Thursday, October 18, 2012

Pocket Magneto and Tappet spanners - Includes Terry Spanners

Pocket spanners were produced for the motorcyclist to repair their bike out on the road

There were a number of types produced

1) Terry were a manufacturer of accessories of all types.

There is a copy of a Terry catalogue at Terry Catalogue This catalogue includes the following two items

a) Terry Magneto spanner BA series
BA is short for British Association screw threads which were small screw threads. Wikipedia has a good description see link BA threads


 





 Spanner set is clearly marked
"Terry"s RgNo673876 Spanners"
Each spanner is marked with BA size
the smallest being 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the largest.
The 6, 7, 8, are marked on the reverse side to the 1-5


 The larger three , 6 (smallest of the three), 7 and 8 (largest)
 The only other mark is "Made in England"
It also come with screwdriver
 
 and feeler gauge













b) Terry Tappet spanner

 These came in
0BA 1BA
2BA 3BA

This one is 4BA & 6BA











2)  H.T.& S magneto spanners

This has the army arrow and 1944



Sizes 8, 6, 4, 2, 0
 
 
3) BTH Magneto spanner