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Chummy door checkstraps - Nick Salmon - 11-11-2020
At the moment the Chummy has not got any checkstraps on its doors. Were they fitted as standard? If so, could a kind soul please post some pictures to give me a guide?
RE: Chummy door checkstraps - Tony Griffiths - 11-11-2020
These are not, of course original, but one shows a very neat arrangement and the other how the strap is bolted to the frame (in this case by Bodger No.1) in a more workaday solution.
RE: Chummy door checkstraps - Renaud - 11-11-2020
Arrrhh, that's rude... (the last!)
RE: Chummy door checkstraps - Robin Oldfield - 15-11-2020
When it comes to later tourers there appears to be a much cleaner way of attaching check straps. The attached photo is of a restored LWB tourer which has a check strap fitted like the chummy shown above and just like those illustrated in the Rinsey Mills book for an RP. However (and ignoring the non-original style of door card) if you look above it you can see a recess in the door frame and a channel in the A post behind which there is a fixture to hold a vertical pin through a loop in the strap. I don't know if the RP also has such a structure and never having examined an original tourer I am unsure as to whether this much more satisfactory arrangement was actually used.
RE: Chummy door checkstraps - Nick Salmon - 15-11-2020
Thanks chaps
RE: Chummy door checkstraps - Mike Costigan - 15-11-2020
Original check-straps on David Howe's car:
Straps are made of a sacking material, wrapped in Rexine and machine-stitched, fixed under the door and door-post lining.