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Well, its been confirmed…….. I was not thinking clearly earlier. I thought that if I turned the back plate through 180 degrees, that the flywheel would no longer be covering the points. Hmmmm, a definate blonde moment. The whole assembly moves doesn’t it, Its exactly the same, just opposite where it was! However, its not all bad news, The coil is now at the top left, where almost every picture shows it to be. The HT lead now exits opposite side to the exhaust, and not under it. I think its right now, anyone confirm this for me please?

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I dont know about the original post but this mower to me is only rare because they made them by modern methods and were classed as throwaway when made. A friend of mine has a mower that I would call rare. it is a 1922 atco, in pieces at the moment. The machine was purchased and solely owned by a lady authoress.The machine is original and needs an expert to put it back together.I can find more details if anyone is interested. The ATCO brand was local to me Sheffield and in Eckington Derbyshire there is a road junction named as ATCO corner.I would like to know what th AT stands for?

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the good bit would be getting inside the liner standing on the top of piston at the bottom of its stroke and with a paint scraper in your hand start and decoke it.

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wristpin thanks for the diagrams they will be valuble if I need to go in there.and andy,will try the wrigley club and see if they have anything on this arrangement. thanks again. big round of applause.

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Attaching a link to a general parts illustration and a bit about governor adjustment. Was going to include carburettor adjustment but although there are two types in the manual, neither are the one in your images!

EDIT – the Link has disappeared!!! try again!

Second edit – disappeared again!!!!!

Third edit – give up!! May be try it as an image

One last shot, just going to paste the url without using the “link” or “attachment” buttons

https://www.dropbox.com/s/suhkqdsleytpbfo/Villiers%20Mk250001.pdf

BINGO!

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Swamp pads reglued and primed

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brilliant. bit of a grey area here up north.

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many years ago I went down to Portsmouth and had a look around a sub. very interesting crampt and stunk of diesel oil. the galley was only big enough for one cook in attendance but to cook for say 100 blokes must have been worth a watch.

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Whoops, missed those, so it is a slide carb with the auxiliary butterfly controlled governor ! Found some Villiers gen on Mk25 governors which may be useful and will post it when back with the desk top puter.

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how do you fancy doing a recky to see if its worth salvaging. if the showman sees it he will be scooting along at low tide on his wheel horse for the engine . argh the engines missing looks as if he beat us ray

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the ww1 german sub laid on its side in the medway when tides out.

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seen what?

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I think we will get by…

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that’s it paul you have already got it,you will be ok

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Hello Nigel, we are still here in the deep south, have a good Christmas too mate !!

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