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[harry_gill]

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
I have worked on engines, but never on ships or boats, unless you count my spirit boat I made!

hiya,
Norm you’d have been OK with the one on the boat I helped crew it was a
trusty old Gardner 8 cylinder marine engine as reliable as the day is long it
might have only been a 6 potter the old grey matter isn’t what it was but I
seem to think it was an eight potter it certainly did the job which is a must
when in deep water and well away from land and especially when you’re a
non-swimmer .
thanks harry, long retired.

Proably the engine came out of a Guy Big J Harry.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
I had a feeling in my water that I was going to get that quip, Dave if I’d waited
for one of them I’d have had to row the trawler, it was a trawler not a longboat.
thanks harry, long retired.

[dave_the_renegade]

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
I have worked on engines, but never on ships or boats, unless you count my spirit boat I made!

hiya,
Norm you’d have been OK with the one on the boat I helped crew it was a
trusty old Gardner 8 cylinder marine engine as reliable as the day is long it
might have only been a 6 potter the old grey matter isn’t what it was but I
seem to think it was an eight potter it certainly did the job which is a must
when in deep water and well away from land and especially when you’re a
non-swimmer .
thanks harry, long retired.

Proably the engine came out of a Guy Big J Harry.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
I had a feeling in my water that I was going to get that quip, Dave if I’d waited
for one of them I’d have had to row the trawler, it was a trawler not a longboat.
thanks harry, long retired.

Sorry Harry,but I had to ask the question.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

Dave the marine engines were a bit more special than the lorry ones. they used to wear oilskins to keep them dry in stormy weather! I have taken a few engines out of tanks, they used to have two in, a ford petrol engine and it was used as a starting motor, to turn over the deisel engine.

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
Dave the marine engines were a bit more special than the lorry ones. they used to wear oilskins to keep them dry in stormy weather! I have taken a few engines out of tanks, they used to have two in, a ford petrol engine and it was used as a starting motor, to turn over the deisel engine.

Worked on site’s with Caterpiller dozers Norm,they all had an auxiliary engine to start the big motor years ago.
Cheers Dave.

[harry_gill]

Dave the Renegade:

Norman Ingram:
Dave the marine engines were a bit more special than the lorry ones. they used to wear oilskins to keep them dry in stormy weather! I have taken a few engines out of tanks, they used to have two in, a ford petrol engine and it was used as a starting motor, to turn over the deisel engine.

Worked on site’s with Caterpiller dozers Norm,they all had an auxiliary engine to start the big motor years ago.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Big Cats = donkey engines is the correct term for the auxiliary starting engine.
I wish I’d a quid for every one I’ve transported, Cats not just the engines.
thanks harry, long retired.

[dave_the_renegade]

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

Norman Ingram:
Dave the marine engines were a bit more special than the lorry ones. they used to wear oilskins to keep them dry in stormy weather! I have taken a few engines out of tanks, they used to have two in, a ford petrol engine and it was used as a starting motor, to turn over the deisel engine.

Worked on site’s with Caterpiller dozers Norm,they all had an auxiliary engine to start the big motor years ago.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Big Cats = donkey engines is the correct term for the auxiliary starting engine.
I wish I’d a quid for every one I’ve transported, Cats not just the engines.
thanks harry, long retired.

I’ve also pulled the lever to fire a cartridge to start a Cat engine Harry.
Cheer’s Dave.

[rigsby]

that was a posh one dave , the dozer up at the quarry , put the cartridge in , screw the cap on and belt the stud with a hammer . that was also posh , someone grafted the top of a standard 8 on it to keep the wind out on the quarry top . funnily enough it was a polish mechanic who stayed here after the war , he could make the most amazing things out of bits and pieces , cheers , dave

[dave_the_renegade]

rigsby:
that was a posh one dave , the dozer up at the quarry , put the cartridge in , screw the cap on and belt the stud with a hammer . that was also posh , someone grafted the top of a standard 8 on it to keep the wind out on the quarry top . funnily enough it was a polish mechanic who stayed here after the war , he could make the most amazing things out of bits and pieces , cheers , dave

Strangely enough Dave,this was an ex Italian P O W who stayed on after the war.He was a good bloke on a 360% Priestman Navvy,but hopeless on a Cat traxcavator 955 which wouldn’t start half the time,he later had a newer 951,but he wasn’t any good digging with either of those.Its a long time ago,but I’m sure I pulled a lever when he gave me the signal to fire the cartridge,perhaps that was a homemade thing.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

Norman Ingram:
Dave the marine engines were a bit more special than the lorry ones. they used to wear oilskins to keep them dry in stormy weather! I have taken a few engines out of tanks, they used to have two in, a ford petrol engine and it was used as a starting motor, to turn over the deisel engine.

Worked on site’s with Caterpiller dozers Norm,they all had an auxiliary engine to start the big motor years ago.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Big Cats = donkey engines is the correct term for the auxiliary starting engine.
I wish I’d a quid for every one I’ve transported, Cats not just the engines.
thanks harry, long retired.

They was called that on the tanks, ie doing the work of getting the main engine started. oh my god Harry now I know why you drink the golden nector, to get you main engine started!

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

Norman Ingram:
Dave the marine engines were a bit more special than the lorry ones. they used to wear oilskins to keep them dry in stormy weather! I have taken a few engines out of tanks, they used to have two in, a ford petrol engine and it was used as a starting motor, to turn over the deisel engine.

Worked on site’s with Caterpiller dozers Norm,they all had an auxiliary engine to start the big motor years ago.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Big Cats = donkey engines is the correct term for the auxiliary starting engine.
I wish I’d a quid for every one I’ve transported, Cats not just the engines.
thanks harry, long retired.

They was called that on the tanks, ie doing the work of getting the main engine started. oh my god Harry now I know why you drink the golden nector, to get you main engine started!

There is a nice crack to those big Cat engines.I also like the sound of any marine diesel engine,they always sound powerful,probably has something to do with the exhaust system on them.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

In 1963/4 I was on a Coles Crane working on the M1 near Shepshed and the earthmoving Euclid’s had big engine.

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
In 1963/4 I was on a Coles Crane working on the M1 near Shepshed and the earthmoving Euclid’s had big engine.

I would think that you would be on good money Norm, working on a motorway job operating a crane.
Cheers Dave.

[harry_gill]

Dave the Renegade:

Norman Ingram:
In 1963/4 I was on a Coles Crane working on the M1 near Shepshed and the earthmoving Euclid’s had big engine.

I would think that you would be on good money Norm, working on a motorway job operating a crane.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Norm would need a Coles crane to lift his pay packet.
thanks harry, long retired.

[norman_ingram]

Yes Dave it was until I chopped my hand in half on June 4th 1964,then I had almost nine months of povatry to keep a wife and two children.

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
Yes Dave it was until I chopped my hand in half on June 4th 1964,then I had almost nine months of poverty to keep a wife and two children.

I can well imagine you didn’t have much to live on then Norm.Not much in the way of benefits in those days.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

Dave it was £7.5s and when the wife went to work to help pay our way, they knocked it down to £4, so she was doing a 40 hr week for about £5 take home pay more, so I told her it would be better to stay at home, so she told the foreman at Plessey’s a electronic firm near Towcester she was leaving and the reason, so he gave her outdoor work, and she did it at home because she was so good at it, we used to have trays of it, I used to help her, I set up a wooden jig so I could do it with my left hand, sometimes we had the van deliver emergancy loads for we was doing it so quick, the management came around to our home to see how we was doing it so quick, they saw my jig and said that is amazing that a onehanded person can do it so quick and so good, can we use your idea, so we can employ more handicaped people, I said yes, they sent us two hundred pound size hampers for xmas, that certainly eased our predicament. But I was brought up in a poor family, so we had the instinct to survive.

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
Dave it was £7.5s and when the wife went to work to help pay our way, they knocked it down to £4, so she was doing a 40 hr week for about £5 take home pay more, so I told her it would be better to stay at home, so she told the foreman at Plessey’s a electronic firm near Towcester she was leaving and the reason, so he gave her outdoor work, and she did it at home because she was so good at it, we used to have trays of it, I used to help her, I set up a wooden jig so I could do it with my left hand, sometimes we had the van deliver emergancy loads for we was doing it so quick, the management came around to our home to see how we was doing it so quick, they saw my jig and said that is amazing that a onehanded person can do it so quick and so good, can we use your idea, so we can employ more handicaped people, I said yes, they sent us two hundred pound size hampers for xmas, that certainly eased our predicament. But I was brought up in a poor family, so we had the instinct to survive.

I think we were all brought up in hard times Norm,nut it made us appreciate what we have and strive to better our selves.
A lot of the younger generation don’t value things because they haven’t had to work for it.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

If I have said it once, I must have said it a hundred times. I am glad I was born in our era,and not this one!

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
If I have said it once, I must have said it a hundred times. I am glad I was born in our era,and not this one!

Whatever era you were born in Norm you would accept things as they are,because you wouldn’t know any different.But I know what you mean,things were better and more straight forward a few years back.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

I do wonder was the other lads think, about this generation, myself I think they are lucky, I know I could not endured, much longer on the sick, I was longing to get back to work, I wanted a better living for my wife and children, and by god I earnt one, all my children own their own houses, and don’t spend what they have not got. number two rule I gave them, don’t have things on HP, if you really need something, get it on zero interest and pay it off regular and as short terms as you can manage.