I guess you guys are looking at...
Mercury Outboards which seems semi abandoned as you say with the dealer by postcode search u/s and no manual downloads etc.
But I thought the main site for the UK was the eu one which has access to dealer info, manual downloads & still covers the old 2-strokes etc. Its news is as up to date as summer 2014 and the events page goes right through to 2015.
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