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NickH
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 07:17 am: | 
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When approximately dating engines, I assume most of us are working from the widely circulated list of serial numbers the footer of which reads "Stuart Turner History data, 29/11/98, A.V. Mettem"
Dooes anybody know the origins of this informative list, was it compiled from the factory day books, and who was Mr. Mettem? In any type of historical research the uncritical use of secondary sources can be a dangerous practice and it would be useful to know more about the provenance of this particular piece of data. |
timmulvey
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Username: timmulvey
Post Number: 143
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 06:16 am: |
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Nick,
Adrian is the Managing Director of Stuart Turner Limited. While they basically make pumps etc these days the company has a very extensive archive of Stuart engine info. Accordingly, the engine production from that archive material. However, the books with the buyer, delivery ifo and specs relating to each of the individual engine are held by Fairways and they took over the Stuart enginer parts side of the business about the 1970's. Stuart Turner Limited always advertised that if you quote your engine number when you order parts then they would be able to access your exact engine specs so the right parts could be shipped etc. Accordingly, that's why (I presume) that the those books went to Fairways Marine. They also have the (casting) patterns. David Pickof of Fairways may like to add more or correct me on any inaccuracies. |
NickH
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| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 08:47 am: |
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Thanks Tim,
I also recieved the same info on uk.rec.engines.stationary - stupid of me really not to have simply googled mettem and "stuart turner".
I have lived within 20 miles or so of Henley since the late 1960's and the showroom window used to be a real draw to me on family visits - nothing interesting to see there now. When later I beagan to actively collect engines, I contacted the factory but never got much in the way of information (a nice penny booklet from the 1930's and some photostats of the models catalogue) - I rather got the impression that all the interesting stuff had gone to Fairways. |
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