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motorcycle engines based on a design by Peter Burt and L.J. McCollum. In a half-page advert in Motor Cycle magazine in 1922 they encouraged readers to contact them at
Anniesland, Glasgow, for more information, or contact the manufacturers currently offering their 350cc single cylinder engine, naming
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and a dome sight for aircraft. During World War I there was a problem with the supply of binoculars to the armed forces and apart from the
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