Squire's voitures

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I don't think are more than a handful left. I've never seen one, but a gorgeous example perfectly mellowed by age and perfectly usable 'as is' sold, IIRC, on eBay a few years ago for £2500. Some stupid cunt probably restored it.
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Why didn't you tell me about it?
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Hooli wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 9:53 pm
SiC wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 9:48 pm It's round wheel arched model. Why is such thing seen as so desirable by the Midget fanatics?
1,275cc is the best engine & the round wheel arched cars are considered the best looking. I don't really know why MG when back to the flat rear arches at the time.
Crash regs. RWA with rubber bumpers wouldn't pass. SWA did.

Round arches solved the limited wheel and tyre combination issue as well.
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Before the April St. George's Day Rally I broke out the Autosol and set to work on the chrome. Since getting the car I hadn't given the brightwork any attention and there was some shadowing where the badges once were. Things came up very pleasingly, though the egg-crate grille was a pain to do.
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Revel in the glory of my peaked sidelights,
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peaked headlights,
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and peaked rear lights.
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The bumpers have seen better days as they badly scratched and scuffed in places. With re-chroming at around £800 per bumper this isn't going to happen. I find a better used part. It makes no difference to me as I am sat in the driver's seat.
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Beaulieu turned up some parts I actually needed. I bagged a complete side/indicator lamp unit I fitted, and a lens for the other side. Both existing lenses were broken and the weather seals defective. The new unit is fitted with a 6/21w bulb as per specification, I had to replace one not long ago with a 5/21w, which is all you have been able to get for donkey's years, so I will just swap the spare bulb of the correct 6w sidelamp rating over. The mint reflector combined with the 1 watt extra power makes a noticeable difference.
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Happen that looks shiny Mr Onions . I think Thee will win a prize at Tatton Park
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Your Squire has been busy product testing.
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A neat little period accessory ashtray from the well-known firm of Barnacle, makers of suction licence disc holders, ashtrays and parking lights &c. As I put the wireless set under the dashboard, the car's original ashtray was displaced. I spied a Hawk ashtray on eBay and unsurprisingly was the sole bidder. I did not want to alter the original in case the car is ever put back to standard without the wireless - unlikely but I don't like permanently altering things. With the replacement Hawk ashtray I can bash and bend it to my heart's content.
You can certainly tell the cheaper ashtray from the cheaper car.
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Unfortunately the slide runners differ and the proper Snipe tray doesn't fit. So I have to suffer the indignity of black plastic. My plan is to shape the bracket to fit under the wireless cage. I also have another Barnacle ashtray, a smaller magnetic version with St. Christoper (!) motif, which resides in my metal dash Morris.
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Tatton Park at the weekend, I won an award - 2nd place rare car - was chuffed to bits.
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The small autojumble yielded some useful spares, including a new AC petrolift, Minor quarterlight, battery terminals, screen washer bottle bracket, and a new seal for my brake master cylinder lid.
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I had been searching for a Negative Lucas 'helmet' battery terminal so I could put the Humber back to 'factory' specification, this is important to me and has included hunting down things like the correct Lucas torpedo 35 amp fuses. This is all done for myself, as I never enter competitions for prizes, that's not my thing. This weekend's prize was awarded by a judge who takes his pick of all the vehicles there.

So I had two of the correct battery terminals.
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I lopped the end off the Negative, these are from the days when British cars were predominantly Positive earth, of course mine was until someone decided to change it, possible due to radio fitment, and binned the original terminals instead fitting SMMT type.
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After the last disaster where I tried to un-join the wire from the clamp and ended up melting the lead terminal, a different approach was called for, viz. sawing off the lead and drilling out the remains, ready to inset the braided earth lead.
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Time for fire and flame.
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Soldered the starter switch terminal, doesn't look the best but a solid joint and I was wary not to use too much heat as the insulation (this for the Positive lead) was getting a bit soft.
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Remember my old coil purchase, which on closer inspection had a hole in the aluminium case? I patched it up as one member suggested. It showed good continuity across the low tension terminals so there was no reason why it would not work, but they are filled with oil to keep them cool, and if this somehow drains out, well...
I removed the newfangled Valeo coil, which in fairness was oil filled itself, as I could hear it when I shook it. So much bad press is given to modern parts but this was fine and I only changed it for originality's sake.
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The Lucas coil was also much larger in size. I made sure I got the polarity correct, particularly essential when the car has been converted to Negative earth like this one. Valeo coil is marked + and - but I much prefer the simpler and easier to understand CB and SW. One connection wasn't looking so good.
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So I sorted it out re-using the original connection.
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All that was left to do was connect everything up and test. The battery tray has to come out for access to various things, and I removed it to get at the earth lead. Quite pleased with my handiwork, I turned the key and..........
it fired straight up. Seems to start better and run smoother with this ignition coil. I am keeping the Valeo one in the boot as a precaution.
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The eagle-eyed and knowledgeable among you will spot a slight 'problem' with the battery connections. It's not the missing terminal post screw - clue: it's to do with polarity.

At long last I found a replacement quarterlight at Tatton, so fitted that to the Moggy, along with the old seat covers. These duotone interiors never wore well and this one is looking very tatty now.
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That'll be it now for the Traveller until later in the year when it goes in for some much-needed major work.
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Being a clumsy individual, those bare battery busbars would scare me. Pretty certain I'd forget about them being exposed and put a spanner on top of the battery.
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Is the thing wrong on the battery, a battery terminal cover for the positive feed?
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