{"id":8,"date":"2024-03-28T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:22:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Speedwell rev counter was a product of John Sprinzel&#8217;s company Speedwell Performance Conversions and reputed to be the original electronic rev-counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The electronics were designed in-house by Speedwell and incorporated into a gauge manufactured by Weston, a company more known for manufacturing aircraft instrumentation. A variety of gauges were produced from a gauge with a full scale deflection indicating just 4K RPM right through to a 12K gauge with Formula 1 applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speedwell also produced a rev counter which was essentially a rebadged Smiths instrument which is more commonly available on ebay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original Speedwell sales brochure.<br>Courtesy of Mark Forster, MK1 Performance Conversions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weston_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weston_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weston_1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weston_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weston_2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weston_2-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speedwell rev counter was a product of John Sprinzel&#8217;s company Speedwell Performance Conversions and reputed to be the original electronic rev-counter. The electronics were designed in-house by Speedwell and incorporated into a gauge manufactured by Weston, a company more known for manufacturing aircraft instrumentation. A variety of gauges were produced from a gauge with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webserveruk.uk\/Weston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}