devil was going on !!!
At 07:02 PM 6/6/00 EDT, WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
>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
>
>
Regards
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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