Thanks very much Garry for your reply. Your explanation is very interesting and certainly sounds pretty convincing to me and may I add, that
I ‘m quite surprised at the amount of interest and comment, my question has generated!
Gary, Verrrry interesting about the Evinrude phone call to Bess. If true, and I have no reason to doubt that it is, that would explain why there is no documentation in the BSA historic archive. Too bad, a bit of history lost.
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