VICKERS MK6B's resto

[colin jones]

I still can't believe how much trouble in their design they went to just for an engine cover. I guess they had their reasons.

[Dave lean]

Col. They knew that some day, way off in the future, some one in a far off land would have the temerity to try and rebuild a couple of these wee beasties and they determined that they would make it nay on impossible for such an undertaking to succeed. So in good old English fashion they over engineered whatever they could, designed concepts that could never be understood, Utilized bits and pieces from other designs, Hid away all the build drawings, Only built a relative few examples, Then they conspired to have these same two examples stripped and buried in a dump after their useful service life ended. But little did these conspirators know just how tenacious that "some one" would be... Oh by the way.... can I borrow your plasma cutter???

[David Dunlop]

Colin.

Top to bottom on those engine compartment covers, it looks like three openings are present. The top two have their own cover assemblies and the lower one at the handle, looks ducted - up and over a lip of the front hull plate.

Is air from these three openings directed to separate, specific things, like the engine carb, radiator etc., or as Dave Lean suggested, were the designers just out to torment you?

David