Never mind, a crank of the starting handle, and we were back up and running.
Ever since I took up diving, back in the days of black and white when the van had a starting handle, I had been forced to endure the same rhetorical question.
It's rather like offering refunds if the starting handle on your Model T Ford breaks or an eight-year-old urchin fails to sweep your chimney satisfactorily.
The girl's whole body wobbled as she industriously turned a big iron handle, like the starting handle of an old fashioned car.
I remember a man in the pub one morning with the starting handle of the lister engine tucked under his oilskin.