T&T: Lehman Replacement Engine

[Faure, Marin]

>I think the older ones like my SP135's were make in England.

For many years the diesel engines used in Ford commercial trucks,
including trucks made in the US, were designed and built in England by
Ford of England.  The engine used by Lehman Brothers to create the Ford
Lehman 120 is a British design and the engines were all manufactured in
Britain.  Same with the Ford Lehman 135.  In the case of the FL120, the
completed automotive engine was sent to Lehman in New Jersey where the
marinization kit was added (cooled manifold, raw water pump, heat
exchangers, etc.).  Lehman also sold their marinization kits to other
assemblers.  For example there were a few years in the early 1970s when
Grand Banks decided it would be cheaper to buy the engines directly from
Ford, the marinization kits from Lehman, and marinize the engines right
on the factory floor next to the boat the engines were going into.
After awhile they found there was no financial benefit to doing this so
they went back to buying the complete, marinzed engines from Lehman.
Lehman painted their engines red.  The Lehman's put together by American
Marine (Grand Banks) were painted green or gold.

There were other companies in England who did the same thing--- use
Lehman components to marinize a Ford of England diesel.  The British
like to give names to things like engines, locomotives, airplanes, etc.
The Ford of England diesel that Lehman marinized was called the Dorset
engine (I've also heard it referred to as the Dover engine but a friend
in the UK assures me that Dorset is the correct name).

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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington