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Early 1950s Morris Minors etc had the bypass set-up too, but can you even get that type of filter any more?

I've seen those kits where the engine is fed clean oil, and although it's obviously a better system theoretically, is it superior to the more common 2CV filter in the return line?
Personally I just change the oil every year regardless...

Nice idea, but don't "E"s go the other way? Not like any Enfield tank I can recall, or any other tank, for that matter.

Looks like it was expensive when new, though.

Load of old tat. PM your email addy and I'll do you a favour and take it off your hands for a hundred quid. Deal?

In the case of BSA, Lady Docker's silver-plated Daimler...?

To be fair, the large singles which were AMC's bread and butter, were obsolete in the mid/ late 1950s, never mind into the 1960s, so to keep producing them with nothing new or viable on the drawing boards was commercial suicide.
But then "short-termism" is a blight of politicians (and certain older businesspeople) in this country.
Superb designers and engineers often led by blinkered bean-counters....

All those stories about "this country this" and "that country that" seem to change with the times and according to who's doing the telling.
Reminds me of that apocryphal story of the cowboy who went toe-to-toe with the Samurai "warrior" (if you could ever really term them as such).
The poor old cowboy was scared due to having heard those wonderful tales of the craftsman-made swords that "couldn't be resheathed until they'd drawn blood", made of the finest tempered steel, and all the rest, so when a quick death seemed imminent due to decapitation, he pulled out his cheap and cheerful monkey-metal Colt and shot him.
Once the "secret" of steel production was out, everyone did it, and probably the country which most advanced bearing ball production (as an example) was Nazi Germany...a case of necessity.

Tongue-in-cheek JBW, though with a lifetime spent in electrical engineering  I have never ever come across the @ symbol yet .
Not that it's of the slightest importance anyway.

There's a deeper significance to the fuel duty; so many people don't have to/won't pay into the various tax-gathering schemes the government uses that the catch-all schemes like booze, fags and fuel are the ever-reliable stand-by's.  Fuel is a necessity, no doubt about that, but ever increasing government spending means the duty won't be cut no matter what Mr Wilson etc may like to campaign for. Someone has to pay for the foreign wars/health needs/housing for....nah, I'm not even going to say anymore.....