[Mgs] Steering Wheel

[Barrie Robinson]

A long buried memory somewhere between my first walk without a nappy 
(diapers to the US bodies) and first erection (I had a Meccano set!) 
is the one about the MGB being the first vehicle to be officially 
crash tested - it passed with flying colours.  Anyone know anything about that?



At 10:02 AM 3/4/2010, MGBOB wrote:
>     There were some videos and still pics of MGBs being crashed into
>barriers.  If you could find these, they might help to answer the
>question of how closely one would approach the steering wheel in a crash.
>  My recollection is that the cars crushed in the front but that passenger
>compartment appeared intact.
>    I was thinking about this Tuesday night, returning from MG Club
>meeting, when a SUV pulled out from side road, apparently oblivious to
>high-beam headlamps and horns. My Kumho tires, recommended by Barney,
>gripped well on the damp asphalt.
>Bob
>
>
>
>On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:33:49 -0000 "Douglas McKinnie"
><d.mckinnie at usa.net> writes:
> > Silly question really, but my wife worries about my driving so much
> > in a car
> > without much modern safety equipment:
> >
> > Would the steering wheel here:
> > http://www.sciplus.com/index.cfm/go/front.tagged/tag/Steering
> >
> > ...fit my 70 MGB? It looks like it is intended for an TX4/TX11
> > London taxi by
> > LTI
> >
> > The Breed SRS-40 airbag has (if my google-fu is working correctly)
> > an
> > integral
> > inertial trigger, and engineers chose from 5 triggers depending upon
> > the
> > weight of the car. So one for an TX11 would be pretty incorrect for
> > an
> > MGB-GT...
> >
> > Lets see, a collision would have less inertial effect on the more
> > massive car
> > (1,815 Kg for the taxi) so the same trigger on an MGB would
> > effectively be
> > calibrated for a lower impact speed?
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Regards

Barrie
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