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« on: May 03, 2021, 01:06:38 PM »
I can get very close, Leon, but not quite claim the cigar.
One engine, #290, was sent to Adelaide. It was ordered on 12 May, 1922, and despatched on the 19th, to Roy Hill & Co, in Adelaide.
Subsequent research showed that Roy Hill & Co became Roy Hill and Sons, and were suppliers to the Adelaide motor trade. They had a link to Empire Cycles through Charles Ramsay, who apparently was a manager of both firms. No demonstrable link to Elliots, although the dates match very nicely. Despatch Anniesland in May, arrive Adelaide August or September.
Would be fairly sure it was a one-off.
However..... Warren maintained that Allparts had a V twin B&S as a window display circa 1937. A then 13 year old engine thought worthy of a window display. Hard to imagine it then being scrapped; is it under an Adelaide bench somewhere?