Vann
Established Member
The Stanley dating sites are all USA orientated. They're no good for UK or Aussie planes. I'm not sure about Canadian Stanleys. I suspect these were assembled in Canada using contemporary USA parts (but that's just a guess).Dovetaildave":10pflepc said:http://www.rexmill.com/
Just looked on the latter (USA)no 6 and (England)no4, no numbers on either of them.
I couldn't see anything on the site about that. :?
As for dating UK Stanleys, the best I've found was on a thread on the Aussie forum (way back in November 2004):
However this would need refining, as (for example) Type 3: it was a long time after WW2 that the steel bits showed up (like late 1960s or early 1970s) so there's room for a few additional "types" in there.I'm sure we can make up a type study for these, I don't expect any Americans to do so any time soon. Howabout:
Type 1: 1937-1939
Type 2: WW2, hard rubber adjusting nuts..
Type 3: Postwar - steel bits
Type 4: Whenever those rib thingys appear on the beds (about 1972)
Type 5: Whenever the beds are marked 12-00X?
Type 6: 1983-present. The G12-00X planes
Cheers, Vann.