Greg "not a leak" Petrolati wrote last Thursday, referring to how his
neighbor "spotted my TR4's engine for it's Ferguson roots without
prompting". Much SNIPping.
I haven't seen anybody else make a comment, so I guess I will.
I sort of understood it to be the other way around. The basic engine used
in the TR2-4As ended up also being used in a Ferguson (and then
Massey-Ferguson) tractor. Ferguson was another division of Standard at the
time, as I recall. However, Ferguson saw an additional use for the Vangard
engine, deciding to put it in one of their tractors.
The engine was _not_ designed for a tractor, then also put in a car. Let's
say the tractor and TR had a common ancestor, not that the engine "came out
of a tractor".
I hope I am not considered to be nitpicking, but I hate to so many people
talking about how the TRs got a "tractor" engine. The engine was so good,
it could also be used in a tractor.
BTW, my favorite tractor engine (Farmall C) also had wet sleaves and piston
liners. And when I went to a Massey-Ferguson dealer once, looking for valve
guides to match mine, they thought I was crazy. My valve guides were _much_
smaller than any they carried.
Keith Edwards
Suffolk, VA
kedwards@norfolk.infi.net
4 1/2 TRs
1 A-H
1 Austin Princess Vanden Plas
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