Ready for the Gamelow Manor auction.
The Hastings propeller at the same auction.
At home at last!
And the propeller.
It just fits, after removing the airbox.
Machining a Hastings constant speed unit (CSU) to fit.
The engine stripped of extraneous ducting.
Cramped for space!
The major components for the trailer. 100 X 200 X 5 mm tube from the local scrap yard.
The trailer tacked together, in Peter Grieve's workshop.
Trailer detail, showing oil tank sump and fuel connections to one of the side fuel tanks.
Fully welded together with the first coat of topcoat.
The basic trailer completed, at home.
The engine suspended free.
Peter releasing the engine from the turnbuckles, from which it was suspended, after it was safely secured on the trailer.
The engine on the trailer.
The engine's airbox which normaly directs air into the engine either cold air from outside the cowling or warm air from within the cowling.
The modified airbox.
Fitted with cover plate.
A prop blade with tools to strip off the deicing sheath.
The sheath partially removed.
The final stage using paint stripper.
The propeller pitch change mechanism (PCM).
The PCM with the dome removed showing the moving piston and cam that rotates the driving gear.
The PCM drive gear.
The stop rings that limit the rotation of the drive gear.
The tools necessary to adjust the balance weights in the propeller blade.
The tools used to ease the fit of the propeller blades on the spider. The Tufnol bushes having expanded making the blades an extremely tight fit.
The trimmed and balanced propeller blades.
The completed propeller mounted on the engine.
Modification of the propeller shaft oil seal housing into an engine mounting.
The completed rear engine mounting.
The first of six pictures showing the fabrication of a 4.5 inch across flats socket spanner to tightnen the propeller hub nut.
The spanner being used to apply 500lb.ft torque to the hub nut.
View of the project June 2009
The gearbox jury rigged to the engine.
The gearbox with tacho generator and dynamo mounted.
The coupling between engine and gearbox.
The exhaust outlet cut off for modification.
The completed modification.
The lower section of the exhaust with a section cut away to clear the axles on the trailer.
The completed exhaust nicely clearing everything.
Five control levers, for supercharger, pitch control, throttle, fuel and air cutoffs and hand turning handle.
The instrument panel with the throttle and pitch control levers.
'er indoors sat at the controls, the seat comes apart in two pieces.
Progress September 2009.
Hand turning gear.
Electrically operated ex RAF ram used to lower and raise bumper.
Battery box, showing the batteries, oil priming pump, relays controlling the starter and pump and charging cutout.
Oil level dipstick.
Tool, obtained from the widow of a former Bristol engineer, for tightening the sparking plug terminals.
Shows the tool in use.
