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gregoryan
Advanced Member
Username: gregoryan
Post Number: 39
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 07:47 pm: | 
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Bore x Stroke = 4- 1/4" x 4", Revs 850, Prop 15"
I have recently bought a Blaxland Greyhound 6 \ 8HP from Boyd Guard in NZ.
It had served it's time in fresh water, on the snow-fed, land-locked lake of Wakatipu, Queenstown, New Zealand.
On the way home with the crated engine in tow, we decided to detour past the address of its birth; the factory in Erskineville NSW AU,
now very built-up residential inner-city, alongside the railway.
Turning into Clara St The trailer barely cleared the parked cars either side. Unfortunately now at No. 26, there stands a block of flats, but we took a pic anyway!
I wouldn't mind printing some letters to the surrounding houses asking for possibility of historic pics including the Chapman & Sherack PTY LTD shopfront!?
The shipping/crating, & mainly the customs broker, cost more than the engine, but am still Glad to have it!
*This Engine would have left from Sydney in the 1940's probably as a bulk Blaxland Chapman export,, only to return to Sydney via port Botany in 2008! That's a lot of sea miles! Presently I am preparing the engine to be run in the shed, but ultimately would like it in a boat.
I only know of one other Greyhound in a boat, at Dangar Island NSW. I will be going to visit the owner; Wendy soon, and to go for a putt! |
ernie
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Username: ernie
Post Number: 978
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 09:07 pm: |
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Greg,
Not much different here in the US.
click here for a similar story about a Palmer I brought home to New England a few years back
Enjoy
Ernie |
the_bigfella
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Username: the_bigfella
Post Number: 22
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 05:31 am: |
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Nice one Gregory |
senojn
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Username: senojn
Post Number: 24
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 02:49 am: |
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Nice painting of yours too Greg .
If that's you at the helm you have a lovely crew of females . Trust you dropped anchor somewhere ! |
gregoryan
Advanced Member
Username: gregoryan
Post Number: 40
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 07:03 am: |
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Hi Ernie, thanks for the link to your story - amazingly simmilar too!
THanks bigfella and senojn! ( i hope i pronounced that right )
Cheers
Greg |
gregoryan
Advanced Member
Username: gregoryan
Post Number: 41
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 09:12 pm: |
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Interestingly; this matching gearbox and engine [the gearbox input slides-onto the keyed- crankshaft] are of different vintages; The engine is Blaxland Chapman Rae of i believe post-1945? /// and the gearbox; a Chapman & Sherack of pre-1054?.!
Note; a Mr Sherack recently apperaed here at this site too!
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boyd_guard
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Username: boyd_guard
Post Number: 16
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 12:11 am: |
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Greg, it is good to see a eng and matching g/box that has no salt water damage considering the miles that it has done on the sea. |
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