John,
Perhaps Paul is lying low following his recent article in the latest edition of
"British Motoring" (Formerly Moss Motoring) in which he
recounts a story with none other than yourself ending up with a bloody nose in
the Mens Room at Berkley Square!
Makes for interesting reading! :)
Joe (C)
John Macartney wrote:
>
> >From time to time, it seems the question of fuel surge in Stromberg float
>chambers raises
> its ugly head on this list. Entirely unrelated to that particular issue, I
>have been doing
> some research about the origins of the Stromberg carburetter and what has
>come to my
> attention leaves me feeling more than a little cautious about it from an
>historical
> viewpoint. Given that our hobby as a whole can be something of an amalgam of
>stories and
> hearsay (with the odd dollop of complete tripe masquerading as absolute and
> incontrovertible fact making its occasional curtain call), I have a niggling
>suspicion
> that the same is possibly arising on the prototype Strommy.
> What I have uncovered this far (and not all that much seems to exist) is that
>Harry
> Webster (former Engineering Director of Standard Triumph) appears to be
>accorded with
> rather a lot of the laurels for either its invention or its invention and
>development.
> While in no way wishing to discredit Mr. Webster for any of his past
>achievements, some of
> the very limited info I have so far managed to turn up, suggests the
>accolades to date in
> his favour may possibly be a little mis-directed.
> I feel there are one or two people on this list who may have an alternative
>and hopefully
> more accurate opinion and it occurs to me that young Mr. Richardson (among
>others) who
> incidentally by his silence of late, appears to be deep in a foxhole
>somewhere in the
> ether, might have another view? Whoever has it, I'd rather like to have my
>darkness
> lightened a little. Can anyone help?
>
> Jonmac
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