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(Rover 75 “cyclops” with the large centre headlamp.
picture from the internet.)

It was at the end of the second week that I had a big
problem. Thundering up the A1 home on the Friday evening,
full of the joys of Spring and the thoughts of soon to be able to
start my new job in earnest, I knocked out a big end shell
bearing. (This is an important part of the main engine
structure and mortal to the motor).
I did manage to get home which says much of the maligned
motor but before I could get to London to continue my training
I had to find a replacement engine.
Fortunately my close neighbour Peter, good friend and
boss to wife Ruth, was week-end off.
This meant Ruth was week-end on and I could get on with
the job in hand. Saturday morning found me telephoning the
local scrap car centres and I found a Rover engine that would
do the job.
Peter’s excellent Morris Minor Traveller was purloined to
make the collection and we called in at the Scout Headquarters
on the way home to “borrow” three large pioneering poles and
long lengths of rope, also loaded onto Peter’s Morris Traveller.

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