Suedehead:
01
Cant work out the reg on the unit. Any ideas where it hailed from ?
Bit of a wild guess Australian Tasmania mebbe?
Oily
oiltreader:
Suedehead:
01
Cant work out the reg on the unit. Any ideas where it hailed from ?Bit of a wild guess Australian Tasmania mebbe?
Oily
Definitely not Tassie, Oily.
Star down under.:
oiltreader:
Suedehead:
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Cant work out the reg on the unit. Any ideas where it hailed from ?Bit of a wild guess Australian Tasmania mebbe?
OilyDefinitely not Tassie, Oily.
If he is from Tassie, I hope that he is on night out money coming out of Dover Eastern Docks. 
I think C. F. was correct when he mentioned Malta.
trucker.blackpool:
Dipster:
Buzzer:
BuzzerNice driving, spacious car. I particularly liked the Wolseley automatic version. The car shown is a comparatively rare Morris. Most were Austins.
They were all ‘land-crabs’ for good reason
T.B
I had several 1800’s: Austins. A manual which was good, but it went rusty. Then another manual which came with 3 tea chests with bits in, plus a block. The tea chests had all the bit’s to make an engine so I got to measuring. The bores were +0.060" oversize and straight as a die all parallel with no wear ridge. The crank was 0.010" under (I think) but no shells. When I went to measure the pistons I noticed they were all on the con rods the wrong way round. Then the penny dropped: someone assembled it and if the big ends didn’t hit the block (never tried it) it must have had horrible piston slap when it started up, so whoever did it took it all apart again after spending plenty of money on bits. The head was all good too. Bought some con rod and main bearings and it went like a dram when I started it up. Then I bought an auto for A$82.50… (no I don’t know where that price came from) with a knackered transmission. The drive plate had a big split in it, but I having got that far I got it all out, stripped it down and sent the converter away to be done up while I put new clutches and bands in and stripped out and cleaned the valve body. I took the engine out of the manual that I’d done up and she drove like a dream. So much room inside and a lovely ride. I had one more manual, but that one had knackered bushes at the back end that gave it positive camber. I didn’t have a press or any way of making a good job of getting the fluid out and putting it back in, so I made spacers for the back wheels. I’d still have one now except there’s none about that don’t need loads of work that I’m not up to anymore.
You saw E-series ERFs with tilts on traction work but they were a rarer combination with matching tilts. Here’s a fine example:
Carryfast:
Suedehead:
Cant work out the reg on the unit. Any ideas where it hailed from ?Malta looks like a good and impressive bet
Cheers, will go with that
Suedehead:
Carryfast:
Suedehead:
Cant work out the reg on the unit. Any ideas where it hailed from ?Malta looks like a good and impressive bet
Cheers, will go with that
It rang a bell from some old road trips to Enna in Sicily.They usually used UK traction contractors to drop and collect trailers to/ from Reggio in Italy where they were sometimes picked up or dropped by Maltese based units.This one looked like an all the way trip.
Also managed to get this rare one in the pits at a recent motor racing trip to Monza earlier in the Summer.
DIG:
one for Buzzer and SpardoDig
I hope he wasn’t waiting in the queue as long as I’ve been waiting to read this. 
Spardo:
DIG:
one for Buzzer and SpardoDig
I hope he wasn’t waiting in the queue as long as I’ve been waiting to read this.
Hope you didn’t use cow carting language while waiting : 
Dig
DIG:
Spardo:
DIG:
one for Buzzer and SpardoDig
I hope he wasn’t waiting in the queue as long as I’ve been waiting to read this.
Hope you didn’t use cow carting language while waiting :
Dig
Sorry to say, loads of it. 
