Richard, That engine is about half the size of the four Listers I used to fire up on occasion... (-: Each engine had a VERY heavy flywheel and four cylinders with individual de-compressors, it only needed the one nearest the starting handle to be flicked off for that cylinder to fire up and give enough time to then flick the remaining three to get the whole show on the road.... I have had to fire up all four engines in quick succession by hand cranking, as part of a semi regular test process, given they were for emergency service duty.... though all had automated battery start facilities too.... I doubt I could manage that process today.. In time they were all scrapped and replaced with self destruct Italian turbo diesels of the half the physical size.... sigh..! And they ask why I choose to call myself a Luddite...!!!
Had a twin cyl 2 litre Volvo marine diesel on my little yacht, with no hand start facility, a situation which ever perturbed me, but to fit and use a hand start was just not practical, but we ever had either an anchor, dingy or sails, should it fail to fire up, in over 20 years of sailing it never ever let us down.
