lynx42 Rick Cove

7 hours ago, Tony B said:

Lynx , I'd love to se ewhat happens if you use it to tow another old car to a modern garage and say 'Hey Mate,can you give me hand figure out why it won't run?' 😁

Tony, whilst not wishing to hijack this great thread about the 3/4 ton Dodge, the Studebaker used to tow this 1915 Weaver auto ambulance before it obtained the crane set up.  This is a photo of the weaver in use in Bairnsdale Australia behind the ute before the crane was fitted.  The model 'T' Ford looks a bit sad. Ther weaver Auto Ambulance is in excellent condition.

I have owned a 1916, 1919 and 1924 Dodges and I think that your Dodge is a bit later than 1917/18.  More likely 1924.  The earlier Dodges had a smaller radiator and the rear springs were 3/4 cantilever springs not semi-elliptical as seen on your Dodge. The dashboard also points to mid-1920's.  The chassis number should be stamped on the centre cross bearer about under the front seat.

Keep it as found and retain the patina.  Here in Australia there is a car club known as the Feral Car Club.  It only has original style un restored vehicles like yours which are fully restored mechanically but hardly touched otherwise.  I have a 1924 Studebaker tow truck which apart from the canvas hood and a set of tyres is ready for the road.Almost 1200 hours have gone into it and you cannot see what I have done.

The forth photo is of a Rolls-Royce tender with the dual wheel spares on the rear.  Having a single spare wheel on the running board shows that it does not have duals on the front like this one.

Unfortunately those outside of  the UK cannot see your posted link.

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Looking good.  You don't seem to have a lot of room to work upon the roof with the roof frames so close,  and I do hope the roller door is not all the way up or you will have to let the air out of the solid rubber tyres. LOL!    When I restored my Albion A10 I only had 1.5 inches clearance both sides and to the bottom of the open roller door to the top of the front board.  The canopy frames had to be made removable as the canopy was about 8 inches higher than the door opening.

Doc, that alloy maggy switch is identical to the one on my 1916 Albion A10.  Fortunately I have one, although a spare could always come in handy, just in case.

Cheers Rick.

September 6th 1920.

This is a new thread branching off from the great thread on the Karrier WDS.  Survivors started to be listed within that thread and proved that there was a need for a separate thread of it's own.-

Please list and add a photo of any or all the PRW WAR SURVIVORS you know of from any country world wide.

I'll start it with my 1916 Albion A10 Chassis number 361A which was laid down on 6th December 1915 for completion mid-February 1916.

Cheers Rick.

Great idea to list all of the Pre War trucks (lorrys), but I think they need a seperate self standing thread.  I'm happy to start it with my 1916 Albion.  So look out for a new thread named  PRE WAR SURVIVORS.

Richard,  Thank you and keep them coming.  I appreciate the Albion A10 articles you have sent to me in the past.  Thank you once again.

Keep well.

Rick.

49 minutes ago, G506 said:

 

The hunt for an engine and gearbox continues, no leads so far, but I did manage to track down a gentleman who owned an engine, unfortunately 30 years ago! I desperately hope that engine still exists, and is laying forgotten at the back of a workshop somewhere. 

Keep looking,  It took me 29 trips over about 16 years to locate another engine for my 1916 Albion A10.  I had found a front axle for it in the New South Wales town of Cooma and was informed that an engine existed somewhere in the local area.  Before the 29th trip looking for it, my son said," Give it away Dad. You won't find it."  Stubborn I am and the 29th trip proved fruitful and I found the engine in a privet bush.

49 minutes ago, G506 said:

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I don't want to hijack your great restoration thread, but thank you for your prompt replies to my quest for hooks for my Albion.  Yes, they are quite different to the Peerless ones. Both the front and rear Albion ones are interchangeable I think and bolt to the outside of the chassis rails. They look like they are interchangeable left to right as well.  Thanks again and keep up the good work.

I am thoroughly enjoying watching this restoration, (as I have with the previous ones).  I don't suppose you have any spare front or rear hooks.  I have never been able to find any in Australia for my 1916 Albion. The closest I came to a set was on a Thornycroft J type wreck near Sale in Victoria, but when I went to get them the remains had been scrapped. It was far beyond restoration with the chassis completely rusted through and missing the engine and front axle.  This black and white photo is what I started with with my Albion, chassis number:- 361A. This is how it finished up after about 5,000 hours of work.  Thanks and keep up the good work.

On 2/16/2020 at 4:14 AM, Surveyor said:

Looking at this does anyone know if the size of the pick handle GS shovel and pick have changed over the years

I found this camouflaged G S shovel at a steam rally in 1993.  It is marked W/I\D. Be a bit hard to find it in the rose garden though.

In the days before the internet, sometimes, as we restored something, a bit of licence had to be used.  I was more than fortunate to obtain a WW1 spade dated 1917 and stamped ALBION, I had no idea that they made spades as well as vehicles, at an Aussie Disposals shop in Bairnsdale.  The shop owner actually put it aside for me knowing that I has my Albion.(I also picked up one dated 1944 stamped BEDFORD for a mates Bedford QL there as well.)

  I had no idea of the fittings and as I was in a bit of a hurry to get the vehicle ready for the Television Series, "The Anzacs" made here in Victoria Australia, I had to guess the best way to attach the tools to the side.  Later, via the internet and after a visit to the Albion Archives in Biggar Scotland, I realize that one day I will have get around to manufacturing the original style brackets.  

Attached is a photo I copied in Biggar in 2009 showing the correct placements and some photos of the fantastic apprentice made model they also have on display at the archives.  (There is also another model, the same, in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra which was presented to to AWM at the opening in 1941.) 

My tool fittings pass with a push with the uninitiated  as all the tools are WWI and are shown here.

Regards Rick.

Here in Australia, I have had this Fore Limber lying around for many years with the idea of restoration.  (Another Gunna!)

It was manufactured by R.S.J and is dated 1/1918.  Serial No. E.171564. 

Will it ever be restored by me. Well it is on the restoration to do list so who knows.  The biggest problem is the rivets holding the timber to the steel.  If you have an idea where I can obtain them, well that might move it up the list.

I have marked the correct location of the ID plate for those asking for the location.

Regards Rick.

Some images I have gleaned from the web.  Cannot tell when or where they came from as I have had them for a while.  Hope they help as they are official photos of WSC's for Airborne Forces.British.

You are doing amazing work.  Keep it up.  I do hope the Phillips head screws will be covered up. The credited inventor of the Phillips screw was John P. Thompson who, in 1932, patented (#1,908,080) a recessed cruciform screw and in 1933, a screwdriver for it.  After failing to interest manufacturers, Thompson sold his self-centering design to Phillips in 1935.

There is nothing which gets my goat more than Phillips head screws on a restoration predating the invention by Thompson of the square headed screw slot Phillips Head screw.

As I said, amazing work.

On 2/18/2019 at 6:37 AM, BenHawkins said:

Wow, it has been a year since the chassis arrived and I have only really managed to do research!

I like the idea of restoring this one as a commandeered lorry made into a mobile workshop. So when I saw this Austin lighting set I had to add it to the collection (I do like T head engines with separate cylinders).

It needs quite a lot of work as the water jackets are split, it has the wrong carb and has been converted to coil ignition. The dynamo is just as bad; seized, missing the rotor windings, commutator and brushes. Quite a lot of research to be done on this one too.

So it is a compound wound, 1200RPM 110Vdc 27A 3kW generator connected to what appears to be two cylinders from a 10HP 4 cylinder Austin built in 1914. Now I need to try to work out how the armature should be wound, I guess I should start by looking at the one in Duxford. Does anyone have any photos or information?

 

I have one of the Austin engines.  It is No. 136 with a hand etched ID plate.  It has a cast steel engine base so probably was not a generating set.  I found it in Mallacoota Victoria in 1976 and only managed to acquire it last year.  It is complete but I haven't got it rinning as yet.  Not sure what the radiator should be like either..  The generator is just sitting there to fill up space.

5 hours ago, Minesweeper said:

But what a price - £15.15 each!

The price is in the description, 'Bentley'.   I was chasing pistons for a Rolls Royce 20/25hp engine and the price was out of this world.  I cross checked the catalogue and found the same catalogue number was for a 6 cylinder Dodge truck piston.  Checked it out and the pistons were the same at less than 1/4 of the cost of the RR pistons.  Guess what pistons are still in the RR engine.

My immediate thought was that the truck closest to the camera was a 1933 British Bedford WGH like these two.

Are these your models or is someone else making them as well.  (Found on Col's Models.)

Great viewing and a bit of a laugh at times.  Only one good shot of an Albion A10 is where the horse drawn wagon comes out onto the road from the farm and he has to stop.  Plenty of other identifiable makes as well.  What would the Prince Henry Vauxhall car sliding about be worth today?.

A South Australian Light Horseman sitting on the rear wheel of an up turned truck in the Middle East in 1916.  What make of vehicle is it?  (I don't know, but it is not an Albion A10.)

10 hours ago, Ted170 said:

This one rocks! "In the workshop, 10 March 1917". That must be either Levunovo, or Kriva livada. Not sure about the truck type.

Looking at the third photo of the Benz engine, it identifies this truck as a Benz as well.   The engine is the same.  Great clarity in the photos and fantastic record of history.