Arrived at Greg's around lunchtime on the Saturday, and after being shown round his workshop we went and inspected the Lister. As good as he had described it to me the previous weekend.

Before loading the set onto the trailer, Greg filled me in on some of the sets history. You see, when Greg bought this generating set the back flywheel was missing. Seems it had vibrated off whilst the set was running and had gone straight through the shed wall, the only thing that stopped it was a creek bed about 2km away. He recovered the flywheel and because it had damaged the crankshaft when it came off, he turned down the crank, bored out the flywheel hub and scotch-keyed it back on. The repair is so good you would never know unless told and it hasn’t missed a beat in the last 12 years, running as the only power supply for Greg’s property.

The cooling tank has been made out of the inside of a hot water heater - so what I hear you say? Well, the hole cut in the top has had the edge rolled inwards, so as the water steams it condenses on the roof of the tank, and drips back in. A good idea for our dry climate.

Anyway, backed the trailer up and set up 2 steel ramps, then with a block and tackle, proceeded to drag it onto the trailer. Slow, hard work, but we got there without any dramas.

Now the set is sitting in the back corner of my shed, out of the way. I have decided to build a tandem trailer to permanently mount it on for display purposes, but I don't think I will get round to it until next year.

In the meantime I've found a very handy website www.semidiesel.com which has downloadable pdf versions of original manuals, including the Lister CS and Start-O-Matic and numerous other makes and models, check it out.