Marston block...long shot!

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Re: Marston block...long shot!

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If i was working there a few "extras" would have been made :wink:
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There were plenty of extras made trouble is they have already been sold at a premium :shock:

Now come clean we are wanting to know what your up to! Might know where there's a block and exhaust but can't say :wink:
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I am intrigued as well.........................

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I doubt they made a lot of extras, Marston had a very "modern" production facility they even did time & motion studies on the component production, these included fettling time, sorry nothing on the cylinders.

The costs of machining a bare casting to a finished cylinder were considerable & putting 50 on the shelf might well have taken them out of the profit side of the line into the loss side, in their new outboard division.

And I can't belive British Seagull when they took over, would want to keep spares on the shelf that didn't fit any of their product range, more likley in the middle of a major resession they would assemble as many motors they could from the Marston spares holding, to get some money try to recoup some of their investment.
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:wink:
Taspiper wrote:There were plenty of extras made trouble is they have already been sold at a premium :shock:

Might know where there's a block and exhaust but can't say :wink:
Dont believe you :wink:
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Is it not amazing what can be found at the back of the shed :shock:

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That will get them going!!

Thats a hell of a shed you have there Rene :D
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Rene

Totally COOL!

Now, Mate, just remember to have this sort of thing in the background of any Seagull pics posted from now on.

Cat and Dog pics included?

Takes the load off me with Voyers etc :lol:

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:twisted: :evil: :(
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