UY 7869 & RX 9192

[Monsdonnet]

This website contains several thousand images of various types, including road vehicles. Amongst them can be found this 1930 saloon, and it still exists...... as does Ulster RX 9192 which can be found elsewhere on the website.... does anyone here own them?


http://www.na3t.org/road/photo/JM00999-05

[JonE]

here is the other... taken in 1954. 
Just come across it (and this thread) as it has an adjacent engine number to a new 'Special' find on facebook.
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[Henry Harris]

RX 9192 is alive and well and owned by an old school friend of mine.

[Erich]

I'll note RX 9192 has had some modifications. Of course, open center wheels. Also bucket seats with a hose run around behind the back. It has the works option Luvax shocks. Which begs the question. Does any of the surviving EA Sports still use these shocks and how well do they work? And some odd routing of the exhaust.

Erich in Seattle

[JonE]

Wouldn't open centre wheels be standard by a B4- series car?

[Erich]

That may be, Jon. I don't think the works would stick with something on a sports, if an improvement had been available. That said, it seems that not all later cars carried 10 stud blocks.

Erich in Seattle

[DavidK]

My July 1931 RM saloon has closed centre wheels and is a B4 series car.
Rinsey Mills book says:
"...June 1931, a further increase in spoke diameter and wheel centres of thicker gauge steel..........November 1931 around chassis 138530 , anew style of wheel with 12 outer and 24 inner laced spokes and pressed in stainless steel  wheel centre..."

[Henry Harris]

B1-8751, VE 4492 was fitted with Luvax shock absorbers by the works and they were still fitted in 1986.