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[winchman]

Any idea what this gear box is from?

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[MikeEdwards]

It's a bit hard to tell, have you got a bigger photo?
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[peter scott]

If we assume that the flywheel is on the engine side of the box then the gear change is on the left side of the vehicle so I would assume it's not British.

Peter
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[Crashbox]

I would say it's likely to be from a tractor.
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[Penman]

Did they make the Riley Ditchfinder in LHD configuration?
OR was there a Continental or American car using the gear shift next to the door system?
If the lenght of the gear shift remote tunnel is not sufficient for that idea, what about a single seater with the driver sat virtually over the rea of the gearbox and the shift falling to hand on the left.
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[Ray White]

I would say it's very old; The casting is broken but not terminally so. The difficulty, as has been mentioned, is the LHD configuration. Even early European cars were RHD and I can't think of an American with that type of gear change.

A difficult thing to date let alone identify.

[winchman]

[Cargy]

This is surely just a separate right-hand drive, three-speed (?) and reverse, right-hand gate-change gearbox?

That “flywheel” is too small and would be on the end of the engine’s crankshaft/clutch assembly connected by a flexible composite disc to that three-fingered spider on the left-hand, front-end of this box – and it wouldn’t have bolts sticking out, which look like part of a drive-shaft coupling. It is more likely the drum of a transmission brake. That style brake could indicate it’s earlier but some Humbers from 1910 until at least 1927 had a separate gearbox with a fibre engine to gearbox coupling, a rear contractile transmission drum brake and a large diameter fibre coupling onto the Cardan shaft. Some separate Rovers boxes were a bit similar with a transmission brake until quite late. There were probably more likewise. DG.

[Ray White]

Cargy. I think you are right. What we have been calling a flywheel is in fact a transmission brake - common on many Edwardian/ vintage cars - and that makes it a RHD British car.

I may have mentioned the Adversane Scrap yard before... but I recall back in the 1970s seeing a shipping container stuffed full of these type of gearboxes (and crankcases).
The value was in the aluminium.

[winchman]

Just checked the threads and its metric
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[winchman]

Just checked the threads and its metric
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It will come in handy even if you never use it.