Fowler 170hp gyrotiller engine
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Fowler 170hp gyrotiller engine
After searching the net, and books I have, I have found plenty of info on the gyrotiller itself, but very little on the M.A.N diesel engine that powered it!!! Anybody know any more about them??? Model, capacity, bore, stroke, etc??? I believe they were originally made for submarine use
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Re: Fowler 170hp gyrotiller engine
fang wrote:After searching the net, and books I have, I have found plenty of info on the gyrotiller itself, but very little on the M.A.N diesel engine that powered it!!! Anybody know any more about them??? Model, capacity, bore, stroke, etc??? I believe they were originally made for submarine use
Hello Andrew,
My information is that only eight units were produced with the MAN engine, all in 1932.
These were all exported.
The MAN engine was apparently 150 hp. (not 170), but I know nothing more about it.
Fowlers were fitting their own 170 HP. units by 1933.
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Re: Fowler 170hp gyrotiller engine
My late Uncle remembered one being used on the neighbouring farm in Gt Wakering, Essex. Not an entirely successful machine, awkward to move and it seemed to destroy the soil structure. Apparently some of the old farm boys reckoned it took years for the ground to recover.
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Around my area the Gyrotiller had a very good name and cleared very large sections of Wild Farm Land, one of the Contractors doing this work was Bomfords, I have often been told about 1 of these monsters fitted with a Merlin R/Royce (Spitfire?) Engine by some local old Farmers???
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Re: Fowler 170hp gyrotiller engine
essexpete wrote:My late Uncle remembered one being used on the neighbouring farm in Gt Wakering, Essex. Not an entirely successful machine, awkward to move and it seemed to destroy the soil structure. Apparently some of the old farm boys reckoned it took years for the ground to recover.
Hi Pete,
They said the same about the Rotovator in the 1960s.
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Re: Fowler 170hp gyrotiller engine
FOWLER MAN wrote:essexpete wrote:My late Uncle remembered one being used on the neighbouring farm in Gt Wakering, Essex. Not an entirely successful machine, awkward to move and it seemed to destroy the soil structure. Apparently some of the old farm boys reckoned it took years for the ground to recover.
Hi Pete,
They said the same about the Rotovator in the 1960s.![]()
Fred
Yes but were they not right in some cases?
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