The "Rolvisor"

[Tony Griffiths]

Does anyone know anything about this "Rolvisor" - advertised for an Austin 7.

[stuartu]

https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/118749/page/287

Tony, this link should take you to a page of the Autocar from 18 Oct 1935 which shows the device.

Regards,

Stuart

[Duncan Grimmond]

That link took me to a magazine cover page with subscriber option link...

[andrew34ruby]

That link took me to a 1935 page from the Autocar and at the bottom of that page it shows an excellent drawing of the Rolvisor. It looks to be a good idea, a sort of variable-size of sun visor.

[Mike Costigan]

  Rolvisor.JPG (Size: 29.23 KB / Downloads: 207)

[stuartu]

Sorry about that, Duncan. Another computer idiosyncracy I suppose.

Regards,

Stuart

[Chris Garner]

George Beaton and Son Limited. Founded 1881. George's father, Samuel, was a wheel chair manufacturer. Over the years manufactured motor and aircraft fitting. Became a Public Company in 1928 and is now a division of Fanuc Robotics, whom I believe supplied robots for the manufacture of the Metro at the Longbridge West Works - the most advanced robotic manufacturing plant at the time in the world.

[Tony Griffiths]

Thanks, Stuartu—that was most interesting. Also, on that page, I'd not seen something I'd seen before—a magneto built in the style of and interchangeable with a distributor.

[A G Wood]

Re:  The magneto 'drop in'  distributor conversion, as well as BTH both Lucas and Scintilla  did camshaft speed magnetos in the  
traditional distributor form factor. 
The Scintilla version was their 'Vertex' model. I think the Lucas equivalent was their VR range, which actually looks a lot like the BTH one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326385706575?...SwCNNnbxAz

[Duncan Grimmond]

Thanks for that, perhaps Macs respond strangely.
I like the idea of the BTH mag drop-in... I still have a Velocette Venom with a BTH mag... the chap I bought the bike from had taken it out to replace it with a home-cooked version of a coil ignition system using a FoMoCo points set and a pair of 6v coils... some sort of "go-faster improvement". Fortunately he'd kept it and it went straight back in as soon as I got home.