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    Tim Thearle: a brighter spark

    Sep 25, 2019 2 minutes
    JS

    t was while on the 1978 International Vintage & Veteran Car and Motorcycle Rally that Tim Thearle first began to consider the vagaries of the mysterious device that (hopefully) supplies the spark to fire the mixture in an internal engine. “We were stopped by the side of the road east of Armidale when the magneto was failing on my father’s 1930 Rudge…the first

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