Saving Old Seagulls

Seagull had their record month in the early 70's over 7000 produced, no one seems the remember the actual year & month but 3 or 4 members of staff from that period have told me similar figures, over the last 20 years.

I think they shut the doors in 1994!

If you look at the inside of your flywheel you will see the cam (egg shaped centre) that causes the points to open & close.

If you remove this cover & the spark plug & get somebody to film the points with a mobile phone while you slowly rotate the flywheel by hand you will be able to make a ...

Remove the drive shaft tube from the crankcase first, then you'll have the bottom end of the exhaust tube loose, now wiggle it about!

Eddie go & search on the forum for "seagull register" this will show you all the details of all of the SD's on the register & many of their technical details, you will note that no one states long or short water jacket as they all had short water jackets & a crankcase with 4 studs for cylinder ...

Hugo are you able to pass comment on these pictures?
Hugo is the Australian Gentleman who is compiling the SD register

To the best of my knowledge no SD's were manufactured with a long water jacket cylinder & the serial number font on your crankcase looks different to fonts used by Seagull ...

Giant Seagull gathering in South Africa.

A little bird told me there was a Seagull event in S-A with around 150 Boats, why haven't we heard anything about it? is it a secret?

Come on you lot if there were that many Seagulls in one patch of water, it must be a World Record, please can someone post ...

Thanks for the film, very enjoyable!

Thought the wig made you look very hot, were you wearing high heels as well?

B's piston is almost at TDC.

Why not mention your previous post "https://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/p ... php?t=6609"

There was a Kingfisher paraffin model that was designed for the Asian market, but I've never seen one & I can't remember where I read about it.

That's right!

How much oil did you fill gear box with.

Andrew does your throttle cable have a kink where it's wrongly threaded through the cable wrecking hole?

Bill the fact that your gearbox the pinion locating screw just above the end cap retaining screw means as Andrew said, it's a SAE 140 box.

Bill can you post the serial number serial number from your 40 as that looks like a CDI ignition, can you also post a picture of the gearbox end cap, so we can count the screws, that Andrew was talking about.

I've seen 3 or 4 with traces of navy grey paint under the flywheel cover.

But have never heard any hints of any order by the Naval ministry of supply but then nothing from back then seems very logical!