Just a bit more,
Villiers being an entirely in-house operation they made everything themselves which sometimes led to smaller threads being somewhat vague in size. As tooling wore it went a little off size. This didn't matter as long as you used genuine Villiers spares as they were equally a trace off size but can give rise to some entertaining moments when you find your freshly made parts are too tight or too sloppy. It is not you it is Villiers