Picked up a new clutch kit today, mainly because the fun and games getting the box back on for the trial-fit convinced me that I don’t want to be doing this all over again if the clutch goes for a burton in three months time. 
The other reason is that none of the local factors were readily able to get a release bearing on its own, whereas there’s one in the kit … supply and demand these days I guess.
It’s surprising how much range there is in pricing for these things, and I know I could have “saved” a couple of quid buying online, but a local place could have the kit ready for collection by the afternoon – and the chappie on the phone gave me a good price as he thought it was “daft for a part for such an old car to cost more than seventy quid”. 
Sixty two pounds isn’t too bad anyway, factoring the convenience and lack of postage costs.
It would seem that the manufacturers are mixing and matching parts to make the clutch kits these days, keeping things going in a contracting market. One place told me that LUK have discontinued this particular kit, and the centre of the friction plate I’ve got has actually got the AP logo on it.
Oh, and it’s all nice and clean and new.
mk1matt: You can make a pretty good clutch alignment tool using an exstension bar from your socket set and the right size socket on the end to fit the spigot bearing, then wrap insulation tape around the bar until the clutch plate fits snuggly. Stick it all in, eye it up, jobs a goodun
dangerousdave: Stu regarding the missmatching of parts/companies, you will probably find that they refurb an old plate with new springs and friction material so its essentially a new clutch again, hence the ap marking on the clutch 