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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Hi all,

Another from the "largely unloved and overlooked cars of the early 1950s" file, in the (I think) attractive form of a Lanchester LD10.

Shame the original number's been swiped off it, but otherwise I like it a lot.

http://ebay.to/2rsJiiw

RJ
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I know that I repeat myself, but I reckon that the Wilson box on Lanchesters and Daimlers puts folk off. I have no idea what the reserve is on this but right now it is ridiculously cheap fo a quality classic

mikeC · Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 4:40 pm Post subject:

What a wonderful instrument panel!
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petelang · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 444 Location: Nottingham

The Wilson box is virtually indestructible!
A wonderful piece of engineering and stands up to collosall wear. I should think it's an asset!
Peter

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 10:12 pm Post subject:

It is such a shame when the number gets taken off, its another piece of a cars history.
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I am 100% with you petelang. but it is not unusual and I hear lots of folk who say they would not have one just because it is out of the norm. We have similar issues with Jowetts. Because the engines are horizontally opposed folk are scared off despite the success of VW Beetles & Subaru using the layout. It is a colossal shame!

petelang · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 444 Location: Nottingham

Well Paul, when you consider that virtually the same gearbox, just a bit bigger, was fitted to the London Routemaster bus which probably made thousands of gear changes each day (eight stops to the mile at least, plus traffic) and these dear old things were still running 30/40 years later under even more arduous conditions they are a miracle of engineering.
In a former career I was involved with the repair and reconditioning of these on contract for London Transport and believe me they received the most appealing abuse. Wrong oil, virtually no oil, wrong air pressures, both too high, too low, incorrectly adjusted, you name it, but we used to pull them apart, renew the band linings, a few bearings and planet gear bushes and away they went again to do another million miles.
The duty cycle of a London bus gearbox is THE test for any bit of engineering survival. If it's good enough for that it should survive any average user of a vintage Classic car.
I bet these things would outlive anything used today, although the ZF Ecomat used in many vehicles (bus/trucks) is pretty good, as long as the oil is OK.
Peter