Hi ' I don't want to get into the chummy bit, but having recently bought a 1929 AD tourer. I am interested in some of the points on this car as factual. I would be pleased to have these points confirmed or otherwise.
1. Is the fuel tap correct , mine is different.
2. The drivers side screen is it correct with the flap ( my Clifton tourer has this but I don't remember seeing 7's with it.)
3. Again on side screens, the mounting holes in the doors / rear on my car have a threaded hole to take a retaining sets crew as does my Ape Opal stopping the screen form vibrating out. The car illustrated only appears to have one on the drivers side situated on the from of the rear screen assembly.
4. Is the starter button correct or would my earlier car have a different arrangement..

Thanks for any forthcoming comments.
Derek

Location: Oakley hants

Hi Derek,

my thoughts are:

1. Yes, for this car.

2. No, not an original adaptation.

3. The side screens should sit in holes without any kind of locking mechanism on this car.

4. Yes, for this car.

Thanks Ruairidh.
My car has the threaded holes in the mounts and has somebody has otherwise upholstered the side panels very nicely but cut around the mounts I think that I shall use the setscrews, which by the way look very original. Just make a few more for the missing ones. Gordon's earlier chummy screens jump out each time he hits the notorious bump out of the village so tends not to fit them unless it's heaving down.
Compared your hood arrangement on the 12 to Barry Mulroys Earlier version and can now see how your screen evolved.

Location: Oakley hants

Derek,

Ian tells me that his '29 AD had these set screws when he purchased it in 1970 - they were located through the side panels (i.e. no cut outs) having described them to me I am certain I have some (with countersunk washers?) on a piece of timber which I will look out and photograph.

Well I'm glad that I am not imagining them. I really couldn't see that once fitted to a car that they would then be removed. Thanks Ruairidh

Location: Oakley hants

I can't vouch for the originality, Derek, but my '29 AD had the sidescreen locking screws when I bought it and they looked old enough to be original then.
As an aside, they are identical to the same items on my pal's 1926 heavy 12/4 Clifton.

Ian Mc.

Location: Shropshire

Thanks Ian
Strange thing is my 1926 A12 Clifton has regular 1/4" set screws fitted, oh dear looks like more research , think that I have a picture of Val Biro's Clifton somewhere, same year a month apart.
There, it is reported, a coincidence that both my car and Gumdrop were in the the same farm auction in the late 60's. Val did bid on what was eventually to be my car but the bidding went too high so he bought the other. He was always interested in my car when we met up at shows, but he never let on.

Location: Oakley hants