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I can't understand why the original Series II Landie that started this whole thread would have swapped a gasoline engine for the diesel. That is heresy. Everyone I know either is or has mulled over how to swap a diesel in place of the gasoline engine. With the OBDII Landies it's not very practical, but some have done it. I'm fortunate that mine has no Lucas parts. They are very rugged four wheel drive vehicles and get a bad rap from the copy-cat Land Cruiser people. (Toyota adherents please take note of the emoticon.)

Perhaps we should remember that the Cosworth DFV engine utilised Lucas Electric & Fuel Injection systems. Just think how good that could have been with Motorcraft or Prestolite ! ! !

After 3 pages, prolly time to talk about airplanes with scabbards and slipcases!

jack

Changing the diesel over to gasoline was actually a pretty good idea. They utilized the same short block for both which meant the bottom end (Crankshaft & bearings etc.) was way more robust than necessary for a gas engine making for a virtually indestructible unit.

Ah, to fly into the Scottish estate for a weekend of shooting in one's Stringbag (Fairey Swordfish) biplane, hop into the vintage Land Rover for the trip from the landing strip to the manor house, and once there un-case the pair of Purdeys while accepting the first of many tastes of 50 year old single malt from one's host.

Since the Fairey Swordfish was a large torpedo bomber and not introduced until 1936 the Gypsy Moth and the Tiger Moth would have been much more likely candidates........or possibly a Stampe which used DeHavilland wings....

Tiger Moth

Gypsy Moth

Stampe DV

Fairey Swordfish


Best,

Ah, but one would need the Swordfish to carry the weight of the ammunition one would surely expend of a weekend shooting grouse!

From the introduction in Guy de la Valdene's wonderful book The Fragrance of Grass, his celebration of a life of dogs and hunting partridges: "In the spring of 1932, my mother, a 21 year old strawberry blond, seemingly as comfortable on a horse as in a ballroom, flew her Puss Moth, a small single-engined plane, from London to Paris, then Southeast to Rome, across the Mediterranean to Cairo, and halfway down the east coast of Africa to Nairobi, Kenya. That summer she joined a safari led by Phillip Percival, the handsome and capable white hunter whom Hemingway later celebrated in his short story ""The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."

On a nostalgia kick: Imagine a fishing village on the grey North Atlantic during the war, a Fairey Swordfish making a forced landing on the beach in front of our one-room school when I was 11. We often had corvettes outside our windows riding out storms. Each weekend we scoured the headlands for remnants of cargoes---K-rations, chocolate bars, chewing gum, oranges, sailor hats, life jackets and carley floats---from torpedoed ships sailing to Europe from Halifax, 30 miles away. Taking our schooner to Halifax for provisions, we once confronted a long black U-boat in a fog bank charging its batteries; we waved, they waved and we sailed on. But the Swordfish was the highlight of my "war."

can't believe nobody put the joke in; why do the english drink warm beer? they have lucas refrigerators.

BIRDSHOOTER, Ahhhhhh Jeff, another poster on the forum that doesn't read what's posted........

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