Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 24, 2006 at 18:07:58 from 81.144.214.226 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot launch posted by Jock on November 23, 2006 at 16:28:47:
Whilst we have established that the launch would have had a petrol engine, I think it unlikely that it would have been a Stuart Turner.
We may I think take it that the launch was not new in 1929; I suggest that two candidates for suitable engines are the Thorneycroft Handy Billy, mentioned in WDMTGTS as "Goblin"'s engine, or the Kelvin sleeve valve engine. My money would be on the Kelvin, as being of suitable size and excellent reputation, for quietness and reliability, at the time. They were in production from 1921 to 1941.
(There is a four cylinder one in the Windermere Steamboat Centre, sez he, with an air of triumph...)
AR had a Stuart in "Peter Duck", and did not get on with it. But they are not as bad as Laurence makes out!