Are there any quality boilers/manufacturers, at any price?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Two strokes are common in chain saws too. Doesn't make them ideal for a road vehicle.

[charles]

That's got nothing to do with the location of the plant.

[Frank Erskine]

And the Doxford J opposed-piston marine engine.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If you start a new car plant in an area with others, you'll likely get a high proportion of the new workforce that already have experience. Do this in an area without car plants and you'll not. In those days people weren't too keen on moving to work. That's why the new factory was sited in an area of high unemployment.

[Doctor Drivel]

You are wrong. A diesel train "may" get 40% efficiency. Power stations are at just over 50%. Line losses are less than 10%. You have also got to cost in the transportation of the diesel fuel to the depots, refining, maintaining a large fleet of diesel engines, the cost of making all these diesel engines, etc. A gas powered power station easily beats on efficiency in "fuel burn" to wheel. A nuclear station is even better.

[Doctor Drivel]

Again..."There are two-stroke diesel trucks." Most ships engines are two-stroke.

[Doctor Drivel]

The TS-3 went for 18 years and was ditched when Chrysler bought Rootes, who wanted to push existing US engines not understanding the unique small, in physical size, engine. The Commer engine was 3.5 litres with twice the mpg of comparable HP trucks. It was not ditched because of inefficiency. In fact Commer had 14 TS-4 engines successfully tested and were make the bigger version. One is being put to reuse in NZ.

The Aussies and Kiwis loved the TS-3 wit the best restored examples here..

[Doctor Drivel]

Not so. Maybe in the hands of poor Jock mechanics.

[Doctor Drivel]

ONE crankshaft. It had rockers.

[Doctor Drivel]

Nonsense. It was exactly the opposite of what you wrote. Read my others post on this. It was small and simple with a high HP.

[Doctor Drivel]

Three cranks. Suitable for marine and train uses.

[Doctor Drivel]

So do the big auto makers.

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[Doctor Drivel]

The also did the same with Liverpool. Ford and Triumph were forced there. The work force hated the repetitive auto jobs - they were not used to such boring tasks, being involved in shipping and ship building. Again they were poorly trained and automation was less than the USA and Germany, etc.

Liverpool and Glasgow were bound to have problems. They should have forced the shipyards to modernise and build ships indoors, not like they did in

1850. The conditions in the UK shipyards was appalling. High wage France built the QM2, when Liverpool or Glasgow could have built it and 1000s of other advanced ships with an emphasis on quality and advancement.

But Thatcher decided to off-shore manufacturing and concentrate on the South East -hence the crap we are in now.

[Doctor Drivel]

Hungary.

[Tim Streater]

She didn't "off-shore" anything. It off-shored itself - for the reasons you gave.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Again. Name one current one. There are lead acid battery driven electric trucks too - and steam ones. If you go back far enough.

WTF has a ship engine got to do with the price of apples?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Chrysler weren't interested in the UK market for trucks - far too well covered by others. And given Rootes went effectively bankrupt,why would they continue with their designs?

That is total bollocks. It was more powerful than similar capacity truck engines. But far less reliable.

Who in their right mind would use a 60 year old design?

Lots of relevance to the discussion - as usual.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Aren't you capable of using Google?

[geoff]

In message , Doctor Drivel writes

Was that without the mods?

[Doctor Drivel]

Yes, and it said Jocko mechanics re not very good due to being half pissed most of the time.