I have now pretty much exhausted all spares and suppliers of rubbers and extrusions for my RN windscreen rubber. No one has the profile that I have at present.
I have a July 1932 RN De Lux Saloon with a black steel windscreen surround. This has no groove to set a rubber in. 
The existing rubber seal is glued into the body opening in a "U" shape with no rubber across the top. It becomes distorted at the window closer handle, doesn't look right.        
One school of thought is that this may be a cross over windscreen from a previous model used in the factory??
Another is that it is a replacement screen from a different model?
I have tried to contact Dave Mann, he may be away.
If anyone can help me please.

(19-07-2018, 12:52 PM)Biddlecombe Wrote: I have now pretty much exhausted all spares and suppliers of rubbers and extrusions for my RN windscreen rubber. No one has the profile that I have at present.
I have a July 1932 RN De Lux Saloon with a black steel windscreen surround. This has no groove to set a rubber in. 
The existing rubber seal is glued into the body opening in a "U" shape with no rubber across the top. It becomes distorted at the window closer handle, doesn't look right.
One school of thought is that this may be a cross over windscreen from a previous model used in the factory??
Another is that it is a replacement screen from a different model?
I have tried to contact Dave Mann, he may be away.
If anyone can help me please.

I am going to look at my first Austin 7 on Sunday. It is a 1936 Mk 1 Ruby. I have been doing my research over the last few months and printed off lots of useful information. The car in question is from a well known Austin 7 dealer that was recommended to me, so the car should be ok.

Is there any tips that you guys could give me for things I should be looking for that I might otherwise miss?

Many Thanks

Wayne

How easy is it to remove these brass guides set in the block? 
Any useful tips appreciated.

I’ve had to swap a set of followers from one block( cracked)
To another and 3 won’t fit into the brass guides.
Still investigating.

Regards

Bill G

Date: 18-07-2018

Midshires Group Event

I have been asked by the organiser of the Victory Show in Cosby,Leicestershire, if any members of the Midshires Group would like to take their Austin 7s or Pre War Cars to the Event. It takes place on Saturday and Sunday 1st. / 2 nd. September and vehicles should be there around 9 a.m. to avoid any congestion. Each car plus one other will have a free pass to the Show. 
More details will supplied on request. 
Please contact me on cgdawson@hotmail.co.uk before 12th. August so I can arrange for passes.

I'm just throwing a chummy together at present (an AE to be precise).

The throttle shaft I have appears to be too long. I'm happy with the layout at the pedal end, but the carb end seems to stick further out than necessary for it all to lign up.

Given I found a disintegrated Mazak carb in the box of bits I assume the car ran latterly with a sidedraft so the shaft may have been modified.

This is where I am. Can anyone please furnish me with a similar photo with the correct bits in the correct places? 

It looks like all I need to do is undo the collar on the pedal end. Push the shaft further to the offside of the car. Redrill the collar in the revised position, saw off the end, and file for the pedal bolt at the correct angle of dangle. But a photo to confirm would be good!.

Many thanks in advance.

1932 AG tourer with two piece screen (as Chummy).
Does anyone know how the frame would have been finished? The uprights are steel & have signs of black paint (enamel?), the frame is discoloured brass, but shows no sign of paint nor plating. Would it have been polished         (& lacquered perhaps) or unpolished brass?
Any ideas?

A particularly energising day as I got to be the guinea-pig for "Dr Anderson's patented Austin 7 fixed pole towing arrangement prototype", to recover my car from home to my mum's garage (from hilly, nasty roads... to quiet flat roads to enable "starting to get it running again")
James has devised a link to affix said tow pole (which is available quite reasonably at shops near you) to the front Austin axle. Worked extremely well, especially when I'd mastered the brakes enough to reduce any drive train shunt from the pole on its fixings at either end.
And what's more, the car bearings and brakes have had a bit of a workout over 16 miles and nothing fell off! A lot, lot safer than a tow rope, which we of course had as a back up. Thankyou James!

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Good evening all. After my request for a 1928/29 bulkhead to bonnet stay out of the blue I received a superb pattern from Mr. Williams (from Wales) via Brian Downes of Stafford.
What a marvelous fraternity Austin 7 owners are!
If Mr. Williams could email me on stuart.joseph@btinternet.com I can thank him personally.

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire

Stuart

new (but my floor isn't correct pattern enough for it)  £40 posted

Help!

We're building a van body onto a Mk1 Ruby floor pan and front end.  Before I upset the purists, we haven't chopped the car; this is a re-working of an older heavy and hideous conversion. 


I have to make substantially new rear wheel arches for it and before I can finalise these, I need to make sure that the rear wings are correctly positioned.  These need to line up with the running boards, which date from the earlier rebuild and which I plan to re-use.

I'm concerned that the back end of these running boards is wider than it should be.

Could some kind Mk1 Ruby owner please confirm the width of the boards at the B-post (as photo)?

Many thanks!

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