All sorts of stories about the One Eleven how about this one, if the starter whouln,t engauge the engineer would go to the engine open the cowling and hit it with a rawhide hammer and that did the trick on many occasions.
Winessed that on more than one occaision at LGW, a/c pushed back off stand, 1 eng wouldn't start so a/c called engineering who sent a chap out, eng opened fwd hold and pulled out the set of steps kept in there, then proceeded to open the cowls of the offending engine and give it a "technical tap"
