P.A.W engine factory vid

[TartanMac]

Found this and thought I'd share it. I think it would be great for rcm&e to do an article on this company I would find that a very interesting read. The Wren one is great.

[Frank Skilbeck]

Lovely , where's the like button when you need one.

Edited By Frank Skilbeck on 03/04/2018 07:59:39

[DaveyP]

Nice video could have been a bit longer though

I still have 2 PAW engines, bought when I was a lad back in the 60's..........

[J D 8]

Nice,I was running my PAW 1.5 RC the other day hoping for some flying weather.

[Paul Marsh]

Only live 20 mins away and been there.

[Josip Vrandecic -Mes]

Hi TartanMac,Amazing ... this is something very hard to find today .... unfortunately new times new ways of schooling .... thank you very much for sharing

[Paul Marsh]

Only got one PAW engine - .80 ; Reason why is that I don't fly control line and regarding rc, engines are over the capacity I use, though their .60 is good, but larger I use a four stroke, anyway. Good to see they are still going, considering the turn in aero-modeling, in general.

[Alan H]

Thanks for the video link, real old school engineering shop. I've had a few PAW's over the years and they have all been good runners.

[Wilco Wingco]

Great video of a British engineer. Thanks for the link

[Mike Etheridge 1]

Reminds me of my trip to the ED factory in 1962. I was amused a week or so ago whilst reading so of the history of the company and found that it was owned by a Brian Etheridge (no relative ) for a few years. I have a nephew Brian Etheridge but he has never been an aero modeller but his brother Nigel was an expert RC and Control line flyer,

The very last version of the E.D. Super Fury appeared in 1980. It was intended to be a "replica" of the original blue-headed Super Fury of 1960, since it sported a blue-anodized head and dispensed with the twin exhaust stacks. However, it was very far from being a true replica since it retained the plastic backplate and rear disc valve of the previous Surbiton models. It did however perform at a very high level and remains a fine collectible in its own right.

In this manner, the E.D range continued to hold a place in the British model engine marketplace into the 1980's. However, competition from the US, Japan and other developing countries was then rapidly submerging the British model engine industry in almost every respect, just as it was doing concurrently to the British motorcycle and automobile industries. Consequently, E.D. continued to fade gradually into the background despite the best efforts of Ken Day and his colleagues.

Eventually the business passed into the hands of Brian Etheridge, who moved the enterprise to Hampton Court. Here E.D. continued to trade for another five years or so until financial considerations resulted in a further change of ownership to Alan Greenfield of Weston (UK) in 1985.

Alan had worked with Ken Day from 1972 onwards and hence knew the products well. As a very active marine and aero modeller, Alan was well versed in the technology of tuned pipes, multi-speed carbs and marine engines. With his experience of E.D. and its products, Alan resurrected many of the original engine designs in the range using original tooling and castings that had survived over the years. E.D. moved yet again, this time to Sittingbourne in Kent. The original designs that survived were the Racer and Super Racer, the Super Hunter, the Viking 4.9cc marine, the Super Otter 3.46cc marine, the Sea Lion 4.9cc marine and the air-cooled Viking into which the old 5cc Miles Special had now been transmuted.

[Ace]

Thanks for that, real proper cottage industry British engineering - fantastic insight, all be it briefly.

+1 for an article - would make interesting reading