gazsa401:
grumpy old man:
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, DEANB, lurpak, pv83 and Dirty Dan
OilyScammell Rigid Eight
Does anybody fancy swinging that starting handle to fire up the Gardner?
We had a yard foreman at Stirlands named Vic Lloyd he had shoulders and arms like Garth and we had a 6LW generator incase of power cuts
He could start it with one swing I couldn’t even turn it over even with the decompression levers up [emoji1303]
From my memory, and I was lucky enough almost just to miss the handle swinging era, it took several blokes and a bit of rope to achieve that. I do remember just one occasion, outside some digs, where all hands went out and started each motor one by one leaving a collective racket and a pall of smoke over the district as all went back in for breakfast while the cabs warmed up. 
Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration, cabs didn’t get warm in those days. 
Oh how the neighbours loved us. That bit is a bit of an exaggeration too. 