chummys with one piece screens

[JonE]

Are there other standard SWB tourers out there with other than two piece screens please? Wanted to explore whether there are original variants, perhaps abroad, as well as those cars which may have converted screens.
Any information you can yield?

[Ian Dunford]

Australian Chummies have one piece screens.

[JonE]

ah great. So presumably South African perhaps too. I wonder why, as potentially need for air would surely have been greater?

[Mike Costigan]

I think South Africa took Longbridge-built cars, unlike the majority of Australian cars which had locally-sourced bodies.

[Bill Sheehan]

JonE -  Greetings.  The Aussie one-piece screens came in two heights and were made here.  Re the air - they open out at the bottom & the top!.    The pillars were thick, solid brass, (including the lamp bracket at the base on the early versions), and quite heavy, unlike the semi-circular, thin Longbridge ones. The swivel point was about 2/3s up each pillar and regulated by a large wing nut each side..  Cheers, Bill in Oz

[Monsdonnet]

ah great. So presumably South African perhaps too. I wonder why, as potentially need for air would surely have been greater?

Surely the opening screen was intended more for visibility in rain and snow?

[Bill Sheehan]

Mosdonnet - I wrote that from Australia, remember - What rain or snow?   Seriously though, all Sevens here of that era had windscreen wipers.  Cheers,  Bill in Oz