VICKERS MK6B's resto

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by colin jones

Bruce! I am very sorry my letterbox deviated from the Vickers so this is a copy from the last previous page in case you never went back one, so here is where I am.

Thanks Colin!!! ...the shakes and cold sweats are subsiding...

(but I do like the idea about red eyes in Mr. Post box)

Just wondering why the Brits would think two planetary gears operating an outer gear and driven by a central shaft made sense instead of a simple driven end. I imagine the whole thing is filled with grease or hypoid so it suffers from that other Brit characteristic of perpetual leaks?