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<blockquote data-quote="vibrac" data-source="post: 94177" data-attributes="member: 60"><p>When I was at the Stevenage museum for a book signing I met an old guy who had worked on the lifeboat engine ( I have his name somewhere but not here) he was in his 90's he worked on the test brake not the motorcycle one but a "proper one" supplied by the government department.(his words)</p><p>He said the engine was too hard to start with the big lever for exhausted men especially after being flown in a cold aircraft belly so they fitted an electric start but on first tests on dropping the battery had frozen too! so they added heaters for the sump and battery compartment from the aircraft supply till drop time.</p><p>He also had a strange story about two Vincent company engineers called Brown one an Englishman who had worked on the Bedford Engines for the Churchill tank and one a German called Herr Brown who had worked on the Tiger tank with a maybach engine it was hard the get the whole story but I certainly never heard of this German chap in a long black coat and homburg hat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vibrac, post: 94177, member: 60"] When I was at the Stevenage museum for a book signing I met an old guy who had worked on the lifeboat engine ( I have his name somewhere but not here) he was in his 90's he worked on the test brake not the motorcycle one but a "proper one" supplied by the government department.(his words) He said the engine was too hard to start with the big lever for exhausted men especially after being flown in a cold aircraft belly so they fitted an electric start but on first tests on dropping the battery had frozen too! so they added heaters for the sump and battery compartment from the aircraft supply till drop time. He also had a strange story about two Vincent company engineers called Brown one an Englishman who had worked on the Bedford Engines for the Churchill tank and one a German called Herr Brown who had worked on the Tiger tank with a maybach engine it was hard the get the whole story but I certainly never heard of this German chap in a long black coat and homburg hat. [/QUOTE]
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