Hi
For what its worth, my very sprightly Uncle had one of these and commented
what a good little car it was. He bought his used sometime in the
mid 1930's and it ran very well. However, it developed a noise in the
rear axle & on pulling a half shaft found a groove in it where a bearing
was rubbing. He tells me that half shafts snapping was a common malady
of cars of the day (I think even early versions of the mighty TR2 did this)
so he got another half shaft & sold the car. He recalls that a visit to
any garage would reveal the place littered with broken half shafts ...
His favorite car ever was some ancient Singer, complete with 1/2 leaf
springs and a brutal cone clutch ("you were either over here or over there,
there was no inbetween, and you could go up a brick wall with it ...).
It had a simple gravity feed of the petrol tank to engine, with the
the tank directly above the engine - no safety regs then!
Regards, Adrian
asj@dsbc.icl.co.uk
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