ORIGINAL: spaceworm
It looks a bit like my McCoy .09 Diesel from 1953 or so. Red fins and slanted intake and all. Do you know which engine came first? Thanks.
Richard/Club Saito #635
There were dozens of small diesel engines with a similar configuration produced during the 1950-60's.
Most likely they were all inspired by the remarkable British Elfin 149 diesel first introduced in 1950.
While the McCoy small diesels were nice engines they were regrettably a dead end in model engine development except perhaps for their CP design being the inspiration for the DDD heads.
The DC Darts were a direct development of the Allbon range of engines. The story is related on the MAN site.
I have three DC and one Allbon Dart and I'd judge the latter to be the best. Like the McCoy diesels some DC versions of the Dart are notorious for breaking crankpins.
