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Originally Posted by windmiller78
nice to see the engine built as maclaren intended won against the cornish creation obviously maclaren couldn't be improved. i was supprised as i'd have thought colossus was heavier therefore getting more traction?? possibly the compound couldn't stall so easily so had a better pull. interesting in my brief look round friday that the extra cylinder on colossus didn't look to be jacketed. i wonder how much use it actually was?
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John Winters is a compound with two cranks in the crankshaft (DDC in Burrell nomenclature), and the power strokes would be less lumpy. I suspect that the 'smoother' power would make it less likely to pick its feet up, smoother being a relative term of course!
Similarly whilst them earthmover tyres are about the ugliest things you could ever put on an engine, they seem to grip well on anything, opened out fork truck tyres only seem to grip well on tar or stones, not so good in fields.
It would have been more interesting to see them with the diffs locked
