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Penman
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Hi
Just found this, a Dennis van built for Sunlight c1935.
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Peter_L
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| Don't you just love the clean lines ? |
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colwyn500
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| peterwpg wrote: | | Don't you just love the clean lines ? |
Hehe.!  |
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ka
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It always makes me smile when I look at photos of this era, and also owning a 40's car with a fold down screen. The split screen, particularly the opening front screen highlights the speed the cars and lorries travelled at, but moreover, were summers hotter?
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roverdriver
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An advantage, Ka, of the split windscreen, is that if the wipers fail during a downpour, the windscreen can be opened sufficiently to be able to see where one is going.
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peter scott
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| ka wrote: | | particularly the opening front screen highlights the speed the cars and lorries travelled at, but moreover, were summers hotter? |
Probably not but the insulation of engine heat into the driver's compartment was minimal when compared to today's vehicles.
My old car has opening quarter lights and a sun roof but when opening the roof would let in direct sunlight just opening the windscreen an inch or two gives the best form of ventilation.
Before I fitted a heater to my car I found that opening the sun roof in winter was a good way of keeping warm as the wooden floor boards are far from hermetic and with a large exhaust pipe down each side of the car a significant amount of warm air was drawn in.
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ka
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My Morgan does not need wipers, and therefore washers when it was MOT'd because it has a fold flat screen.
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PAUL BEAUMONT
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Yes ka I can see that washers could be a bit embarrassing. 
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Roger-hatchy
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A squeeze bottle and a squeegee will suffice.
Or do you do the same as I do a twist of the head clears the goggles. |
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