BS Operating Instruction booklets

[Keith.P]

That's the only early price list I have, it came in the 102 envelope, with the H in one corner, we wont go into that.
In it was the guarantee (unused) with 3/53 in the corner, operations book 1-53 in the corner, operating seagulls in the cold paperwork, not dated, that includes the little forty and a 102 drawing.
Plus this parts list 6-52, which is dirty compared to the rest of the paperwork, so could have been a later acquisition, I had to fork out £3 for all that.
I do have a 1-56 operation book and a later orange parts book.

[Charles uk]

Jon I lent my folder of 25 or 30 Price Lists to someone 4 or 5 years ago, but I can't remember who, & appealed for it's return some time ago, so can't help any there.

The spares books are very difficult to date as they weren't dated until the 60s, prior to that the coloured cover booklets just had the models they covered around the edge of the cover, this one has Forty Minus SJM, Forty Plus SJP, Clutch Century Plus CPC, Century 100 LLS, Century Plus, No Clutch CP around the edge, without codes & revision.

Marston brochure paperwork was much higher quality than the later British Seagull stuff, glossy high quality paper almost photo quality pictures & the part/price lists you've obviously seen, but have nothing in common with the later seagull stuff, it was a very different style of company.

I bought the price books all over the place as at the time it seemed the most accurate way of estimating change dates & the surest way of finding facts is reading them in black & white.

[Gannet]

These are the pages of the Eighth and Fourteenth Editions of the Operating Instructions:-

Jeremy

[Keith.P]

Every post I have seen says seagull moved in the mid 50's to Fleet Bridge, the Eighth edition says 1-55.
So the forty's and the 102's had their own separate edition numbers and the little model forty booklet would be sometime before 1955, probably.

[headdownarseup]

Now we're getting somewhere

[Sandro_Picchio]

If this can be of any help, the Operating Instructions book that came with my 40 plus in 1963 in Italy is fourteenth edition, the BS address is Fleets Bridge Pool, Dorset and the number in the lower left corner is 6/62.
I also have a Spares Book for CENTURY PLUS whith Clutch, CENTURY PLUS whithout Clutch, CENTURY 100, FORTY (40) PLUS, FORTY (40) MINUS, with an orange cover, not featuring prices.

Sandro

PS. Shall scan if wanted

[tambikeboy]

Sixteenth edition
4/64
Nineteenth edition
L/FF
eighteenth edition
L/FE