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Whats the oldest car you have driven ?
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Kaybee



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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
a '26 Garford 3 ton delivery van, had just rebuilt the sleeve valve engine and gave it a short run...discovered that rear wheel only brakes on a 3 tonner are interesting.... Shocked ..and while I was working at the same place, a couple of 12/40 Alvis's.
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Scotty



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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kaybee wrote:
a '26 Garford 3 ton delivery van, had just rebuilt the sleeve valve engine and gave it a short run...discovered that rear wheel only brakes on a 3 tonner are interesting.... Shocked ..and while I was working at the same place, a couple of 12/40 Alvis's.


Kaybee - may I ask, was it a double or single sleeve-valve engine?

I have an interest in these engines and have yet to hear either type running. From contemporary advertising of the period manufacturers boasted they "are almost silent" and I've always wondered if that was in comparison the chattery old external mechanismed side-valves of the time, where in actual fact were noisy themselves, however less so than the side-valves.

Scotty. Wink
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old gto



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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got to drive our 1931 Chevy a bit before we found the termites, and started tearing it down for re-build.
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Kaybee



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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scotty wrote:


Kaybee - may I ask, was it a double or single sleeve-valve engine?

I have an interest in these engines and have yet to hear either type running. From contemporary advertising of the period manufacturers boasted they "are almost silent" and I've always wondered if that was in comparison the chattery old external mechanismed side-valves of the time, where in actual fact were noisy themselves, however less so than the side-valves.

Scotty. Wink


Hiya Scotty, it was a double sleeve,Knight Patent design. It was reasonably quiet for a commercial engine of that period, but it had an Alloy crankcase that was solid mounted to the frame, so that may have made some contibution to the noise factor. It did run very well and seemed quite strong on the road. Later on I had a friend with a later Willys Knight, it was a high mileage unrestored car and it smoked like a chimney but was very quiet in the engine, so maybe there was something in their claims, cheers, Col.
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Penman



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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi
Mine was '34 Austin Ten, it was 25 years old when I learned to drive, and passed my test, in it.
Cost my father £10:10s as a non-runner on which we did a top overhaul using "The Book Of The Austin Ten" borrowed from the library.

Later on we also did the big ends (scraped in white metal) and piston rings, it was also resprayed out of doors using one of those cylinder vacuum cleaner spray guns and household gloss paint whose name escapes me but I think it started with VAL.
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pigtin



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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Valspar! They used to have an advert showing boiling water from a kettle being poured over the top of a table... though why anyone should paint their table with it escaped me. Ideal for painting engines with though. Cool
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Valspar, of course, that's the one.
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