bolinder-engines.co.uk · Stage 3b preview

Bolinder marine diesel engines

A heritage reference for historic Swedish Bolinder engines — the workhorses that powered many UK canal boats and barges.

Boat stories Photo gallery

Explore the site

Stage 3b adds a curated gallery and six rewritten boat stories alongside the Stage 3a reference pages. Still preview only — not the production domain.

Boat stories

Bekita, Secunda, Newcastle, Minnow, President, and Sandbach — craft that carried Bolinder power.

Open boat stories →

Gallery

Selected craft and engine photographs from the heritage archive (not the full dump).

Open gallery →

History & models

Swedish roots, UK waterways context, and family introductions for the 105x and semi-diesel lines.

History · Models

Manuals & FAQ

Document hub (metadata only) and common questions. PDFs stay offline until rights review.

Manuals · FAQ

Demos

Public JSON API, Workers AI Q&A, and contact form — the Stage 2 feature layer.

Open demos →

Roadmap

  1. Stage 1 — Confirmation site and custom-domain binding.
  2. Stage 2 — Feature demos (table, API, AI Q&A, form).
  3. Stage 3a — Structure and prose (history, models, manuals hub, FAQ).
  4. Stage 3b — Curated gallery and boat stories.
  5. Stage 3c — Document PDFs after rights clearance.
  6. Stage 4 — Further polish.

Production domain remains on the earlier Stage 1 site until you explicitly approve a fuller Stage 3 promotion. No archive binaries or FrontPage HTML are published here.