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1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - Tony Griffiths - 25-08-2022
.... in Australia. From a Facebook post.
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - John Cornforth - 25-08-2022
I like the early Roo Bars in the first picture.
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - Steve kay - 25-08-2022
Early roo bars and the outside quadrant gear change for additional,gears. Unless it’s a special with a GN solid back axle.
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - Ivor Hawkins - 25-08-2022
Now that’s what I call patina!
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - JonE - 25-08-2022
didnt it say that this had '36 mechanicals somewhere? Get it back on the road!
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - Mike Costigan - 25-08-2022
It's certainly got a 4-speed gearbox.
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - Tony Griffiths - 25-08-2022
...and, of course, a body in steel. Were all ordinary Sevens bodied in Australia in steel?
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - squeak - 25-08-2022
The 'roo bar' as you call it is actually part of a platform scale the Austin is parked over. The quadrant you refer to at the side is an early trolley jack.
RE: 1926 (?) Chummy - awaiting restortion... - Tony Press - 26-08-2022
(25-08-2022, 10:55 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: ...and, of course, a body in steel. Were all ordinary Sevens bodied in Australia in steel?
Chummy bodies from the UK Scuttle back were steel.
I believe Holden's made panels for a few other body builders making it difficult to assign a builder.
Bill Sheehan has added a few details :
To hopefully help, my research showed that the Oz steel doors and tubs only first appeared in late 1925 and early 1926 (mixed) and my restoration work seemed to confirm this.
I restored 4 or 5 bodies of that short period that had not only the steel body over aluminium scuttle but had local, ,central-hinged bonnets (3 instead of 2), As the 1925 Motor Show in England showed the curved scuttle-tops and lower windscreen frame, one would expect that was to be standard, but not so. Right up to April 1926 there was a mixture of flat-top and curved-top scuttles and I would suggest that most of the earlier style were unloaded on the ignorant Colonials !
In 1926 Holdens built some all-steel Chummys to Longbridge specs, but it would be totally wrong to say that most Australian Seven bodies were built by them, as many seem to assume these days. Hope I have helped not confused?
Bill Sheehan