Motor Boys

Motor Boys

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23 February 2025 at 00:17 #785037
bernard towers
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Anyone know whats happened to the Motor Boys site?
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23 February 2025 at 06:54 #785044
JasonB
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Modelenginenews seems to be down and I’m not sure who has been funding that for the last few years after Ron’s death. Maybe they have calle dit time or hopefully are just a bit late in paying for another year. You can probably find most of the content on Webarchive.

Adrain seems to have taken over where MEN left off with Adriansmodelaeroengines.
23 February 2025 at 07:15 #785045
Diogenes
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It’d be a shame if that disappeared.
23 February 2025 at 07:28 #785046
derek hall 1
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On 23 February 2025 at 07:15 Diogenes Said:

It’d be a shame if that disappeared.

Yes I agree, it would be awful if it all was lost. It was a huge site with loads of information that Ron created until sadly he left us for the great workshop in the sky.

I wonder how much it cost to keep the site active?
23 February 2025 at 11:18 #785117
Roderick Jenkins
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Ron recognised that neither a website or himself were immortal and made a copy of the whole MEN news website that was available as a DVD, together with the 2 collections of engine construction drawings. Ron’s valedictory message suggested that he wanted to make the engine drawings available to all but I think he ran out of time to clarify this so the copyright issues seem to be unclear. I bought the DVD from Ron so have access to all of it. The whole DVD is 1.8 Gb which is not that large by modern standards so would fit on a small SD card.

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