Chummy door checkstraps

[Nick Salmon]

At the moment the Chummy has not got any checkstraps on its doors. Were they fitted as standard? If so, could a kind soul please post some pictures to give me a guide?

[Tony Griffiths]

These are not, of course original, but one shows a very neat arrangement and the other how the strap is bolted to the frame (in this case by Bodger No.1) in a more workaday solution.

[Renaud]

Arrrhh, that's rude... (the last!)

[Robin Oldfield]

When it comes to later tourers there appears to be a much cleaner way of attaching check straps.  The attached photo is of a restored LWB tourer which has a check strap fitted like the chummy shown above and just like those illustrated in the Rinsey Mills book for an RP.  However (and ignoring the non-original style of door card) if you look above it you can see a recess in the door frame and a channel in the A post behind which there is a fixture to hold a vertical pin through a loop in the strap.  I don't know if the RP also has such a structure and never having examined an original tourer I am unsure as to whether this much more satisfactory arrangement was actually used.

   

[Nick Salmon]

Thanks chaps

[Mike Costigan]

Original check-straps on David Howe's car:

   

Straps are made of a sacking material, wrapped in Rexine and machine-stitched, fixed under the door and door-post lining.