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Mareng:
£215.99 direct from X-eng (including VAT)

£252.61 (inc VAT) from L.R.Series  :shocked:

Don't care if the one L.R series is advertising is an X-Eng or a Britpart Rip off, I know where I'll be buying mine from when I get round to getting one for the 110.

Litch:
It is very common for parts to be sold under different names, just becasue they market them it does not mean they manufacture them.

The most common example of this which comes instantly to mind is 'genuine' and 'OE' parts.
If you take the argument in the other direction you could say that it is Land Rover (or any other car manufacturer for that matter) who are being misleading by selling Dayco, Lucas, Girling, Quinton Hazell, Bosh etc parts in 'Genuine Land Rover Parts' wrappers. The outside company has manufactured them but they are sold under the LR label.

Many (probably most) Britpart & Bearmach parts are manufactured by existing manufactures and they just put their own brand to them. I know for a fact that what are sold as Britpart exhausts are actually made by Bosal who in my opinion make some of the best exhausts in the business. My Bearmach LED NAS lights which I recently purchased are made by Le Perie but from Bearmach they were cheaper than buying from Le Perie distributers!

Range Rover Blues:
In my experience of OEM (original equipemnt manufacturer) parts, they are almost always made by other comapnies, BUT to the manufacturer's spec which sometimes supercedes the spec for parts you buy under the umbrella of other brands.  Sometimes you find the parts that car manufactuers don't accept being sold under other brand names :shock:

Anyway, if anyone DOES buy a Britpart X-brake, I'd be interested to know if it has the X-Eng logo on it like the picture, or if Britpart have used a picture of the X-brake they copied :-k

Either way, if you want an X-brake they are cheapest to buy form Simon at a show.

As for the originality of the design, well I know he tried several sources of calliper over a number of prototype setups before settling on the JCB calliper.  It's very expensive but over-engineered for the job, being thoroughly waterproof and using sintered pads so that it works when imersed in mud.

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