Thinking of chasing around Holland in our RK top hat around 10 Sept for 5 days.  Going to tow with trailer and modern to Harwich from Brum and park within striking district of the port.  Can any kind soul provide parking space for the modern and trailer near that locality?

This one is especially for Ruairidh!



Submitted by Peter Naulls, taken from the Historic Caravan Club archives.

Hi

Have just seen that the very late Ruby I examined some years ago and as discussed on the Cornwall Club website is being auctioned by Mathewsons in Yorkshire in May. (The current owner is not known to me.)

http://www.austin7.org/Technical%20Artic...0Features/

The car has quite a few unusual detailed features, though it is unclear whether or not they date back to when it left the factory.  The Chassis No is given in the register as 290072, so there a few later Rubies on there - not sure if any share these modifications to the earlier ARR design?  Why anyone - at the factory, or a later owner - would go to the trouble of incorporating these odd changes is unclear to me.

Regards,
Colin

Hi Folks, Does anyone know the whereabouts of 1933/RP box Saloon OC1851 or possibly DC1851. ?
I have a period picture post card photo of this car which was taken at Cruckley Animal Farm, Foston-on-the-Wold,
East Yorkshire.
Smiley.

The excellent Pre War Dealerships site has a 1932 Larke Hoskins (Sydney) advertisement that includes a note regarding the fitting of the Humfrey Sandberg Free Wheel for an extra 10 pound.

I haven't seen this before and did some research-

Motor Sport Article May 1974
An even better-known device was the Humfrey-Sandberg uni-directional clutch. It was a product of Humfrey-Sandberg Ltd. of Transport House, Victoria, who had registered offices at Imperial Chemical House, Millbank. This was again a free/"jammed" roller-race mechanism, claimed to obviate local loading of its circumference and not to rely on special friction surfaces or powerful springs for its engagement. Engagement was effected by a ratchet-reducing-gear operable through the very smallest of practicable radii or angular movement. Used as a free-wheel behind a car's gearbox it was claimed to save from 15% to 30% on petrol bills, conserve engine oil, reduce the frequency of decarbonising (which dates it!), and reduce wear on engine, transmission and tyres. A stubby auxiliary "gear" lever actuated the free-wheel lock.
The Humfrey-Sandberg was intended as a ratchet-reducing-gear applicable to all kinds of feed controls, for mechanical paralleling or series-ing of prime movers, and as the main clutch for low-starting-torque electric motors, etc., by manual or centrifugal operation. As a free-wheel it was made for the Austin 7, the Austin 12, the six-cylinder Morris cars, Morris-Oxfords up to 1929, and Morris vans, and was an option on AC, Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley Twelve, Jowett and MG cars.
 
Patent-
title     = "Free-wheel clutch with skew rollers",
 number    = "1834843",
 author    = "Willis, Humfrey John Charles",
 year      = "1931",
 month     = "December",

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I recently got shown this fabulous picture that appeared in Classic and Sportscar many years ago, afraid I dont know what issue. Would anyone know where a copy of this photograph can be obtained.

   

I’m selling what I have been led to believe is an original Ulster Crank and set of conrods. Can anyone help confirm identification. Does anyone know of anyone possibly interested in these?
Item number is 273184509697.
   
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Bit of of a newbie question, but does anyone know a supplier of imperial shim washers?

I'm replacing the camshaft and crankshaft timing gears and was feeling quite pleased I'd got the camshaft end float dead on .002", but now need a .046" shim to bring the crankshaft pinion in line with the camshaft gear.
o/d is 1 3/4" and i/d is 1 1/8", so metric 42 x 30mm to give 1.15mm would do but is not ideal.

Being a lazy, mean Yorkshireman I'm wanting an off the shelf imperial alternative to buying yards of shim stock and making my own.

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I've been reading through an old thread on prop shaft lengths. Three are mentioned - BP28 20" long, BP73 19.5" long and BP93 but no length given. Did the length for the BP93 ever get tied down? Looks like mine's just a bit too short!

Readers will be aware of all the problems I have had with my Big Seven but this one is common to others as well. My car regularly will not start or stops on a short run. Petrol can be seen leaking from the joint between the float chamber and the main body of the vertical downdraught Zenith vm30.
This means the carb is flooding and it would appear there are two possible causes.
1. Dirty fuel cut off valve
2. The fuel pump is not cuttin off pumping when the cut off valve operates.
I have three cut off valves - one new - and all three have been blown out and washed out so I strongly suspect it's the fuel pump. This is a new pump bought to replace the original and it does give a strong flow. However, I have just had the pump replaced with another new one and the same thing happened.
Has anyone else suffered this problem?