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Blue M
United Kingdom
1474 Posts |
 Posted - 11/03/2022 : 06:39:12
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Does anyone know who made the CK Spares "Club" crankshafts?
Ian
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tholden
United Kingdom
1638 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 10:09:09
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Ask Philip B-P but I think it was Guildford Engineering.
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1487 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 11:48:57
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No, I don't think it was Guildford Engineering. I am sure (or fairly sure) that it was David Something Camshafts but I cannot remember what the "something" is. It will probably come back to me later today.
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1487 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 11:58:39
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My last remaining brain call has finally woken up after a lie-in today. The name I was groping for is David Newman Camshafts. Based in Kent and still in business as far as I can tell.
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cryrnr
United Kingdom
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cryrnr
United Kingdom
214 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 12:00:28
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| Colin - You answered your own question whilst I was typing my response! Regards, Neil |
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tholden
United Kingdom
1638 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 12:30:03
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David Newman are a brilliant camshaft manufacturer but not sure if they ever made crankshafts.
I think there may have been another company near Guildford who also made the club cranks but believe they went out of business.
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2034 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 15:36:59
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I wonder if David Newman was related in some way to John Newman of Phoenix Crankshafts?
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1487 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2022 : 16:15:29
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Phil B-P is the only person who can give full chapter and verse about the Club cranks, but I don't think that he is active on the MMM Forum. I was only involved on the fringes of C.K. Spares but seem to recall that David Newman were branching outa bit from their usual work and they had to restrict there production to the smaller 4 cylinder shafts.
Eventually, Gordon Allen moved in to continue the manufacture of MMM shafts and his firm eventually developed into Phoenix. At the time Laystall were still willing to run off small batches of very high quality crankshafts - at a price. The names of Laystall and Gordon Allen still appear in the world of crank makers, but I believe that they are nothing to do with the original firms. |
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Tony Dolton
United Kingdom
372 Posts |
Posted - 14/03/2022 : 19:03:49
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Colin, sounds as if you and I need to collar Phil B.P at the next pub meeting.
I have raised this topic before as I have one of the later batch in my J2. I understand the earlier batches were somewhat suspect. I also believe Nigel Musselwhite was involved at some stage.
I certainly believed mine was made by Guildford Autos, but can’t remember where that info came from. |
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Oz34
United Kingdom
2560 Posts |
Posted - 14/03/2022 : 20:11:01
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Slightly off at a tangent, who would have done camshafts for CK. I still have somewhere a P one re-profiled to NE spec.
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Tony Dolton
United Kingdom
372 Posts |
Posted - 15/03/2022 : 07:47:54
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| I’ve got one of those camshafts, supplied by Nigel M , but don’t know who did the reprofiling. |
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1487 Posts |
Posted - 15/03/2022 : 11:59:04
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Phil (and Rosemary) might be at Brands on Sunday. If so, we can ask him.
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Cooperman
United Kingdom
761 Posts |
Posted - 15/03/2022 : 14:47:12
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As Philip B/P has some books for sale on this forum perhaps he may see this.
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