06-10-2024, 09:41 PM
I remember travelling from Datchet to Teddington on my late uncle's small cabin cruiser which had an Austin Seven engine. Sadly I don't remember all the mechanical details, but I think it had the typical chain drive arrangement for the crank handle, and also a chain drive to the boat's propellor shaft so that the engine could sit under the starboard side seat giving reasonable spce in the fairly small cockpit. The same uncle had an unfinished but driveable Riley 8/90 chassis fitted with a smaller Ford V8 engine. Both were disposed of before I was old enough to think about taking on either.