------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C56811.897C88E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Should distinguish between straight, square section mild steel and the fairly elaborate W.I. stocks used circa 1900 - e.g. Painswick, Surfleet and Loughboro BF etc. The former are an 'economy measure'. [agreed] On the subject of unusual headstocks, does anyone know if the rather unusual Warner stocks pictured in the RW in the period 1915-ish on the ring at Felstead are still extant? From Warners' blurb it sounds as though at least some of them might have been aluminium. [I understand that Warner's did experiment with aluminium headstocks, altho= ugh whether this is one of the places where they were tried I don't know] David =20 Yahoo! Groups Links =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C56811.897C88E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable