As a result, the engines with proper planned maintenance and overhaul can be operated 24/7. The engines are capable of continuous operation at prime, not standby power. Over recent years Lister Petter has changed ownership but it is proud to remain a 100% British owned business with all of its manufacturing and assembly still within its home county of Gloucestershire. From the freezing sub-zero temperatures of China and Northern Russia, to the scorching heat of the deserts in the Middle East, India and the vast plains of Africa. Lister Petter engines are adapted to a diverse range of applications including generating sets, pumps, agricultural machinery, construction plant and emergency equipment operating reliably in all conceivable ambient conditions. This has been the back bone of the company and has pushed everybody involved in Lister Petter to achieve more and deliver nothing but the best. Our engines and generating sets can be found on every continent and in almost every country in the world. In some places an engine is not just an engine, its a ‘Lister’. or on the web at Contact Tom Jamboretz at 416 Larkhill Ct., St.Over the years Lister Petter has become a household name for many companies worldwide. Edgington, Lodgewood Farm, Hawkersridge, Westbury, Wilts BA13 4LA, U.K. Edgington (focus on European engines).Īll of these are available from David W. “Lister D – Type Restoration” from Stationary Engine, a U.K.The Lister D Story 1926 – 1964 by David W.I am looking forward to showing the engine this summer and looking for a Lister diesel at the local engine shows.įor those interested in restoring a Lister D, I would recommend the following sources: After a little battle with ignition timing and governor settings, it runs very well at 600 RPM. This is a 2-wheel type made from drawings I found in a book on the Lister D. Then, as it weighs 298 pounds, I decided to make a cart for it. I cleaned off all of the old paint and re-painted it with the correct color. The various repairs I made were to the connecting rod bushing and piston rings, as well as grinding the valves, welding a new gas tank and reworking the gravity feed carburetor. Somehow, it came back to me from where it had been hiding in Amsterdam. That did not go as well as expected, as it was lost in the mail for five months. Friends and I tried to repair it without much success so I bit the bullet and mailed it to a repair facility in England. I wanted the proper direct drive ML high-tension magneto, so I searched the Internet and found one on eBay for what I thought to be a reasonable price. This engine is hopper cooled, though Lister did make some with auxiliary thermo-siphon water tanks and others that were radiator cooled with belt-driven fans. All of this runs in an enclosed oil sump. It protrudes a bit to drive a fork, which in turn drives the camshaft, the governor and the high tension ML magneto.
The crankpin is located on the end of the crankshaft to take the connecting rod. It has a large carrier with two big ball bearings. One of the unusual characteristics of this model is that the crankshaft only has main bearings on one side of the connecting rod. He found all of the parts for me as there are still a lot of new and used parts for this model in the U.K. I located (through the Internet) a past employee of Lister in England who is an active collector of old engines. After disassembling and finding what was wrong, I needed to find some parts. The Lister D that I bought had been worked on but apparently without success. Some of the more common names are Aermotor, Associated (Amanco in England), Fairbanks-Morse, International and McCormick-Deering. However, many of the lower-priced engines from the U.S. Not many English engines came to the U.S. The hand crank drives off the camshaft giving it a 2:1 ratio. The Lister has a 3-inch bore and a 3-inch stroke with a 5:1 compression ratio. I bought it from a Michigan man at the 2005 Tri-State Gas Engine and Tractor Show in Portland, Ind., and it now resides in the St. Apparently it was re-tagged and sold again. It subsequently found its way to Toronto, Canada, and was given a new brass tag from R.A. My engine was built in 1929, and according to records in England, it was shipped to Rangoon, Burma, in East Asia.
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