Gardner Engine Rally August 2023.

Held at Alvecote Marina, Tamworth, England on the 5th and 6th of August 2023 organised by the Gardner Engine Forum.
I believe 25 narrowboats travelled to the event and several static engines were running and on display.
Thank you to the engine owners who allowed me to film their Gardner engines and who also kindly explained about them. Also thank you to the people who organised the Rally.
I hope you enjoy this film.

[@pirate259]

Good to see you back. Beautiful old Gardner's plod on forever more. Great video, thanks for posting...

[@lifeisbetterwithaboatandad1534]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you so much for watching. I keep my fingers crossed that the Gardner engine in my boat plods on a bit longer.

[@cousinjack2841]

Positively musical. I served my apprenticeship as a diesel fuel injection mechanic in Johannesburg, South Africa, where there were more Gardner engines than you could shake a stick at. One of my jobs was to repair the Gardner injectors, (LW mostly) which used to regularly be delivered to us from the mines by the truckload. These injectors were the most frustrating, logic defying beasts to get right at times, well most times, and I must have overhauled thousands of them in my time. It's no wonder I'm not right now. Nice video; thanks.

[@lifeisbetterwithaboatandad1534]

Thank you so much for your interesting comment. I believe most of the narrowboats had either 2LW or 3LW engines in them. To my ears they sound the best. Mine was the only 4LK engine there.