Re: Mystery Engine Found in Mayflower

["jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>]

>No it won't be a 1500 Midget engine. These were a Triumph
engine and so
>won't have MOWOG cast in (this was the Morris equivalent of
Ford's ForMoCo
>bit). Also the Midget 1500 has four inlet and four exhaust
ports. This will
>be (as already stated) a B-series from an MGA or something.


Which, if it is an engine from a 1500 Midget makes it the
engine from the Spitfire with its eight port head.
Midget used the Triumph engine sometime in the early
seventies onwards, mainly because the original 'A' series
BMC unit had major problems meeting emissions standards. At
least, that was the widely held belief.

Jonmac