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SV8Predator

Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 137 Location: Further up the creek
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:31 am Post subject: History of Gunson tools |
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I'm trying to research the history of Gunson Tools, a brand that is still going strong after all these years.
My understanding is that the company was started by Granville Unsworth, but I am finding it very difficult to come up with any information at all.
Does anyone have any information they could add? _________________ 2000 Jaguar XJ8 4.0 LWB
1974 Jensen Interceptor Mk III
1969 Jensen Interceptor Mk I |
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Phil - Nottingham

Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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It grew by acquiring the DIY products of the 1950's car mags eg the SQPCR Tappet adjuster or something with some of those letters in its name. There are others too _________________ Rover P2
Rover P4
Rover P5 & P5B
Land Rover S2 & S3
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2117 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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I've recently purchased one of those....to replace the one I have lost via the mists of time |
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MVPeters

Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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SPQR = Small Profit Quick Return - as I understand it.
Good products - I had their tappet adjuster & the glass spark plug. Was the carb balancer theirs too?
With the benefit of experience I could have done without them, but they were useful at the time. _________________ Mike - MVPeters at comcast.net
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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I fitted an SPQR remote change to my first Mini Van and again to my first Mini car, but within a short time I fitted an 1100 and later a 1300 unit. |
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Phil - Nottingham

Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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I think the carb balancer was SPQR and Colourtune. Have them both - I forgot about the Mini remote change _________________ Rover P2
Rover P4
Rover P5 & P5B
Land Rover S2 & S3
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baconsdozen

Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2117 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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I've had a Gunson dwell meter [with other capabilities] for something around 30 years now.....the scales are a bit bleached, and the wires can be a bit stiff now, but it still works!
A good-buy has been a Gunson strobe too.
A Gunson exhaust sniffer [what would you call it?] I found to be rather long-winded in its use....better to go to Bogg Bros at East Lutton.
The colour tune plug I have found to be of little effective use....especially as I've mastered setting up twin SU's...[a cheapo digital calliper being a useful tool]....
Then there is the Gunson compression tester..works better now the hose has been re-crimped, and a new O-ring fitted.
SO, I guess, I have placed much reliance on the instrument side of Gunson's range.. |
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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I've had an Eezibleed for years, and it has done every thing required of it, i.e. made bleeding brakes bleeding easy.  |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2117 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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....Aah yes, I also have an Easibleeed..forgot that [comes with having a car with road 'n cable brakes?]....I use a tyre with no ore than about 5 psi in it....and the range of reservoir adapters has been pretty limited [none would fit a Skoda, so one had to be made!]....but, it works, providing one has an unlimited source of brake fluid? [Halfords, 5 litre can, for me].....I always went around freeing off all the bleed nipples [can one call them that nowadays?]first....just in case things overflowed. |
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SV8Predator

Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 137 Location: Further up the creek
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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So no one has any idea of the history of the company then? _________________ 2000 Jaguar XJ8 4.0 LWB
1974 Jensen Interceptor Mk III
1969 Jensen Interceptor Mk I |
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SV8Predator

Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 137 Location: Further up the creek
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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baconsdozen wrote: | I used to sell their stuff,not any more. |
Why is that? _________________ 2000 Jaguar XJ8 4.0 LWB
1974 Jensen Interceptor Mk III
1969 Jensen Interceptor Mk I |
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Phil - Nottingham

Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Normal practice nothing sinister - there are the public records
If you go to Companies House BETA you will find all the accounts etc of the parent company THE TOOL CONNECTION LTD (also own Laser tools & Kamasa)
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https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/01968900/filing-history
The key shareholder also owns the Gunson name _________________ Rover P2
Rover P4
Rover P5 & P5B
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petelang
Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 475 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:01 am Post subject: |
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As an aside:
SPQR is an initialism of a Latin phrase Senātus Populus que Rōmānus ("The Roman Senate and People", or more freely as "The Senate and People of Rome"; Classical Latin: [sɛˈnaː.tʊs pɔpʊˈlʊs.kᶣɛ roːˈmaː.nʊs]), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and used as an official emblem of the modern-day comune (municipality) of Rome. It appears on Roman currency, at the end of documents made public by inscription in stone or metal, in dedications of monuments and public works, and was emblazoned on the vexilloids of the Roman legions.
The phrase commonly appears in Roman political, legal and historical literature, including the speeches of Cicero and Ab Urbe Condita Libri ("Books from the Founding of the City") of Livy.
Courtesy of Wikipedia, but I remembered it from Latin history...
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goneps
Joined: 18 Jun 2013 Posts: 601 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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alastairq wrote: | ....Aah yes, I also have an Easibleeed..forgot that [comes with having a car with road 'n cable brakes?]....I use a tyre with no ore than about 5 psi in it....and the range of reservoir adapters has been pretty limited [none would fit a Skoda, so one had to be made!]....but, it works, providing one has an unlimited source of brake fluid? [Halfords, 5 litre can, for me].....I always went around freeing off all the bleed nipples [can one call them that nowadays?]first....just in case things overflowed. |
None of the Ezibleed caps fits a Morris 8, either! Fortunately I had a spare cap to adapt (moral—never throw anything away).
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