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[cosworth bdg]

Are these brands still available to the public in general?

[f1steveuk]

I was fairly certain that both got sucked up into Champion plugs over time.

Kennelm Lee Guinness of course held the land speed record (1922?) as well as producing the KLG plug. Lodge produced the plugs (X170s) that sparked the Rolls-Royce R type engine that powered various Blue Birds, Miss England II & III as well as the Supermarine S6 & S6B, so a nice link, but I recall both eventually got swallowed up. Lodge via Lucas into Champion and KLG as a direct take over, but I am working from memory here!!!

[soubriquet]

The last time I tried, Lodge plugs were available from my Alfa dealer. They were shorter lived and more expensive than NGKs, so I gave up. The Lodges were a multi-electrode plug.

[Allan Lupton]

Originally posted by soubriquet
The last time I tried, Lodge plugs were available from my Alfa dealer. They were shorter lived and more expensive than NGKs, so I gave up. The Lodges were a multi-electrode plug.

The dreaded Golden Lodge was even original equipment on AlfaSuds in the 1980s. Multi-electrode with a ceramic surface next to the electrodes so the gap(s) were not adjustable. Not much point in multi-electrodes as only one will ever spark.

[cosworth bdg]

Originally posted by f1steveuk
I was fairly certain that both got sucked up into Champion plugs over time.

Kennelm Lee Guinness of course held the land speed record (1922?) as well as producing the KLG plug. Lodge produced the plugs (X170s) that sparked the Rolls-Royce R type engine that powered various Blue Birds, Miss England II & III as well as the Supermarine S6 & S6B, so a nice link, but I recall both eventually got swallowed up. Lodge via Lucas into Champion and KLG as a direct take over, but I am working from memory here!!!

Many thanks, brands off to oblivion or CHINA.???????

[TEJ]

Have a lok at this
http://www.internati...id/2527/sc/8140

[RTH]

Double and triple side electrode plugs are now common fitment in many of todays road cars. Plugs in the most recent models have platinum tipped electrodes and have 40,000 mile change intervals. Voltages firing plugs now being 3 and 4 times those in use in the time of contact breaker points triggered systems of 25 years ago . As a result ignition system faults in comparison with the frequency of the past are now almost unknown on the modern car, they tend to either work correctly or the system is completely dead with a component failure.

[m9a3r5i7o2n]

So you think you have sparkplug troubles?
If you had a Cooper–Bessemer or a Lufkin stationary engine of some
considerable size, try to buy these sparkplugs on an engine that has to
start rain or shine, sleet , snow or what ever! Such as a Cooper-Bessemer
or Lufkin.

CHAMPION C97B,
7/8” x 18 by 1.250” reach by 1.125” hex by Integral coil
by $33.88 each.

These sparkplugs are used on some Mercers of around 1915 or
somewhere thereabouts. I became interested in them when I was trying
to figure out just when the use of heat ranges became really known and
used. If you are really interested in some odd ball sparkplugs that are
still manufactured and you are still interested in this sparkplug go here;

http--www.hatraco.com-Manufact-Champion-Brochures-Industr_cat.pdf

and here; http://www.champions...kins/2/logo.gif

The reason I believe that they were used in the 1900s was they not manufactured
by AC but by a company named Stitt but I have no proof of this, it is merely
conjecture. Their numbers were 19/17E/17EX.

M.L. Anderson