Boat stories
Andora (Bob Tidy’s 1051 project), Bekita, Secunda, Newcastle, Minnow, President, and Sandbach. Workshop: 1051 No. 1001 dismantle.
bolinder-engines.co.uk · Stage 4 archive expansion
Bolinder marine diesel engines
A heritage reference for historic Swedish Bolinder engines — the workhorses that powered many UK canal boats and barges.
Explore the site
Educational rewrites from the historic bolinder-engines.info archive: boats, workshop projects, engine registers, manuals, locations, and sound.
Engine registers
Historic 105x and semi-diesel register tables, plus FMC 15 hp craft notes from the archive.
Locations
Beverley Beck and the Driffield Navigation — field photographs rewritten as modern location pages.
Gallery
Selected craft and engine photographs from the heritage archive (not the full dump).
Sound & video
Hear the thudding Bolinder beat: hot-bulb starts, pair boats, and canal films (YouTube embeds).
History & models
Swedish roots, UK waterways context, and family introductions for the 105x and semi-diesel lines.
Manuals & documents
PDF manuals, gearbox plates, and rescued service documents. Also: FAQ.
Enthusiasts & demos
Profiles of archive contributors and the wider vintage-marine network, plus API / AI Q&A / contact.
Roadmap
- Stage 1 — Confirmation site and custom-domain binding.
- Stage 2 — Feature demos (table, API, AI Q&A, form).
- Stage 3a — Structure and prose (history, models, manuals hub, FAQ).
- Stage 3b — Curated gallery and boat stories.
- Stage 3c — Document PDFs published on Manuals hub.
- Stage 4 (partial) — Sound & video page (YouTube embeds).
- Stage 4 archive expansion — Registers, locations, enthusiasts, original documents.
- Later — Further polish and any remaining archive sequences worth rewriting.
Educational rewrites only — no FrontPage HTML and no full raw image dump. Meta / messages: GitHub website-building-system under sites/bolinder-engines-co-uk/.