Originally Posted by
Less Hair
We had a starter option like this for the Renault R4 my parents owned .. The crank needed was mounted on the inside of the engine hood. It took quite some effort first and once the engine ran it had to be removed immediately.
Friends have a R4 that I worked on recently, still has the crank handle you mention and out of interest I tried using it (successfully) since I was used to such things.
I sold my early cars last year, they both used a crank handle, one exclusively. Interesting to consider that the younger of the two (Model A) was just four years older than the DC-3 when it was new .. the older (Model T) was of course the origin of the
Hucks Starter mentioned here. A good example of requiring minimal effort from mankind to make a much bigger noise, MBA types call it bootstrapping
FP