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MUTT engines

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 4:23 pm
by bobtanker
Does anyone know who made the engines for the M151?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 4:41 pm
by cp
Hercules, for one. I have read that there is at least one more engine manufacturer, but the name eludes me right now. IIRC, as underpowered as the Hercules is, the other is worse.

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:13 pm
by Guest
White Motor Company made most, Next Ford, but I have never heard that Hercules made any.

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:19 pm
by blackdog
The engine is actually a german design too :]

That's all I have to contribute though :(

Hercules engine - Ford taunus

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:19 pm
by muttguru@aol.com
Dear Muttfans,

Hercules most certainly was a manufacturer of Mutt engines. Somewhere in the archives I have a photo of a product sheet from the company clearly showing the mutt engine.

Blackdog is also correct when he says it was a german design. The mutt engine reminds me very much of the British Ford cars the Consul and Zephyr) of the late 50s.

A couple of years ago, i was in touch with a Ford engineer who was involved in the testing of an M151 engine in Egypt in the 1950s.

He confirmed that the company used an off-the-shelf engine which was already in use in the Ford Tunus (Grmany). I would reckon that the Taunus owed its creation to a similar-engine design in Michigan.

Kind regards....
ken

m 151 engine

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:16 pm
by svramselaar
hello

the engine is a HERCULES type L 141

the site KEN refer is from TAPCO

www.tapcointernational.com/military.htm

there are a drawings of the M151

on the other site is a picture of the engine ( /L141.htm )

is it posseble thad CONTINENTAL also made engines for the MUTT ???

greetings george