18-03-2021, 04:12 AM
The memsahib won't go for a drive in the tourer until I have a roof on it. In the wet season here it's very hot and humid and the sun can make it unbearable in both the wet and the dry seasons. I am working with a very skilled upholsterer towards putting a hood on it but we are having trouble working out the bows. All the images we have seen have the bows mounted externally on the bodywork but my tourer has the threaded (3/8" W) fixing plates mounted on the inside of the bodywork. There are two plates on each side, one 13" in from the rear of the body shell and the other a further 14" towards the front. Any assistance with sketches, drawings or information as to where I can locate such would be very much appreciated. Our thoughts are that we will bend the bows from circular, oval or rectangular material in SS, aluminium or mild steel. I would have liked to have inserted a photo but haven't worked out how to do that yet. The car originally had a hood but was wiped out many years ago when the cane cutters at Mizzi's farm discovered a deep ditch on the way home from the Halifax Commercial hotel one night. Sadly the hood irons and frames were not salvaged.