07-07-2020, 10:51 PM
Note from Chris Gould....
"I have just looked at that photo of the rubber with the groove in it again. I haven't checked but am almost certain that it wrong as the position of the groove would mean that the holes in the lip would be in a different position to normal. The hole for the wires go roughly through the middle of the flange. The groove would be too close to the body".
So, for later 65s and Nippies, something has changed if the earlier cars were all secured in that way.
It does force the issue of doing some forensic digging along the flanges of original Ulsters to see where the original holes were. Could there have been niggles with the way the scuttle rest was secured on them, that caused a revision on the similar scuttled 65?
"I have just looked at that photo of the rubber with the groove in it again. I haven't checked but am almost certain that it wrong as the position of the groove would mean that the holes in the lip would be in a different position to normal. The hole for the wires go roughly through the middle of the flange. The groove would be too close to the body".
So, for later 65s and Nippies, something has changed if the earlier cars were all secured in that way.
It does force the issue of doing some forensic digging along the flanges of original Ulsters to see where the original holes were. Could there have been niggles with the way the scuttle rest was secured on them, that caused a revision on the similar scuttled 65?