Re: Enstone-Nov 2005

An excellent day out, I bought all sorts of precious junk I don't need, and some John Dungan doesn't need as well! The
car is still full of it at the moment as I had to leave it to cut overhanging branches in the meadows and light a
bonfire immediately when I got home. It was for a firework party for various friends' kids (we had the temerity to be
away on Guy Fawkes night). They've all just gone and the house is wonderfully quiet again. I'm still basking in the
afterglow of the sloe gin :-).

Meanwhile back at Enstone, got two nice sets of trolley wheels, a Lee Howl centrifugal pump for loading Petter two
strokes, odds and sods such as two petrol- paraffin changeover taps (one a proper Bamford one), a nice vintage oil can,
some phos-bronze to replace a bush for the lathe. Saw no engine that attracted me enough to seriously consider it,
apart from a pause for thought about a Stuart Turner gen-set. I managed to avoid further temptation by inducing Roland
to buy the Thompson Bennett mag, and he also very kindly bought the other centrifugal pump Philip tried to get me to
buy, phew! Philip also persuaded him to buy that piston ;-). I think Roland gets the prize for best haul this year.

I got the strong impression there were quite a few more engines, and rather more sellers there this time. Saw Martin
all too briefly and wondered what had happened to Kim.

Well worth getting up in the middle of the night to drive into deepest England.

Regards,
Arthur G

"Roland Craven" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:er2dnQXp4q0jquvenZ2dnUVZ8qednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>A cold start which turned out very pleasantly although a bit squidgy underfoot. Unusually these days too much stuff
>followed me home and the car adopted a quasi-Siddorn attitude :-)
> A good NG turn-out but failed to spot Kim. Were you there?
> For me star buys were a Thompson-Bennet mag which later gave a fat spark and a NOS in box Petter M piston. The latter
> was 3hp and +0.030" and earned me much abuse. I have still to decide whether to use it or put on a plinth in a glass
> case ;-)
> Uneventful trip home with unusually low F-WQ on the M5.
> --
> Roland Craven
> Nr. Exeter, Devon, UK
> roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.petternut.co.uk
>


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