Came across this photo of a Chummy and Rolls Royce at Glasgow docks taken in late 1963, both cars had been part of the John Cuthill Sword collection. I believe they were waiting for shipment to America after the auction sale of 7th September 1963, the seven was lot number 15 and the Rolls Royce lot number 109. Does any body know where ER 8727 ended up, it's not recognised by the DVLA and I don't think it's on the chassis register.  

   

I have a pair of (as described to me) "new Nippy springs".

They have been fitted to a Ruby, to lower the suspension, but the car has never run anywhere with the springs.

Then it became an "abandoned project", left in a garage for several years.

The springs have a little surface rust where they project from the chassis, the ends inside the chassis were covered in grease and do indeed look new.  

6 leaves and a packing piece, and about 2.5 inches of camber.

I don't need a new pair of Nippy springs, but I do need a pair of new or very good secondhand springs for a low chassis LWB tourer.

Money or swap - anyone interested?   If not, I will put them on an auction site.

Simon

Hello to you all,I was watching TV last week "Last of the Summer wine" i am sure you will have heard of it or watched it,the programme i watched there was a little Chummy tourer not there as a prop car but being used in the show,in fact it had 5 of the old actors in it,so i noted the reg number which was UR 1067 and looked in Askmid and it is showing insured so still on the road just wondered if it belongs to anyone here???.The show was dated 2002;Ted

Would any kind soul be able to post a brief video that demonstrates the sort of sound one might find trying to make a crankshaft ring after being hit?  Not exactly NDT Science but I have several old cranks here and I noticed they all sound the same with neither a Crystal Wineglass ring nor a dull thud.  All cracked or all good?  Dinggggg, Dangg or Donk?  I have an excess of old blocks and crankcases that I need to sort through and am not sure if anything is really worth hanging onto.

Thanks.

Rob

After seeing the repro thing on sale a while back and coming across a road test, I also came across this - the John Sutton letter. How many of these things are known to exist and where can they be seen these days?

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My 1935 ORT is rapidly approaching terminal backlash in the back axle... I've been planning to replace it for about 7 years now with a semi girling one to match the brakes on the front... and think it probably a good idea to do something before I loose forward motion. I'd really like a useable semi girling back axle if anyone has one, but could settle for a mk2 Ruby torque tube (as complete as possible to ensure that I have everything needed for reassembling) I have bits to assemble a complete axle and spare CWP  but the torque tube was modified for different bearings by the p.o.... Any assistance much appreciated.

    Can anyone explain three hole in a triangular pattern in the dashboard of my car?

Thanks, John

I follow the legal use of LED headlights on UK roads etc,  but I am searching for LED replacement bulbs for P15d 30  6 volt types.  I found some from DynamoConversions, but Ouch,  they are expensive.  Anyone else found a source for them or a way of converting the P15 30 format to a more common bulb socket.


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I have just added this photo to the Gallery; the photo is captioned "Filling up on the Alpine Rally". Obviously not the European Alpine Rally, those hats in the background look rather 'colonial', so is this in Australia or South Africa, perhaps?

I may be wrong but I believe that Austin did not name their car an Ulster but it was a "Sports Model", and the Ulster name came about due to the success in the Ulster TT.  I am reasonably happy that the above is correct but in looking for car dealer adverts I have not come across an Austin add using the name "Chummy" only "Tourer"  is this another car that has a nick name.  I suppose "Boat Tail" is a nick name as well.  

All very confusing even with out looking at the letter codes.  Are there any other modles with nick names?

But I have found a dealers advert for a Morris "Chummy" from 1924, so who had the nick name first Morris or Austin?

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1924 Burnley News - Saturday 26 April 1924 Image © Johnston Press plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD