I think everyone owes you a tremendous thankyou for all your efforts Ade. Bravo! I hope that your payment arrangements with the various owners made your efforts worthwhile and that everyone has paid up!
Unfortunately, we may still require your input regarding some of the equipment you handled and identification issues. There are 5 machines here that have not been identified by serial number (as per specific owner) and still 2 owners that do not know exactly which ones belong where. I suspect that these mostly came on board for Jeff and you had a lot of the dealings with him. I am left with a process of elimination here - not quite enough detail about storage and handling history in the U.K.
dieselgman
IIRC, all the buyers who paid me to collect engines had them collected (eventually!) except for the two from Joe Cobb, who effectively stole Jeff/Brett's money by re-selling the engines & refusing to refund any money. Therefore, I have no qualms about naming him - he's based in South Shields IIRC. Caveat Emptor.
I complain about the lorry.... but it pretty much earned its keep. It wasn't going to get another MoT (road worthiness certificate) though, the cab was hanging off, the exhaust was hanging off, it dripped all kinds of fluids, it produced more smoke than a tramp steamer, was addicted to easystart and the lights were barely adequate. An Irish guy bought it to be a dock donkey, I had to drive it about 8 miles from my base to the ferry port, what a pain...
No problem on engine ID-ing, just send me photos of the bits, plus serial nos where applicable, and I will see what I can do. The only one that I was sad to see shipped over was the one on a nice wooden trolley (bit of a show pony, but it worked...), Mark had to take it off the trolley because of the "no organic material" rule.
