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kent400:
[ Guests cannot view attachments ] Well it certainly appears that they do looking at these four speedometers.

They are never fitted CB360P ones that have a whack right in the centre of the glass that's bent the needles. On further investigation the 'whack' was pushed the needle pin into the mechanism. The owner's original instructions were to fit new glasses and straighten the needles, maybe it wasn't noticed that the needles were touching the dial faces and on one of them the distance counter was partly obscured by the face.

Dismantling gauges with broken glasses is a pain in the arse and managing to do that with some loss of blood is a challenge. Dyson on duty but there's usually tiny shard with my name on it!

These speedometers are nothing like I've seen before, must have cost Nippon Seiki a fortune to tool up to manufacture these and I understand there were on a couple of thousand produced.

Will I get any of these to function is unclear at the moment, a challenge for sure and I'll update on progress. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]        

Johnny4428:
That’s criminal on these that’s never been fitted! Why would they do that?

Bryanj:
I didnt think they did, but a lot of stock was held in regional warehouses, the uk one was in netherlands, so perhaps they did

taysidedragon:
Could they be from a faulty batch so were made unusable?

K2-K6:
Some time ago, a friend working within a landfill management company had very regular consignment from them as the site he worked on then was near to significant UK warehouse of theirs. Usually accompanied by a company representative to ensure it was buried on arrival, not damaged though as alot of it got pulled out after observation went away.
Common then was a site "totter" and believe me no metal ever went into the ground, cash changed hands for totting rights as it were, pretty lucrative too.

Many of these consignment were straight off the shelf and still packaged with all identification intact.

It's not often realised, but effective accounting practice has stock held rising in price the longer it stays, inventory logged, availability ensured, etc etc....it eventually costs just too much to keep it at all from a properly operated system with warehousing etc. Dumping it is cost effective.

Companies we see now (particularly with Internet searches to find it) are different businesses in specialised "long tail" trading, with low cost warehouse facilities and maximising availability channels, DS being an example of this. The "bay" being another with virtual warehousing when people find this stuff in lofts/sheds etc.

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