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Long Long shot engine hunt

  • 30-11-2014 10:18am
    #1
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,344 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just on the off chance one of you came across one of these engines over your lifetime, I am looking for a Thornycroft 20 hp A4 from around 1900 like this one that is in Australia powering a saw :eek: They were used in early Thornycroft cars and trucks and maybe just maybe there might be one surviving in Ireland somewhere :)


    Thornycroft-A4_zpse6b18107.jpg

    The engine will be used for one of the first powerboats ever built Scolopendra she raced here in Cork in 1903 against the famous race car driver Dorothy Levitt among others and maybe the oldest surviving powerboat ever built.

    scolopendra02_zps2176c287.jpg


    As she is at the moment, Thanks in advance for any help I know it's a long shot but if you don't ask you will never know :)

    IMGP2950_zps87a588e2.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    Bigus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭Bigus


    Buy the lads in Australia a modern more efficient engine and take theirs in exchange.


  • #3
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,814 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The uk is a better bet for searching than here, early commercials this side of the water had very, very short working lives.


  • #4
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,344 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    The uk is a better bet for searching than here, early commercials this side of the water had very, very short working lives.

    The word is out in the UK as well as a few other countries :)
    I know where there is one in the UK but they won't let me have it :D

    gaydoncar.JPG


  • #5
    bbsrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭bbsrs


    Put in a daihatsu charade 1.0 3 cylinder deesel, save a fortune on juice.


  • #6
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    bbsrs wrote: »
    Put in a daihatsu charade 1.0 3 cylinder deesel, save a fortune on juice.

    may as well build a fibre-glass hull too whilst you are at it :rolleyes:


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