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Subject: [Healeys] Smiths Instruments in Big Healey
From: ah at jharper.demon.co.uk (John Harper)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:29:41 +0100
References: <193803.47954.qm@web180616.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <658730.49243.qm@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
I cannot find the reference but I have a vague recollection that one has 
Fahrenheit markings and the other Centigrade. Mind you I could be 
wrong!!

Regards

>Hello Michael;  After checking with a number of current supplier catalogues
>and confirming with the original Smiths Instruments catalogue of 1962, both
>GD1500/29 and GD1500/30 are listed.  The current suppliers give /29 and the
>Smiths /30.  The best I can say is you seem to have the correct safety gauge
>[oil pressure/water temperature].  The pdf files need to be updated to
>indicate this; I just need to find a good original information source.  What I
>don't want to do is perpetuate any errors; that is why I try to use original
>documentation from 'the day'.  :-)
>--Scott Morris; Simcoe, Ontario, Canada                   - Keep Smiling,
>Murphy Lives
>
>--- On Fri, 6/10/11, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net> wrote:<<
>Scott,  After inspecting the instruments I have had rebuilt for my BN2
>restoration I find the combo gauge (oil & water) numbered GD1500-29 and the
>one listed in the PDF as GD1500-30 for the BN2.  What gauge do I have?  Will
>it still work correctly?  Mike MacLean  56 BN2   60 AN5 >>
-- 
John Harper

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