Eye-catching black and whites

[JimH]

On 12/3/2020 at 11:24 AM, Skut said:

I’n no Aveling expert (when I win the lottery I am going to buy every Aveling and gas axe the lot) but it looks like nothing has broken there. It always surprised me on the Fowler that next to nothing held the fork into the sliding block in the perch bracket (the block let it swing from side to side) and you mainly relied on gravity to keep things in place. Since things like rollers tended to be rather feeble things (and Aveling singles were more feeble than a new born fawn) there was insufficient torque to pick the front up.

It looks like in the crash the front has been picked up and the fork has become disengaged.

Either that or the owner of the roller subscribed to Max Flattening and he had tuned his roller to make it way more powerful. It is possible that what we are seeing there is a very early car show leaving fail.

[Asimo]

Swansea

[Shite Ron]

[Remspoor]

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[busmansholiday]

3 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

'ole int' road as it was known. 

[Andrew353w]

30 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I just love those Hitman Imp estates, called the Husky. It seems Hillman managed to solve the problem of making an estate car with a rear engine, as that looks like a decent sized boot and not too high a floor, either. Did they make a van version of this, or is my memory playing tricks on me?

[martc]

4 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

 Did they make a van version of this, or is my memory playing tricks on me?

Yup, originally sold as the Commer Imp Van, later as the Hillman Imp van - info here  https://www.imps4ever.info/family/van.html-

These weren't just windowless estates, they were designed as vans from scratch, in particular they had higher roofs designed to accommodate, of all things, milk churns.

 

[martc]

[artdjones]

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[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, martc said:

175,000 in use? Really?

[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Yup, originally sold as the Commer Imp Van, later as the Hillman Imp van - info here  https://www.imps4ever.info/family/van.html-

These weren't just windowless estates, they were designed as vans from scratch, in particular they had higher roofs designed to accommodate, of all things, milk churns.

 

And dear old Rootes tooled up for this when with a bit of extra tooling they could have made the Imp a true hatchback too.  The Imp was useless for any big luggage with it's daft opening rear window - I remember them in use.

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Not one for the superstitious that...

[sheffcortinacentre]

9 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

Sheffield "ol' int road" in the 80's I used t work in a cutlery factory about half a mile further on that road

[Remspoor]

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[Andrew353w]

1 minute ago, Remspoor said:

Why does that front remind me of the Simca 1000?

[busmansholiday]

1 minute ago, Andrew353w said:

Why does that front remind me of the Simca 1000?

Because it is a Simca 1100 with a bit of 'badge engineering".

[Andrew353w]

26 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Because it is a Simca 1100 with a bit of 'badge engineering".

Yes, of course! Simca were swallowed up by Chrysler, as were Hillman, as part of the Rootes Group. 

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Brake sharply and those cases will through the windscreen. Pretty wet ad - somehow extolling the lack of luggage space - but then the Beetle was worse...

I remember the early ones of these as second hand bangers - nicely made and finished but pretty  useless for carrying stuff...the all alloy engine was very prone to overheating once the rad got old.

Rootes were saddled with a new factory in Scotland by the Gov - bodyshells were shipped up there by train - not exactly a cost saver. Later in their blighted career Chrysler cheapened them as much as possible and they were then one of the cheapest cars on the UK market by the early 70's.

The 'Stiletto' and 'Californian' did not even get the opening rear window.

[Remspoor]

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[JimH]

Can I have a colour one please? It caught my eye because it was put out by my Grandfather's garage.

 

 

[artdjones]

Two from Newport, Monmouthshire - home of the Mole wrench.

[Asimo]

Also Newport - stone tramroad sleepers. And a Wartburg.

And a Victor.

[artdjones]

I shouldn't make fun really, because the poor man is being told he's about to lose his job, but have you ever seen a better combover?