[Al Skierkiewicz]

Jim,
This is complicated. Globe allows you to custom order a motor and transmission assembled. They had specific parts in the past that combined a motor and transmission but sold under a specific part number. Our FRC Globes may have been one of those. (I have not researched the Globe site so bear with me.) Globe has consequently changed their numbering to some extent although the parts remain the same. (The motors we use for dish feedhorn movement comes under this category as I can no longer order the number we have used for years but I can find the same motor/transmission under a different part number.) So under the first sentence of the rule, a transmission from a previous year could have been a COTS item and if you didn't modify it other than to remove it from the motor than it would be legal. Since I have not checked the actual Globe listings (although I seem to remember once checking the FRC part on the Globe site and it was a valid part) I cannot tell if this part were in fact specifically made for FRC which would then make it legal under R34 if left in an unmodified state.
Are you thoroughly confused now?
Dad,
This rule did exist in 2009 in a slightly different form and as R32 and does allow a wider use of previous year's parts.