Last year we were talking about trying to get a Gipsy Queen engine running in a stand for the Comet restoration open days. A friend of one of the volunteers promised to help make us something suitable but kept letting us down and we dont think it will ever come from him.
It crossed my mind that perhaps someone may know of something suitable we could modify to use perhaps lying in the back of a museum store
Can anyone help it would be great to have an engine running?
Thanks
Ken
By: chippie51 - 7th May 2010 at 11:32
Queen Stand
I think I popped a request for one of these a while ago, alas no joy yet. We’re fitting a GQ to the Fiat so need one to allow us to start stripping the engine.
I’m not sure one of these would be any good for running a queen. Too narrow and unstable I would have thought. A good trailer chassis with good wheels and an appropriately wide wheel base suitably modified would be a much more appropriate bet IMHO.
George
By: Fournier Boy - 7th May 2010 at 10:19
Or try Northbrook College at Shoreham airport, they have a Queen stand in their workshops.
FB
By: RPSmith - 7th May 2010 at 10:11
Perhaps have a word with Martin Slater at CFS. He has film he shows on the occasions he gives talks of his running an ex-Proctor(?) engine mounted in the front of an old car (Ford or Morris?) in the 1950s. 😀
It occured IIRC in your part of the World too!
Roger Smith.:)
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