Blumlein's Plane Crash

[peter scott]

My old 1939 car (on the right) is remarkably easy to start on the handle any time I've needed to do it although you can only swing one compression at a time. A few years back I helped a friend with his 1920 Varley Woods and had to get used to a totally different technique. It had a very heavy flywheel and very low compressions so you had to wind it up with continuous turns of the handle slowly building up revs and eventually it would burst into life.



Peter