archie57

I rather think that the motor 2nd from R is the Tadworth

Don't you start...!

- and a brilliant team they were. Always friendly and helpful, and the canal around Braunston especially is testament to the quality of their work. At least when ex-boaters are in the dredging gang you know they are going to take out as much as possible, and not work to some figure worked out by a pen-pusher in an office. I used to be on the receiving end of some mickey-taking mind.....

When I saw it at Hanwell yard it had a Petter PD4 in it

Too big for the tippets, and you wouldn't use those without the topcloths.....

They are the topcloths

Sorry to hear this, he was the Petter expert.

Dare I ask - how long is your boat...…?

- and presumably it still fits Edgbaston tunnel, despite CRTs best efforts......

Like they did at the Minworth embankment...…...

Have the residents of Wolverhampton stopped going to the loo...……

Ceres?

The PDs may have been unreliable in later Willow Wren days - Leslie Morton hated them - but properly maintained, as in BTW days, I'm told they performed ok. I had one for 27 years which, apart from a broken oil pipe, never let me down.

I'm sure Pete can tell us when eg Arthur Goddard had the Callisto…….