30-05-2019, 09:09 PM
I've just returned from a little cruise round the BCN, the Birmingham Canal Navigations, a gentle holiday of 90 miles and 165 locks. There are still some magnificent Black Country pubs, where the beer is very affordable and canal conversation can make Austin talk sound relaxed and utterly un-anorak. Why did Petter DP 2 engines get called Chip Fryers? Was there really an engine called the Parsons Scampi? Actually this was not an ooh matron sort of joke, but the name chosen for a Ford 100E engine attached to a Parsons gearbox. This made me ponder Austin marine engines, and finding an advertisement in a Motorboat Manual. Do any forum contributors have a marinised Seven engine in their dinghy?