Engine Number Identification

[Martin Prior]

Thank you all for the information.

I had another look last night and, unless I am being obtuse, there is no starter motor fitted and neither is there provision visible to fit one. I confess that I had thought that starter motors were fitted to all models after the initial year or two of production. I have attached some more, rather dark, pictures, including one showing the actual car. The gearbox is a four speed box.

The car is in a much worse state than the picture suggests.


Jamie.

I've seen far worse, but I've never seen this combination of engine and gearbox installed in a Ruby.  Something done in the car's last dying days, I suspect.

The starter for this engine would have looked like the photo below, with the starter motor facing into the cab.