I was told by an ex vickers person that when Hill Rom took over Vickers they were somewhat amazed to find a large parts store full of extremely old parts to maintain all that wonderful (but very old) british product out there.
This ran contrary to modern engineering practise whereby support is discontinued to push more product on the customer.
The store's contents were heaved into a series of skips & chucked into land fill.
Unless you want to buy a shovel & start digging you had better just give it up.
Marc
