A Engine in a Movie

Bruce of MN

Bruce of MN

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We are watching Operation Mincemeat on Netflix and in a fairly late scene, what looks like a Model A block appears. It is upside down on a desk (no studs) with the crank in place and you can see the right side cylinder shapes and timing gear. It looks like it might be a little small; are there similar design English blocks that it might actually be?

I'll try to photograph the TV screen today and post.
 
The English version of the Model A engine was "small bore." I think total net power limited to 14HP by the small size. But that engine was the standard block simply bored smaller (or sleeved) to meet the English tax/horsepower requirements.

One page/example of this variant from Vince Falter's most excellent site. https://www.fordgarage.com/pages/1933modelb24and14.9ib.htm

Those on Brit soil can perhaps add to this thought.

I have been "fooled" by a pile of Model T blocks. But flipping one over revealed the true identity.

Joe K
 
Here is the scene:

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The horsepower tax was introduced to protect English manufactures against cheap high quality USA imports , Essex,Irskin etc etc . Anything over 15 HP attracted punitive "road tax " Ford countered this by bringing out the AF 14.9 HP engine . The 3" bore block was cast in Fords tractor plant in Cork Ireland . The picture is most likely an AF block you can see the gaps between the bores in the casting . It is not a small 8 HP or 10 HP English engine .

John in still freezing Suffolk County England .
 
With the script on the side of the crankcase and lack of an oil fill- breather, that is a Model T engine.
 
You are right of course T block for sure . Between the two world wars over half of vehicles on British roads were T and TT .

John in same place same weather .
 
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