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Cranko · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

The plot thickens

MooseMan · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject:

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Would it be safe to assume that the round oilers & early safety valves (without the arm) are leftovers from the wormar days & were only sold with 'bowmans' until stocks had been used up. Individual picture plates for adverts would probably have been re-used for the printing of catalogues etc year after year if they were in good condition, as they were probably expesive to produce (no cut, paste & copy function from a jpeg file back then).

MooseMan · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject:

Could be true for the oiler taps, but the Wormar SV is a completely different size and thread from the Bowman one.......
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Bégé · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:48 am Post subject:

I just see

Under the base from my M122,
there is a label (of Chasteam) marked on 1934
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MooseMan · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

I guess that that is a possible date....in truth, it is very hard to completely accurately date Bowman engines, unless you have a box with a sales receipt. The only engines that are dateable are some of the locos (by the shape of the conrods) and the late production engines (M175 and M180)
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Bégé · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject:

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Bégé · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: