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Re: Whitworth tools

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Whitworth tools
From: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 92 12:09:56 pdt
>From the net awhile back:

>From: mlj8e@mljsg.pharm.Virginia.EDU (Michael Johnson)
>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 15:30:51 GMT
>Subject: Whitworth Deep Sockets
>Organization: University of Virginia
>Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.autos,rec.autos.tech

>I think that I have found a U.S. source for Whitworth Deep Sockets.
>Thanks to Pete Young from the U.K. who tracked down a U.S. Distributor
>for Draper and Elora Tools.  The supplier is
 
>    Scottish Imports Ltd
>    P.O. Box 549
>    150 Airport Drive, Unit 6
>    Westminster, Maryland 21157
>    (800)-762-5134
>
>               Draper
>   Size   Catalogue Number  Price U.S.$
>   1/4      25151             11.54
>   5/16     25169             11.54
>   3/8      25177             11.54
>   7/16     25185             11.54
>   1/2      25193             13.36
>   9/16     25200             13.36
>   5/8      25218             13.56
>
>I spoke with Mr. Mark Clark at Scottish Imports.  He claims that I
>should have these sockets in about a month.  If any of you are 
>interested you should give him a call.
>
>
--

P.S.  I've found that the few Whitworth fasteners I've ordered were of 
      extremely poor quality so you might want to consider replacement
      with metric or SAE.

Roland


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