Originally Posted by RichardV6
I obtained this quality but scruffy Walters and Dobson double acting foot pump Chris as part of an auction lot which included a brand new cased 2 ton trolley jack smile

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Found a guy who offered new leather seal kits and rebuilt it. Works really well being essentially two pumps in series with the outer of second cylinder forming the piston for the first.

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Sad to say the quality and innovation offered by such small British companies priced them out of the market.

Worth checking out eBay or your local T W Gaze auctions in Diss.



I have the self same pump as this .... got it for pennies at a car boot sale and think I got my leather seal set from the same old guy in a shed (came wrapped in brown paper with proper string!) .... it's a really great pump ... the mechanical action is silky smooth (as opposed to many of the modern pumps that are rattly and wobble) .... excellent quality bit of kit the likes of which you won't get these days.

The only downside is that they're rather heavy.

K