PUB TALK
This column is being written only shortly after last month’s, which means that not very much has happened either. Indeed, less than one might have thought because ‘the Beast from the East’ hit Great Britain (and that is not an epithet for Vladimir Putin) taking temperatures down below zero in the daytime, and discouraging any work in unheated garages or sheds. Some readers in unfriendly climes may be unimpressed, but that is cold for the UK Midlands. It is just as well that it didn’t arrive a couple of weeks earlier or PUB might still be on a forlorn Welsh hillside! It did not seem so at the time, but the Dragon weather was actually being kind.
However, smaller jobs can be done indoors in winter, and one such had been to assemble a gearbox for the pre-war project. This pile of parts (if not pile of poo) included parts from more than two Burman dismantled BAP gearboxes – save that there was only one output sleeve gear between the two. There were also two of the double-gears, both of
