Railton Fairmile 37 engine identification

Engine is probably a 36 as Railton bought up unsold chassis at the end of the year. If it has a serial number on the engine it would be stamped in the top of the block between the first two exhaust ports.

BTW, the 36 engines were the last to have 1bbl carbs on them, the 37s had 2 bbl carbs.

The Railton (most of the Railtons were built by Coachcraft) folks did not track the cars by engine number. They used Body # And Chasis #. They were also big on the initial registration number handed out by the English government. My Coachcraft book can give us some good identification on this. Also, my Car number is 643679 and it was built in late September of 1936. My Registration number was EPH317. Now with all this said, none if it is important because the cars would go to Coachcraft and start a build but they did not run in sequence. There is a completion date in the book but no start date (depending on the delivery date of the Railton, it most likely started the process ten months eairler. My engine is a 36 but with the Railton you are speaking of, the engine would be the same as mine. There was little diference between the 36 and 37 chasis that was delivered by Hudson so the data from Park would apply. Hudson engines were silver. Not sure what color the Railtons were?

I would suggest that you go on line and google the Railton Owners Club. They are across the pond but they know all the sources for these cars. If you give me the numbers on the title I can check the car out in the Coachcraft book. They post all the data and even if Coachcraft did not build the car, we can trace where it was manufactured.

The WTN had a tech bulletin, as a center fold, on how to build one of these baffels. TS 84-2, Rebuilding the water distribution manifold.

This bulletin is in the online library - click on "Other H-E-T Literature" and then on Hudson Technical Bulletins. Vol 1. It's a little fuzzy but going by an old plate should be able to figure it out.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN