No32 scope bracket question please help!

[Roger Payne]

I always wondered about your choice of avatar!!

[Simon]

I always wondered about your choice of avatar!!

Cheers,

Simon.

[smellie]

These things are 'WAY out of my league, simply because of cost.

That said, I DID work for a lot of years with TYPE. You do that in the newspaper/printing/magazine business.

That logo is not WS.

It is a reversed impression of an SM logo. Look at the shape of the letters: a normal S is WIDER at its BOTTOM.

SM, somewhere in Holland.

SM???????

Now where did I put those little whips..........................?

Hope this helps.
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[muffett.2008]

SM, somewhere in Holland.

SM???????



Hope this helps.
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Me thinks if it is 'Somewhere in Holland' than it would be SH.

[gioca]

Maybe MS means Meehan and Smalley, Meehanite in more recent times. It could be a quality marking rather than a specific foundry's trade mark.

[Roger Payne]

Forgive my stupidity gioca, but what's meehanite? Please elaborate?!!?

ATB

[gioca]

Meehanite was a company suppling technical know how to some foundries to improve the quality of the castings.

[Roger Payne]

Ah.....Thanks. Alles Klaar!

[bigduke6]

There is a SM steel works in India, I think.

[Roger Payne]

I strongly suspect the bracket will turn out to have been made in Holland (or possibly Belgium) as a replacement part for use on No4T's supplied to them by the UK after WW2. I now have the bracket as I think Dennis was no longer interested in it as it is not WW2 UK mfr. (The owner wants to do a trade with me for some other bits & pieces). It is made to a high standard & certainly wasn't produced in someone's garage.....

Have we got any Flemish metallurgists or foundry workers on this forum???!!!????!!

ATB