SteveandZoila
Senior Member
I was going to look a 40' trawler with 2 150Hp Leyland engines, would this be a choice as bad as than buying an Volvo! I tried to find info on the forum and the net, not much luck.
In my younger days I owned four British Leyland sports cars (Triumph GT6+, TR4, TR4A, and a Jaguar XJS). My favorite bumper sticker was "The parts falling off this car are of genuine British quality!"
But seriously, other than Lucas Electric (a.k.a. The Lord of Darkness) and some twitchy Strombergs and SU carbs, those English tractor motors ran and ran and ran... I considered them to be the most dependable part of the car.
Never drove one Tom, but I`d have expected terminal understeer with a V8 shoehorned in place of the 4cyl engine. Like the Daimler SP250. Ah, the joys of British sports cars.My favorite British gas engine was the one that was removed. Thanks to Carrol Shelby he got a boat load of Sunbeam Alpines and removed the bulk of the mechanical bits and dropped in a Ford V8 creating the iconic Sunbeam Tiger. Now that was a proper English roadster...
thread drift ............. my dad was a Leyland Master Mechanic at age 14 (building diesels in Glasgow)...... by 18 he was designing ships propellers for Harland & Wolff in Belfast and Bulls Metal in Glasgow. By his early 30s he was designing turbine blades for Orenda in Toronto ..... very proud of my Dad.
Having owned two 1950s vintage Jaguars I can attest that there is no problem with Lucas electrics. That is as long as you avoid driving under power lines. Now, Girling brakes are the real joke.
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Ah, you misunderstand the philosophy behind the Lucas/Girling set up.
In the event of the electrical system giving up the ghost(in my Healy this was achieved by turning on the left hand indicator) the Girling brakes were designed to keep the car moving for as long as possible, thus lessening the distance you needed to walk to get help.
Leyland are often mistaked by BMC engines.I was going to look a 40' trawler with 2 150Hp Leyland engines, would this be a choice as bad as than buying an Volvo! I tried to find info on the forum and the net, not much luck.
Leyland are often mistaked by BMC engines. The real 11.6 litre Leyland were procuced by DAF diesel Holland, when British Leyland stopped, I did sell for DAF here in Denmark.
But not better than Volvo Penta.
Please do not listen to ALL what is said about Volvo Penta. -or other European engines for that matter!
If that were all true, how would anyone explain the many commercial happy V.P. owners.