More rare than a very rare thing...

[charlesp]

Quoting from 'Outboard Motors and Outdrives' by R.H. Warring, Pitman, 1966:

Under 'Interregnum', referring to the war years, Page 8:

"In this country British Seagull also produced an inboard-outboard power unit for service use, based on their standard power unit and taking a drive through the bottom of the hull"

They did, of course, produce the SD110 and SD160 years later, a long time after this book was published. So it can't be referring to that.

Nobody I've ever spoken to has seen one of these, and the factory listings don't refer to one. The military manuals don't refer to it, although they may well have been item specific.

Anyone coming up with an inboard-outboard 102 would truly have a rarity. Any ideas anyone?

[Oyster 49]

Is the author getting confused with a Britannia middy? They had several uses I believe.

[Charles uk]

That could account for purpose of the top bush on the pinion shaft & why they developed the sub ejector exhaust water pump housing, soon after the wars end.

I've never seen anything that mentioned an inboard Seagull before the early 80's.

None of my ex British Seagull contacts worked there before the early 60's, but I will ask if they heard mention.

That's why I left researching the war years & the classic era to you Charles as it was more your generation!

[charlesp]

Those I've spoken to about the immediate post war have no recollection. The Service Department never had one in to mend.

Apart from that the SD - years later - was seen as an entirely new idea, born of conversations with Mr Latham whose boat yard was about to produce a craft that could use such a device.

More my generation indeed. Mind you see my other post...

[Seaduck]

The 1st thing a Google search came up with was this site: http://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/i_ ... boards.htm

Some of you may have come across it before

Neal

[charlesp]

Yes that's the later one, the SD 160 and SD110