There are still a number of dispensations for it's use. As such disposal is not a problem - there are places that will take it and recycle it for use by people with the dispensations. I actually got paid quite well for the last lot of Halon extinguishers I disposed of.
Chieftain tanks used to do something similar...horizontally opposed, two stroke, multifuel, 6 cylinder with a supercharger for scavenging...the blower oil seal could fail, and the engine would run until it had consumed all it's own oil...about 30 gallons of the stuff...fluid flywheel, so can't stall it...engine covers needing a crane to get them off...intakes nicely shielded (don't want the enemy chucking nasties straight into the engine)...tankies used to sit and wait for it to seize...
An engine never designed for transport IIRC. It was meant for constant speed running as a generator I think. About 15 years ago I worked at REME, where they seemed to be despised as an engine.
Mine was just about the last one ever registered before the Primera came in. My Dad went to buy a Bluebird 1.8 thing and the salesman said 'you can have that for the same money' as someone had just cancelled their order.
I bought it off him about 3 years after that, so it was in pretty good shape as he'd looked after it well. I thrashed 30,000 miles onto it. It started to use oil a lot, and I almost ran it dry. It's probably no coincidence that the wastegate started playing up shortly after.
The 200SX that I got new shortly after was the best car I ever had - merciless abuse for 80,000 miles and the only thing I replaced outside the service schedule was 1 spark plug that burnt away within a few days of being fitted.
The Meteor was the version of the Merlin which Rolls Royce traded with Rover for the jet-engine business during WW2. It was used in some late- war tanks, and the Centurion.
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