Talk:The Scott Motorcycle Company

Spelling of Angas
An anonymous editor changed one occurrence of Angus to Angas. I reverted this, thinking the editor had been looking at one particualr websites, when others spelled the name in the standard way. However, when I analysed independent websites (about 40 with each spelling) the Angas spelling was used by the more reputable and more reliable websites, so I conclude that the anonymous editor was correct. I have reinstated his/her alteration, and also changed the other two occurrencies of this middle name in this article. It is already correct on the Scott (name) page but there is one other spelling which needs to be changed (I'm looking for it.) ''  d b f i r s   19:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

major edits
Hi Thruxton,

You have done a a lot of work on this article over the holiday period. However, some information seems to have gone awol in the process including the whole stationary engine section and the short biographical note on AA Scott himself. Is there any reason for this?

I also note that the article now has a slightly reverential tone about it with all refs to the stagnation of the basic design being removed are you perhaps allowing your POV to intrude?

81.134.14.178 (talk) 16:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I am working up The Scott Motorcycle Company as a GA candidate, together with Alfred Angas Scott and as many of the Scott bikes as I can. I would have preferred to copy the whole thing to a sandbox area but would welcome help from people such are yourself, so please feel free to revert anything you think should not have been cut - as long as it has reliable references. My view is that the autobiographical facts should be in the article on AAS. I've been trying to get free use of a photo of Scott, as there are some good ones around but the guys at Commons are taking a hard line on this so if you could help with that it would be great. I’d also like you to consider setting yourself up as a user and joining me on the new Wikipedia:WikiProject_Motorcycling/British_Motorcycles as I’m currently the only member and would really appreciate your help Cheers Thruxton (talk) 08:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed about the biographical material, but I'd certainly like to see a return of the stationary engine section, though refs would be a little sparse as much of it was written from my own experience (different IP address but still me)- there was a short series of articles on the subject in Stationary Engine Magazine a few years ago and did you see the "Of ports and pistons" piece in 'Yowl' last year? I am less concerned about the bike bits as there are probably many out there who know a good deal more than me on that subject and of course Jeff Clew's "The Yowling Two-Stroke" is pretty definative when it comes to checking facts (I find the various 'coffee table' encyclopedias of British motorcycles can be somewhat less than accurate - let's hope Wikipedia will not emulate them!).81.134.14.178 (talk) 09:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've added a few new refs etc myself - are you sure ref name="MSE" is valid as it consists entirely of material lifted from an earlier version of the WIKI page?81.134.14.178 (talk) 16:27, 7 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Well spotted - I've removed it as your ref does the job much better. Cheers Thruxton (talk) 20:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Dab Squirrel and Flying Squirrel
This page treats the Scott Squirrel of 1923 as a separate model from the Flying Squirrel of 1946, but the article Scott Flying Squirrel says the Flying Squirrel was made 1923-1940 and doesn't mention a 1946 relaunch. As far as I can tell, "Scott Squirrel" was only a shorthand way of referring to the full name, Scott Flying Squirrel, and there was only one model with various upgrades over the years. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:12, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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