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Lara Doherty
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 10:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anybody have one? The engine is called "The Britannia Middy Inboard Engine". It is a 4 horse power, "Mariner" Inboard Motor. We think it was built in approx 1930. It is an English boat, and English engine, and the company that built them may have been called Britannia, perhaps the Britannia Motor Company, or Britannia Motor Boats. Other Motor Specifications that might be of use: Medium speed, twin cylinder, 50.5 mm. bore, 41 mm. stroke; 105 cc. piston
displacement, develops 4 h.p. at 3,000 r.p.m.
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steve fox
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 05:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Do you have a boat you are restoring? Is this why you are looking for a motor?
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Tim Mulvey
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I posted some info - pics from ads etc - on the Brittania under the Thread "British Anzani Inboard Marine Engine"
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Tim Mulvey
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sorry - a mixup - I'd promised to post some info - will do it this coming week under this thread.
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peter ogborne
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:41 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Tim ,I was wondering!
BTW,going to take a drive to Mt Barker to have a look at the British Anzani inboard very soon .
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Tim Mulvey
Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 05:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is an pic of the Brittania Middy inboard taken from an advert from the 31 March 1933 issue of the Yachting World and Motor Boat Journal (a British publication).

middy

The Brit Mariner is a different animal - it's a similar engine but the prop goes back thur the keel.

I have sent the full page article to Andrew for posting as I can't get the file to the right size with my software.
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andrew
Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 07:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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andrew
Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 07:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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JOHN
Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 07:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I saw your add on the MIddy sept 03 and I've got one. Do you know what sort of hull they were made for?. haven't been able to find out much on this engine or type of boat, believe they were used in some sort of military craft.
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peter ogborne
Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 04:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have a Brittania out board ,twin ,horizontaly opposed. Not being really interested in out boards i have not had a good look at it . I wonder if it is the same manufacturer as Brit Engineering ,Dorset ?I dont know if this firm still exists.They did make an inboard engine.....until i get my lent ''bible'' back i can't give any details.
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dfor37
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Posted on Friday, August 26, 2016 - 09:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anybody have a manual for a Britannia Middy engine. My Great Uncle die back in 1990 and he had one of these outboards. It has now been given to me. I would like to get it working again. Any help would be really appreciated. And yes I think it has been sat in a barn in a croft for the last 26 years, but it does turn over.

Thanks Neil
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robert
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Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2016 - 05:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Try www.internalfire.com and the UK stationary engine list as well. Good luck.
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john edwardson
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Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2016 - 04:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hello Dfor37,
I've got a couple of the britannia middy engines, inboard versions.
Have the same power head i.e. horizontal twin.
There really isn't much to them, they have lovely large gun metal bearings and con rods. Main problem will be the coil, if you can get a spark it will run.

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