Inclined Rootes Engine?

Colin Spooner ( snipped-for-privacy@dsl.pipex.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

The wImp certainly did.

Tony

Yes the Hillman Imp's engine was tilted, and in 45 years of motoring was my most unreliable car, bought new, and backed up by incredibly poor and incompetent service.

Stopped me buying British.

I know a Hillman Minx I had 1969 had an engine at a slight slant. So I guess the Sunbeam Rapier was the same as well.

Surely the Imp was Scottish?

Mark W (s@o) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Scotland's been a part of Britain since 1707 - LONG before they made the wImp.

So the whole country's industry got the blame?

I think these were difficult times for most manufacturers as they were trying hard to introduce new methods and designs and many struggled. I worked for a while in a VW dealership and was amazed at the number of new pistons and other such major jobs that were done - yet the owners always said thank-you and said how reliable they were every time they came in for a

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Colin Spooner" saying something like:

The H120 certainly did (to allow clearance for the twin Webers), can't recall offhand if the Rapier did or not, I'm fairly sure not. Afair, all the other alloy-headed 1725s were vertical.

And Scotland is part of?

the "UK" but its not british :)

bongo (- snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.co.uk_) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yes, it is. It's not ENGLISH, though. Wales is the same story, UK - yes, Britain - yes, England - No.

Nor'n Iron - now THAT is part of the UK but not Great Britain... Hence the full name of "The United Kingdown of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

The message from " bongo" contains these words:

Eh? It's British - but not English. Why do you think it's called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"?

The Act of Union in 1707 joined Scotland to England, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain.

My recollection is that all the Arrow series cars (1967 - 197?) had inclined engines (I used to have a '72 Rapier), and this page suggest my memory ain't as bad as it sometimes is:

Biggles