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Thanks Jason, Duncan and Ian for your prompt responses.

The Jan/Feb copy of Model Engineer that I ordered arrived this morning. The article in it gave me more confidence in the reliability of the soldered shim method than the posts on the thread Jason suggested.

However, I do fancy trying the method Ian describes. The wall thickness obtained on my Boxford may be an issue!

Regards, Mike

Having just joined the forum after a number of years buying MEW, I browsed through the various topics and found this one. I feel I can add some history.

Thomas George John was born in 1880 in Pembroke Dock, won scholarships to the Royal College of Science, was a Whitworth Exhibitioner and worked for various well know companies before buying Holley Brothers in February 1919, mainly for the premises and skills in Coventry.

An early venture was involvement with Stafford Auto Scooters Ltd in the motor scooter, the Stafford Mobile Pup. The frame was supplied by The Birmingham Motor Guild and the engine was built and fitted by T.G.John Ltd.

Apparently Mr Stafford had a shop at the bottom end of the TGJohn works in Hertford St.

TGJ went on to found Alvis Ltd for the manufacture of Alvis motor cars.

The above is a synopsis of the early pages of the book produced by the Alvis Register entitled The Vintage Alvis.

Two members of the Register own Pups and one was part way through restoring his.

I would like to restore two oil pressure gauges for a 1912 car.

At this time the gauge needle was usually connected directly to the bourdon tube, ie no gearing. This meant the tube had to be very thin. Both my gauges came with broken tubes.

The editor of MEW tells me that the making of bourdon tubes for model engines was a topic on the web site a while back.

I have failed to locate the thread using the web site's search engine.

Can anyone please help?

Mike Robinson