Description

Summary: Wellworthy red and white cardboard box. Contains 3 rings in their own packets. Printed with "Mile Master Motor Cycle Matched Piston Ring Set for' In the white rectangle at the bottom a typed section reads BSA 250cc. Set No M8, B.20-21-22 C.10 S.V. C.11 C.12 1957/57, 2 Comp. 63 + 040 x 1/16 x .093, 1 S.O.C. 63+040 x 1/8 x.093. Bottom and top of pack also printed with 'M8 B.S.A 250cc +040. Box measures 8.6cm square x 1.2cm. Back of box is buff with red outlined box and 5 thin red vertical stripes with Manufactured by Wellworthy Limited Radial Works, Lymington, Hampshire, England printed within the box. Also states 'Reliability, Wellworthy Piston rings have been used by winners of the T.T. and International events for 30 years. No better rings can be purchased. For the best in motor cycling insist on Wellworthy'. Packets inside are red/brown in colour, printed with the same as the box only with added fitting instructions. One ring per packet. Made by Wellworthy and Co, Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, from the 1940s and 1950s

Identification note: Collection came originally from a firm in Jersey which held a lot of Wellworthy spares as it was so far away from the factory