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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>NOT hyphenated – he’s in Crockford’s under Horne, Edward Hastings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks for drawing attention to the 2003 article (I had a note of it – but not in the place I looked in). It was followed by a letter from Arthur Fidler, RW 16 Jan 2004 p.53<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I agree completely with Chris Povey about Hastings stays – faultless and friction-free if properly set up. It used to annoy me that at one point E&S advertised specifically that they converted Hastings to normal stays and sliders – a definite failure to appreciate good engineering. That said, I do acknowledge that many steeplekeepers find them a real pain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Replacement stays of the correct dimensions are still easily obtained from the original suppliers in Loughborough, I believe! A little expensive, but easy to fit – so probably worth it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#1F3864'>Chris Pickford</span></i></b><span style='color:#1F3864'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496'>Kinver (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496'>Tel: 07811-453525<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496'>e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:pickford5040@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>pickford5040@gmail.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>