This is an extension from my bit in the Lanz Bulldog post on Tractors and more likely for some of your overseas participants.
We have a 5hp watercooled diesel made by Kelly and Lewis in Australia. Model VEB and we have the original manual. It was put on a nodding donkey pumphead on a bore (maybe tube well to you folk) in 1955 and still going strong.
It is the only one I have ever seen - even some old engine folk I've talked to don't know it and the googler doesn't either last time I checked.
From the Lanz post I found that K & L built those in Oz - which might explain the metric thread we've found on the oil pressure gauge. Never been deeper to check any other threads.
But the thought is that it may have also been produced under licence.
It has a very uncommon cold start assist. There is an insert in the intake tract one end of which is an open hole, the other a pad you soak in half diesel half petrol and insert in the intake. Then when running you reverse this and reinsert.
It rattles a bit on start but has done so since 1955 - without spanners so far.
So has anyone met this form of starting assist on anything else?
If so that might point to a source of licence. Or maybe it was K & L's own idea.
We have a 5hp watercooled diesel made by Kelly and Lewis in Australia. Model VEB and we have the original manual. It was put on a nodding donkey pumphead on a bore (maybe tube well to you folk) in 1955 and still going strong.
It is the only one I have ever seen - even some old engine folk I've talked to don't know it and the googler doesn't either last time I checked.
From the Lanz post I found that K & L built those in Oz - which might explain the metric thread we've found on the oil pressure gauge. Never been deeper to check any other threads.
But the thought is that it may have also been produced under licence.
It has a very uncommon cold start assist. There is an insert in the intake tract one end of which is an open hole, the other a pad you soak in half diesel half petrol and insert in the intake. Then when running you reverse this and reinsert.
It rattles a bit on start but has done so since 1955 - without spanners so far.
So has anyone met this form of starting assist on anything else?
If so that might point to a source of licence. Or maybe it was K & L's own idea.