Dear Listard-JP2 and Dieselgman.
thanks for the valuable info on the SL3 which i myself is of little knowledge.
so with the spares getting hard to come by, i will only use it on standby basis. her first and only role will be driving a 3 inch centrifugal pump.
since my dad and myself have no knowledge of fishing, we thought it would be more fun and easier to drain the pond in order to net the few "bamboo fish" that we rear in the farm as it had proven to be too illusive by other means.
one more unique fact is this unit was actually assembled by the once famed British Engineering company in Malaysia; Harrison Engineering Ltd has a CKD assembly in Malaysia back in the 60s
some of the later 6/1, 8/1 and 16/2 that i had seen also come with the below name plate batch;
sorry for the blur print. it reads Harrison Engineering Ltd, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Penang and Ipoh.
Kuala Lumpur being the capital of Malaysia is where the assembly plant is situated. Singapore is the trading hub for export, some 350KM away from Kuala Lumpur. Penang is our northern most city serving all the smaller agricultural town up north while Ipoh is the land of tin mines in the hey days. i can imagine every mine has a few unit of Lister then.
regards,