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RichardShute:
Thanks for the compliments chaps. It is not too technically challenging, but I find it immensely satisfying to keep things like this going rather than sat in a museum where it is 'too valuable to run'. I will try to take some more photo's when I drop round with the parts for a fitting.

A few spec's might interest you guys:
The engine is a DeDion (of axle fame) and is permanently geared (chain) to the back wheels, but there is a free-wheel from the pedals. Start pedalling, the engine goes, you drive. Stop at traffic lights (only invented 30 years after the machine was built <VBG>) and the engine stops. Very 'eco'.

The brass slab under the cross bar is a 3-cell LeClanche battery for the ignition and the triangular item under the saddle is fuel supply device.
It is not a carburettor as we would understand it. Petrol runs into the brass box and sits as a puddle at the bottom, air to the engine is drawn from above the petrol which is encouraged to evaporate somewhat faster by the exhaust pipe being led through the bottom of the thing. As far as I can see, you are sitting on a boiling Molotov cocktail, but it's not blown up in the last 110 years so I guess it is safe.

Cheers
Richard

andyf:

--- Quote ---.... the triangular item under the saddle is fuel supply device.
It is not a carburettor as we would understand it. Petrol runs into the brass box and sits as a puddle at the bottom, air to the engine is drawn from above the petrol which is encouraged to evaporate somewhat faster by the exhaust pipe being led through the bottom of the thing. As far as I can see, you are sitting on a boiling Molotov cocktail, but it's not blown up in the last 110 years so I guess it is safe.

--- End quote ---

That's like the vapour carbs Jan Ridders uses. I wonder if he's thought of using the exhaust heat.

Andy

shoey51:
lovely restoration to a thing of beauty :thumbup:looking forward to the next instalment :clap:

Ned Ludd:
Hi Richard,
Clearly a man after my own heart, good job.
I seem to spend nearly all my spare time making bits and pieces for old cars and bikes.
Perhaps we ought start a "Guild of makers or repairers of bits to keep old vehicles on the road, and allied trades"
Ned

ieezitin:
Great job sir, I am sure the owner is more than pleased with your proficient workmanship.
Make sure you keep good records for your own posterity and others too.

All the best. Anthony.

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