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trampintransit · Joined: 09 Aug 2010 Posts: 166 Location: Edinburgh

Not a Morris but I think you guyswill know?

My missus has a Wolseley 1500, the dynamo is labelled as an LRD100. ... is that right? It does the job but just doesnt seem to line up without the prolific use of spacers and long bolts?

Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 381 Location: Padiham

Lucas C40 will be the correct one. LRD100 is probably a re-work number.

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bjacko · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:36 am Post subject: Wolseley 1500 Generator/Dynamo

The Lucas manual states that a Model C39PV-2 type L-0 was fitted to 1958-59 cars P/N 22258F which is 3.9" diameter and the 1960 models were fitted with a Model C40-1 Type L-0 which is 4" diameter P/N 22700D and some had P/N 22704A units also 4" dia.
There is no ref to LRD100 and could be a rework or from some other manufacturer or a different era.
They all appear to be the same length as they use the same through bolt.

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4104 Location: South Cheshire

LRD100 is a currently made Lucas copy/ equivalent 4" dynamo that replaces the C40, they are not sold on an exchange basis, so I suspect they are new. TRW who acquired Lucas use LRD prefix for Lucas Dynamos and LRA for alternators.
You see them sold under many brand names (including Lucas), made in the east and seem to work well, some of the internals actually have the Lucas brand in the castings, so I suspect someone bought up Lucas tooling from TRW, or TRW outsourced the manufacture ?

Dave