05-01-2022, 09:27 PM
I am never quite sure what constitutes "originality". Cars get serviced and repaired during their working life, often with parts and accessories that were available at the time. Lucas, for instance, often deleted earlier parts from their exchange catalogue where a later part would do just as well. Any car, however original it may be will have seen service purely as a car and serviced and repaired as required simply to keep it running. Such repairs (assuming they have been competently done) become part of the history of that particular car. Each car therefore becomes an individual.
To return to the point of this thread, given that Jubilee clips have been around for a very long time and certainly were available pre-war, and given that they are probably as good as if not superior to many other designs of hose clips, can their fitment not be regarded as "original"?
As I have mentioned in these pages before, my own car is more or less as it was built by the factory in 1933, despite having been substantially renovated almost 50 years ago. I try therefore to keep my car in the plight and condition in which it was when I bought it simply to preserve both it and its history. And, yes, it has Jubilee clips on it (new) water hoses (the ones fitted had gone hard and had started to weep at the ends) and I do not have coolant leaks.
To return to the point of this thread, given that Jubilee clips have been around for a very long time and certainly were available pre-war, and given that they are probably as good as if not superior to many other designs of hose clips, can their fitment not be regarded as "original"?
As I have mentioned in these pages before, my own car is more or less as it was built by the factory in 1933, despite having been substantially renovated almost 50 years ago. I try therefore to keep my car in the plight and condition in which it was when I bought it simply to preserve both it and its history. And, yes, it has Jubilee clips on it (new) water hoses (the ones fitted had gone hard and had started to weep at the ends) and I do not have coolant leaks.