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Austinyork · Joined: 14 Apr 2014 Posts: 5

Hi ,

Could anyone please shed any light on this car, was led to believe it was a York but not to sure any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22840 Location: UK

I'll drop a line to an Austin fan I know, see what he thinks Smile

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JohnDale · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:35 am Post subject:

Hi, I would suggest it is a York 16 & not an 18 which was the replacement for the York. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C487207 cheers,JD.
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22840 Location: UK

From my vintage/early Austin contact:

"It is more than likely to be a short wheelbased York saloon, they also produced same on a longer wheelbase too.
The year of manufacture would be 1935 (or thereabouts)."

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Austinyork · Joined: 14 Apr 2014 Posts: 5

I thought it was but the norfolk early ones are similar. The engine inside is 18hp so all is good. Thanks

OuBallie · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:47 pm Post subject:

What were families supposed to do with luggage when off on holiday?
Loads of leg room for rear passengers but not much else, apart from using luggage racks, open to the elements.
Use the space in back?
Anyone know when the 'boot' was first introduced?

Geoff - Suffering from garden work yesterday and about to endure more torture Sad

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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:13 pm Post subject:

I guess you could send the luggage on ahead by rail. Yes it sounds absurd to us today, but back in the day it might have seemed perfectly reasonable. Mind you, how many cars of today are 4 or 5 seaters only so long as nobody has anything to take along? I know when 3 or 4 men share on the way to work a few coats and snap bags is about the limit for most cars.

colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

My 1935 Austin Ten, same shape as this, has a boot but that is only a sophisticated cover for the spare wheel. Rolling Eyes

I had a 1938 Cambridge which first appeared in 1936; that had a boot and because they put the spare wheel horizontally you would have been able to stuff a couple of black bags full of clothes into if there had been such a thing.

You were expected to buy a tailored trunk which fitted into the boot which best optimised the few cubic feet available.

For me the lack of heater and demisters would have been the biggest drawback in those days. It would probably have been best to wear all your holiday clothes for the journey as a convenient means of getting it to your destination!

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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Re-luggage, they also made trunks to be strapped on the luggage racks, there was a thread (about 6mths ago I think) showing one of the plusher ones, they might even have been arranged insuide like steamer trunks which become your wardrobe on board ship or at your destination.

We had one of those 20's-30's metal ones we used on the back of the family Austin 10/4.
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roverdriver · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:52 am Post subject:

For short-ish trips, say up to 500 miles, we would use a trunk mounted on the luggage carrier of the Model A.

The below photo was taken not far from Eucla- the border between South Australia and Western Australia. For that 5,000 mile round trip (Melbourne to Perth and back) and with two small children to cater for, plus spare water, oil and 10 gallons of spare fuel, along with spare tyres, food, camping gear etc., we used the two-wheeled luggage carrier.

The red mark on the car is a fault in the photo.
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I notice in the vehicles for sale etc thread that you mention not having a bottom pulley.
On this car what does it drive?
Is it fan and dynamo only with thermo cycle cooling or does it have a water pump?

Whichever it is some comparison of the revs range with other largish Austin engines of the period should enable you to get some idea of the ratios needed if you have the other 1 or 2 pulleys.
The front of the shaft gives you the internal dimension for the central hole and (at a guess the woodruff) key needed, the other pulleys also give you the belt receiving profile.
Then it should be a matter of finding a metal worker who can make one.
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