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Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Nick Lettington - 02-11-2024
I found this a bit interesting... It is almost certainly based on the Mk2 Speedex head (sometimes found with no name cast in) but the chamber shapes are a little different.
Does anyone know anything about this head?
caldo 1.png (Size: 554.99 KB / Downloads: 526)
caldo 2.png (Size: 557.73 KB / Downloads: 523)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156485750286?_skw=austin+7&itmmeta=01JBH7PDATV0Q1G8E2JX9J031Y&hash=item246f470e0e:g:6M8AAOSwKyFnIqTn&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKkmOj%2FGRHQ2v0INI7zRQDCTq6Rec342oBpMAlOFvuQnsK5fJA0clDSF6WD%2Fcsx%2F9DMQhL2F4KJpVLFj75f8Xscwu3wvOtUnSCKvSl95EyzW%2BBZ1Gu%2BfIOIX19avnw7%2Fl3X8JFtzkp83zBE5Wv%2FrpnJ%2FGB2hkvXTJooFTnOcXV8eMJwf1wAUf4v%2F5QRlzkz9E7ujbZv8bO2vachcjK%2Fq7iOimxxcrPsOAAoFttL9aT8mYw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR77V2afcZA
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Alan - 03-11-2024
Not a name I’ve come across before. Might be just the photograph but the casting looks a mite porous.
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Colin Morgan - 03-11-2024
Advert from 1962:
Caldo Advert 1962.jpg (Size: 59.88 KB / Downloads: 337)
This page refers:
http://www.fordspecials.co.uk/dante.html
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Chris KC - 03-11-2024
I believe Speedex packed up in 1962, and the addresses are barely 5 miles apart...
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Steve Jones - 03-11-2024
Robin Read traded as The Sporting Motorists Agency Ltd. producing components under the Dante name. Didn't he go to Lotus in 1959?
Steve
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Nick Lettington - 03-11-2024
That's great. I couldn't decide whether the head was old or a recent creation. I don't need it, but it's interesting how interconnected all the suppliers of special bits were
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - John Cornforth - 03-11-2024
Doesn't Caldo mean Hot in Latin ? Maybe a sign of a classical education. Dante certainly had an Inferno !
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Alan - 03-11-2024
Not really, but it does in Italian.
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - IanClayton - 04-11-2024
Robin Read's firm had Dan Taylor produce Dante (Dan Tay---) heads and subsequently Jem Marsh folowed from the same source ( the Horeston Horrors) with his Speedex heads, wheels etc --maybe your finned brake drums ??--- \\ so think this from Dan's shed.
Does anyone outv there know the sourcing foundries for " Cambridge" and Montgomery's "Super Accessories" heads??
RE: Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay - Malcolm Parker - 04-11-2024
I read somewhere that the Dante heads etc were made in Dan's garden shed using aluminium from scrap RR Merlin engines. I have an unused Dante head and the quality of the metal looks to be vastly superior to that of the Caldo head.