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About CornishMade

  • Birthday 04/06/1971

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    family history/old things
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    print finisher

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  1. I saw this too, probably isn't the same but you never know with dad he may have seen it advertised, but he did have a lot of interest in gardner engines in general so may be that's where it came from
  2. Tony before I forget dad also mentioned he was sure he saw an advert at some point in his travels that peerless could come with an 'L' series gardner engine....didnt say were or when and I'm not sure if the advert would be among his photos or papers..he seemed to think you would understand....πŸ‘
  3. πŸ˜†πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ€£ dad may be wrong as it may well have been 1984 and 1986 it was while I was at secondary school and that was 1982 until 1987, and I used the photos in my English language exams( o' levels and cse🀭) so may well have been, it may have felt faster as wooden wheels and everything vibrating and rattling..including our teeth, we followed up in the car and the lorries went by low loader rather windy may bank holiday weekendπŸ‘πŸ‘
  4. i wont put up too many pics as this thread isnt about this peerless but this was dads handy work
  5. Morning, I'm down with dad at the moment, read out all the comments, Yes dad said he had similar issues when it came to nuts and bolts he found some Leyland valves cut the threads off and made them to fit, and Albion reiver donated bushes for the back end, and apparently a local bookmaker supplied the leather for the clutch, an engineering firm did the front springs and he says the copper pipe from carb to the petrol tank was 3/8" Originally a sand tip was moved ie they reduced the size down and took away the sand and the lorry was discovered underneath,It was used by parkin and Peter's a clay company for transport, rumour has it they had 2, one number plate..while one was being loaded the other was delivering and once back they would swap the plate and drive the full one out and start loading the empty one 🀭. my dad's dad (my grandad) actually got it put in the clay museum but he passed away before he could restore anything. Father then took over about 1978 and went from there, we did local rallies with it driving it there usually, and in 1982 and 1984 dad did the London to Brighton in it and finished twice, first time only casualty was the tank for the carbide lamps came off, second time no issues and the Dennis fire engine in our class said we clocked 22miles per hour down hill on the straight....bit of vibration there, we continued to rally it locally until about 1997/98 then dad started having issues and needed bypass surgery...wasnt able to do much after that and it still up in the wheal martyn china clay museum I can put the pics up later πŸ‘πŸ‘
  6. Evening folks, I had a good chat with dad today, he was impressed with the dashboard oil gauge you're making up, he said he had to fabricate a bottom piece for his and when it came to the glass tubes...somebody knew someone and they turned up, his suspicions they came from ecc labs but who knows...the next... the cab, he said he made a 'firewall ' of planks attached to a sheet of chipboard/something similar and all bolted together , not that thick , but we had a cab and windows, going by the pics a lot of the peerless trucks featured, have no cab or glass windows, like the sandstone one, and it could be the new owners of war surplus made them suitable for their own specific needs, I'm sure dad saw an old photo of a group of them bought for a haulier I think they were called Vincents local to us so that's probably why ours looks as it does, there may not be a right or wrong style other than the military version and they all seem subtlety different...πŸ‘ if that's any help.....
  7. I am seeing him tomorrow, I will ask, pretty sure it was planks, and uprights inside the cab and supporting corners either side as in the pic, unfortunately inside the actual cab is probably the only pic I dont haveπŸ™„
  8. Thankyou, I will I'm seeing him again Thursday, so will take him through the oil gauge your making up, I think the one dad had came from America..
  9. Hi folks, I cant remember what dad used but the pics are a past and present of the one he did, it was planks I think, we have been still watching although not logged in and I've been reading to dad how you have been going, his eyesight isn't so good and hes been in hospital twice since may, currently hes still in so I'm still reading out what you get up to, your doing a brilliant jobπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’“
  10. We have been watching this post with a great deal of interest, and I have been updating dad with it as far as possible with the isolation rules applied, out of interest if you can get the Smithsonian channel, America in colour, the episode with Ford, firestone and Edison has a great deal on ww1 and the car and truck industry and a convoy of ww1 cross the country, they are often repeated so may be worth a view
  11. Hi tony I have shown all this to Father, and he said where we could we used original , but he had to put a tap down through ours and used high tensile screws, 5/16 if this is any help,
  12. Father says sand blast the metal liner so the leather will bond to it better, ours is the same, our one was made new to fit with girls punched out , using various local facilities
  13. Totally loving this, I think someone will have to visit and see this is going it's good to know that something that was left that long is still good on the inside, even if the outside is notπŸ’—πŸ’—
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