Foot pump

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

apparently these were standard equipment for Rolls Royce at the time…

Is there a parallel to parts costing 10x more when listed as fitting a Corvette instead of any old Chevrolet when the Jupiter pump is for a Rolls-Royce rather than something with less prestige?

[rob love]

I got the one in the photo in post 1 for £20 with about 3x that for postage. In total it came to less than $100cdn. The list of items I need for the 25pdr is getting reasonably small, so I'll pay what I have to pay.

[rnixartillery]

I dont know where the pictures have disappeared too Rob ,I have not removed any !


Rob.......................rnixartillery.

[rob love]

Well whatever happened to them, they are missed. There was some great reference material in them.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

Is there a parallel to parts costing 10x more when listed as fitting a Corvette instead of any old Chevrolet when the Jupiter pump is for a Rolls-Royce rather than something with less prestige?

The parallel is also in the militaria field when a standard pocket knife goes way up in asking value because it is a paratrooper rigging knife, or a pair of binoculars becomes a sniper's binocular.

The trick on many of these things is to be somewhat patient. For instance, when it comes to optics for tanks and artillery, there are way more of the optics surviving than there are the applicable guns. Some patience pays off.