Engine Punk

There's been a hive of activity here recently at Anarchadia Publishing. Over the Christmas and New Year period, I worked up The Wormton Lamb into a state where it can at last be sent to Caroline Petherick (Magic Words), my editor. And now I've got it back! It seems that having collaborated on The Horsepower Whisperer we know how each other works and the whole process has been reduced, in terms of time, by a factor of at least ten. Now I have to go through and approve or discard her recommended changes. This is actually very enjoyable work and I'm looking forward to it but first I need to do some more publicity work. Most of this is for The Horsepower Whisperer. This book needs its chance first. But that's no problem because I can barely contain my excitement about what I've been up to recently! I'm not sure if it can be done but if not I can use the drawings for something else. Meanwhile the book cover has been developed with Red Snapper (Rebecc...

Just a glance at this drawing had me intrigued My web host Eric Cowan lent me a textbook entitled The Motor Vehicle by Newton and Steeds over Christmas. And there among its pages was a cut away diagram of a supercharged two-stroke four cylinder Trojan engine. This raises more questions. I've looked at the engine of a typical Trojan and this is nothing like what lurks beneath their floorboards. They're mid-engined and the cylinders lie down flat. There's no date of production but the book is the 1953 edition, originally published in 1929. There are two split cylinders and within these are two pistons and two conrods that share a common combustion chamber, which was a feature of other, more normal Trojans where more normal Trojans is an entirely relative term. With a bore and stroke of 65.5 mm by 88 mm, the capacity of the power cylinders is a nominal 1186cc, since the offset cylinder axes vary the strokes slightly. The two compressor cylinders measure 92.6 mm aga...