railstaff:
coomsey:
I need some help with this please. Is it industry normal to design the engine, make one then see if it works? Cheers PaulIt would appear AEC used the customers as test mules and let the customers do the testing.This still happens today.■■■■■■■ also took this approach.
To be fair ■■■■■■■ were on a good bet with the 855 at least.While Leyland’s business plan seemed to have been a case of Fogg setting up a competition between Leyland and AEC as to who could run up the most warranty claim costs with the 500 and V8 respectively. 
As for the V8 it was obvious that a bigger bore than the Scania DS 14 combined with a shorter stroke than a 1930’s Humber car engine was never going to work.