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Make one from a bit of flat belting. Possibly start at an agricultural supplier or bearing and power transmission factors.

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Hi Angus, the best way is to get hold of some Agricultural creosote, brush it onto some timber, then lay the timber on the floors close to your concrete walls. The smell will deter most vermin to include Badgers, without hurting them.

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Logo on my spreader

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Thanks Alan, it’s nice to see a contemporary advert and the cross section diagram. Apparently chosen British manufactured items were exhibited at the Design centre in Haymarket, London where the public could go and see (and presumably order) them. The product could then carry the triangular Design centre sticker.

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What a wonderful cover photograph on the The Cultivator this month! Think it’s the best yet? Lovely old tractor, great bit of ploughing, a sunny day as backdrop. What more do you need.
Makes me take a note to check back on previous ‘covers’ again, and read through some of those old copies and articles.
The second note, to check through those articles to see if there have been many articles on ploughing good practice, advice, tricks of the trade, and suchlike? Information on setting up Ploughs? Lists even, of some of the classic old, and new, ploughs. The tried and trusted tools of the trade, the methods, the tractors that pulled them, and the artists that turned the soil as beautifully as that pictured on the Cultivator 146, April 2023

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The Royal Warrant, is not what it seems, just by selling a product or working within the Royal family will not cut it.
For a start you have to pay for it! So you could say a money spinner, but the fore’s out way the losses.
Obviously there are rules, the office which deal with it, is called the Board of the Green Cloth and has offices in Palace Street London.
Your paragraph with Greens and 1894 is interesting as the warrant for the Queen would have course been Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales would have been Prince Edward, who later would have become King Edward V11.
The Hall & Duck Trust also houses a Green’s Silens Messor which was given to Queen Victoria for her Golden Anniversary, and was used at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

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my copy arrived yesterday

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Hi Angus, just found your reg number, your machine was made in July 1957 and according to Ransomes records that we hold the engine should be a Villiers 98 cc code BCH 363 Mk 2 spec

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Angus what does it say on the registration number, it should be prefixed with either one letter or two
Regards Andrew

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Hi All.
Have finished the pump now and it’s pumping great. Thanks for everyone’s help.

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Shame to sell it , lovely and original

Yes, unmolested and useable, but there comes a time in life when it’s better that they go to someone who will enjoy them, than gathering dust in the shed.
I enjoy sorting them more than hoarding them.
There were two trailer loads where that Minor came from!

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Here is the full number. 81953 943709 5910060

Also a picture of the Briggs and Stratton tag, I think it was originally green and painted white. The tag is above the green but below the white.

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Here are some pics of the output shaft.If you need anything else just ask.

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I can’t help you with the PDF booklet for your machine, I’ve searched around plenty myself looking for general information on the lineage, history, and Honda model progression down over the years. Without much success. Apart from link I was given to their own Honda website, that has good information on their first tillers.
Where do the F90 & F100 come in early 70’s, 60’s??
Does your tiller have differential lock? Selection of gears? What hp is it even!?
It’s a fine looking machine and I’m always shopping around myself, looking for similar or newer versions of these multi usage Honda tillers.

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Reading the above I have to admit to loosing the plot a bit. The OP would seem to know what he’s talking about but it’s as well to understand a few basics.You don’t actually mention the brands of engine , so I’m assuming Briggs.
The ignition is entirely self contained and does not require any external power ( the OP already touches on this and its expensive consequences) The only connection between the ignition coils and the ignition switch is one terminal that grounds it when the switch is off. Buried in one of the Briggs manuals is an instruction to perform 50+ on and off checks that said kill terminal never becomes live due to an internal fault.
In addition to the kill wire from the coils to the kill terminal of the switch , there may also be a diode harness connecting the two coils which stops them interfering with one another . Failure or absence of this harness can produce some strange consequence, such as running on one cylinder or continue to run on one or with the key in the off position. Again, buried in one of the manuals is a little chart giving the various combinations of symptoms from diode failures .
For what it’s worth at this stage, my best advice is – disconnect the kill wire from the coils and add your own kill wire, which by grounding, will be your only way of stopping the engine . Check out the diode harness and renew if faulty . Then fire up the engine and check that it runs on both cylinders and stops on both when your kill wire is grounded. If it performs correctly you then know that the ignition is ok.
Now don’t reconnect the original kill wire until you have ascertained that none of the alterations, additional relays etc, are introducing a spurious power feed to the ignition kill circuit.
Then with the aid of a wiring diagram, Check out the charging circuit. Note that the square box with the yellow wires is the rectifier regulator and needs 9 volts to operate . If there’s a flat battery and the machine is jump started , the machine will never charge. Start with a fully charged battery. Also note that the rectifier regulators are specific to the alternator type and capacity. Again, there are charts showing the various options of alternators and their appropriate rectifier regulators.

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