What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Douglas Alderson]

One carb is off a different car which has a SU on at the moment, the brass one off the car I was working on.  Having not working on this type of carb before as the top one was off the car it was used as tester to see how it came apart as the jets in the brass on were stuck.

[Reckless Rat]

No Sevening today, it's a bit warm...

[Ivor Hawkins]

73 degrees here on the Isle of Wight, perfect for putting the engine back together on the box, with a small beer on hand in case I see a snake as someone once said

[John Mason]

Very nice but it can get to much. I hope it cools down on Monday and Tuesday of next week when together with my wife we are travelling down through France to Stresa in Northern Italy. Hopefully the train will be air conditioned.

John Mason.

[bob46320]

Yes,  its good to be in the cool !!

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Meanwhile in Weegieland, I had to put my Harris Tweed bunnet on to protect my forehead!

[Reckless Rat]

Was that to keep it dry or to protect it from frostbite?

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Both, at various stages of the day!

[Steve kay]

This afternoon seemed a perfect time to leap into the Ruby and whiz to Brecon for a little detective work. Like any motor sport history anorak, I'd wondered whether there had been a hillclimb at Brecon in 1921, and whether there were cars as well as motorbikes. An hour or so going cross eyed in front of the microfilm reader studying local papers came up with the answer. Wednesday 17th August 1921 saw a hillclimb up Warren Road, just to the west of the town. Primarily motorbike entries, but there was a class for Light Cars. Best time, of 1 min 30 secs went to Luther Davies in his Morgan, C. Morgan driving a GN came second with 1 min 41 secs. The reports did not indicate if they were the only two, or just the award winners. Luther also took best time for 350cc class, his Cotton Blackburne doing 1 min 26 secs. The hill was 1 ⅛ miles long, and not very tortuous. It is also not very steep, being third gear all the way up in a Ruby so not quite like Shelsley.
Luther Davies must be well known to motor cycling historians. He offered competition bikes for sale from his works in Garnant both before and afterWW1, as well as claiming speed and hillclimbing as his speciality. For  someone wanting to try a  second hand bike he said "Choose your hill and name the time!"
Scanning local papers can be puzzling. In the twenties there seemed to be continual disputes as to whether boating should be allowed on a Sunday. So no matter how badly LCES entrants may behave at the Metropole in Llandod on a Saturday night, no boating on the lake on Sunday morning! Like any of the forum readership with a group G licence  I was worried by the headline referring to a steam roller "bolting" out of control in Knighton. It mounted the pavement and hit the Swan Hotel, be careful now, Hedd!

   

Looking down the steepest bit with mountains in the distant heat haze.

[Chris KC]

I found a 1930's newspaper under my floorboards when I moved in, it was mostly full of stories of people drowning while swimming in rivers. There was one near-drowning where a bystander leapt in to the rescue; meanwhile someone helped themselves to £6 out of his jacket pocket! And subsequently got two years' hard labour for the crime...