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[stevo-1991]

hi everyone i was wondering if anyone could just tell me what mowog stands for as i have a engine with parts stamped with mowog on. Are they old performance parts from back in the day or just casting marks or where they on specif engines like coopers etc ?

thanks steve

[GreaseMonkey]

Morris-Wolesley Garages

Was stamped on original factory parts I believe

[stevo-1991]

so the parts i have on my engine may be orginal parts from when the engine was made ? any idea when they stopped making mowog parts ?

thank you for the quick reply

[GreaseMonkey]

Most likely the parts are original,

I'm not too sure when the stamping/marking stopped, I would guess that they would have been marked right up till the end of production?

[stevo-1991]

okey dokey thanks for the help

[newdawn1st]

Mowog was an 800lb gorilla employed by BL to tighten up the flywheel bolts using a large wrench and a length of scaffold pole. Apparently

[GreaseMonkey]

Mowog was an 800lb gorilla employed by BL to tighten up the flywheel bolts using a large wrench and a length of scaffold pole. Apparently

They never fed him his Bananas which sent him Ape

(Badoom tish!)

[62S]

MOWOG is MOrris WOlseley Group (not garages)

Its found on most castings on early Minis.

[stevo-1991]

im trying to roughly date a engine i have been given it has no cylinder head marks as it has been re bored to 1400 or 1380 i am unsure . but most parts have mowog stamped on them what sort of year do you think it could be ? did they do mowog parts to a certain year or where they made from 1959 to 2000 ?

thanks steve

[62S]

MOWOG seems to have started disappearing from parts in the 1980's - probablyw hen the original tooling was replaced as it wore out.

The casting number in the back of the block is a reasonable clue as to age - 12G 1279 was non S 1300 block from 1967 > 1980.

[stevo-1991]

okey dokey thanks for the information if i have no luck i will upload some pictures tommorow for everyone to have a bonder at & try figure out what it was orginally because to me it just seems to be a frankenstain engine haha


steve