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chummys with one piece screens - JonE - 22-03-2019
Are there other standard SWB tourers out there with other than two piece screens please? Wanted to explore whether there are original variants, perhaps abroad, as well as those cars which may have converted screens.
Any information you can yield?
RE: chummys with one piece screens - Ian Dunford - 22-03-2019
Australian Chummies have one piece screens.
RE: chummys with one piece screens - JonE - 22-03-2019
ah great. So presumably South African perhaps too. I wonder why, as potentially need for air would surely have been greater?
RE: chummys with one piece screens - Mike Costigan - 22-03-2019
I think South Africa took Longbridge-built cars, unlike the majority of Australian cars which had locally-sourced bodies.
RE: chummys with one piece screens - Bill Sheehan - 26-03-2019
JonE - Greetings. The Aussie one-piece screens came in two heights and were made here. Re the air - they open out at the bottom & the top!. The pillars were thick, solid brass, (including the lamp bracket at the base on the early versions), and quite heavy, unlike the semi-circular, thin Longbridge ones. The swivel point was about 2/3s up each pillar and regulated by a large wing nut each side.. Cheers, Bill in Oz
RE: chummys with one piece screens - Monsdonnet - 26-03-2019
(22-03-2019, 08:52 PM)JonE Wrote: ah great. So presumably South African perhaps too. I wonder why, as potentially need for air would surely have been greater?
Surely the opening screen was intended more for visibility in rain and snow?
RE: chummys with one piece screens - Bill Sheehan - 28-03-2019
Mosdonnet - I wrote that from Australia, remember - What rain or snow? Seriously though, all Sevens here of that era had windscreen wipers. Cheers, Bill in Oz