Greg,

just updating the registration files. Is there a chance you can send a hero shot and one of the inside film mechanism for the picture file?

ED.

John,

Curious as to why you would switch the mag blimps?

#10 has some really great provenance. The 4 holes were probably from an Obie light mount.

Is #10 in really bad shape?

ED.

My gut feeling would be to offer him a cash pay to clean out his stash... What are your blimps? BNC or BNCR? I have built a prop in the past to fill an empty BNC and have a BNC conversion on the bench searching for parts and eventually an empty blimp to put it into. If you like, I will send the thre...

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Primordial???

Gawd but you have to luv spell Chuck!

ED.

Primordial,

Sent you a PM.

Mk1= 53. (1-4 marked as “never built”)
Mk2/a (100- 268) = 168 (Serial numbers not continuous)
System 35 (101-382) = 281 ( “ )

Total = 502

Just saw this post. Here is a basic timeline with serial numbers: The (Mk1) R35 first serial number was #5 (it appears the first 4 were design tests in some form) that was in 1961. A total of 53 were built. The last one was serial number 59 in early 1962. The R35 Mk II was a redesign of the original...