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I had the same problem with tyres . I ended up buying 4-10 – 6
Moto Quad Bike on Ebay. 192817710560 . Not the same size as an original tyre .
However it fits and there is clearance if you fit the wheels on the wide setting.
I have always used the wide setting as most of my wheels have repair bolts with nuts.
Countersunk head of bolt to wheel hub. I went for this tyre to get the machine to work and not as an original show piece.
Photo show clearances on a mk3 .

Regards. DaveT

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I gave it a good go this afternoon with a puller and it just wont budge also seen a crack running through the alui casting so going to have to look for a new engine which is gutting

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With all the info that you’ve been given you should be ok but if not take your existing belt to a local bearing and power transmission part ( belt) dealer and get them to match it on their measuring gauge.

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According to the 1959 Ferodo Belt Catalogue the Gunsmith takes flat belt W34 which has an inside circumference of 38 inches with one and a half inches width and one eighth inch thickness. Hope this helps. They were £1.18/6 in 1959!

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Thank you for taking the time to give me the extra information…as a farmer’s daughter I was the youngster “employed” to do these jobs 😂. This definitely would have made hoeing the sugar beet easier than hand hoeing. I can just imagine my Dad’s face if I turn up saying I want to plant some sugar beet in the veg plot to try it out 😊.

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Hi Charlie
Thank you for taking the time to provide and explanation and link to other photos, it has helped firm up the image in our heads. Despite my Dad farming his whole life, he had never come across anything like this before. I’m kinda wishing we’d had one when I was growing up…it would have saved a lot of the hand hoeing that I did over the years (including copious fields of sugar beet) 😂.

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Hi. Fascinating to learn the type of steam mower in the photo Tony G shared with the group. I would love to see the better picture of the mower in steam. Did it require coal to produce the steam and have a small furnace which needed stoking up. How long would it run on a firing up? So many questions. Sorry. I’m always curious. I only hoped to add some information to the discussion which would help. I’m guessing the man with the magnificent bowler hat must be someone like the land agent. It would be wonderful to learn the names of other characters in the photo. Yes, I am the author of the book about the remarkable Mary Alice Berners. What a character she was! Her father, of course, was Charles Berners. I have just written another book, “The Berners Family of Woolverstone”, which looks at the line of the Woolverstone Berners from around 1600 and one Josias Berners who bought shares in the New River Company in 1628 and a 25 acre farm in London, off what is now Oxford Street, in 1654. Two strands that generated considerable wealth for the family.

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The original question was about the machine in the back ground, which I answered, I admit I did go on to try and identify the characters in the photo and earlier this year I did speak to Tony the originator of this question, my question to you Simonp are you a family member or the author of the book about the odd daughter of the Berners?
As for the steam mower I have a better picture of it in steam, and surprisingly enough, the machine still exists to this day, but alas I’m not going to divulge its whereabouts here!

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By the time you have added travelling time to the post office, and packing materials S T Bishop is a very good price for you, and also they have a very good track record, S T Bishops Son now runs the buisness but they still have a lot of dead stock hanging around, so probalby will be able to supply your bottom blade

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Almost certainly imperial and RL5 ( one brand’s number) but post your imperial measurements.

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Thanks I’ll have a look

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They’ve got premises and and a business to run. The man on eBay is probably working in his shed and or garage, and , dare I say, it not paying business rates, vat , insurance, wages, national insurance and tax. Not to mention depreciation and maintenance on the grinder. Even a bit of profit!
Won’t ask what you do or did for a living.

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S T Bishop quoted £53. A big difference from £22, how do they justify it

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Hi. Thank you for the beautiful photograph of the group of people at Woolverstone. The comments were interesting. However, the identification of people in the photo is questionable. I believe the gentleman identified as Charles Berners, second from the left, is in fact William Messenger, head gardener at Woolverstone Hall from 1893. Charles Berners was born in 1842 and so would have been 52 at the time of this photograph. I would add that Woolverstone Park Cricket Club completed its first season in 1890, which is documented. I am unsure that the gentleman identified as John A Berners on the far right is indeed him. He was born in 1869 which would make him 25 at the date of this photo and somehow that doesn’t ring true. I have attached a photo of William Messenger. And a poor cropped copy of J A Berners from 1900. Should you follow this further, an England 11 v Woolverstone Park 1899, in Lords Archive, has William Messenger as an umpire.

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Thanks I’ll give them a call

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