Welcome to the site for the Totham Flyer aero engined car
The story of how The Totham Flyer came to be built is a not very exciting in itself, but the design and build threw up some quite unique and interesting problems.
It all started when a friend of mine happened to mention that he was going to sell his Rolls Royce Meteor engine, he had bought it from a military surplus dealer as a fully REME rebuilt and crated engine.
At the time I was the owner of both a RR Merlin and a RR Griffon aero engine, that I had rebuilt and trailer mounted for ground running, so it made sense at the time to buy the Meteor because in many ways it is a non super charged Merlin, adapted for use in a number of Military applications such as The Cromwell, Challenger and not least the mighty Centurion and Conqueror main battle tanks.
I had the engine in storage for a number of years until an associate of mine asked if I would consider reworking the engine and sell it to him for possible use in a wheeled vehicle of some kind.
Having given it some thought I felt that it could be a project that I would like to under take in its entirety, and so the head scratching began.
GOSFIELD TEST TRACK THREE YEARS LATER
I will try to tell the story of the Totham Flyer using many of the hundreds of photos that I took during the build.