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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
The sleeves were seizing because when finished they were stacked on their sides, causing them to go out of true.
The solution was to stack them standing vertical.
Sounds like the sort of simple, elegant solution you'd expect from a group of Lancashire lads!
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Brilliant!! That`s that then.
But I`d still like to know for just how long Clayton were invoved with Hercules engines after WWII had finished. About that time the jet engine was beginning to sound the death nell for engines like the RR Merlin/Griffin/ Napier Sabre.