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Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

Bill Those AD's I have owned and examined certainly have the captive nuts as have two Ulsters I have examined, makes the rev counter and speedo fixing so much easier!

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

Having once had an AE Chummy registered 1930 I discovered that there is a significant difference in door dimensions from those of the AD. The AE doors are longer from front to back, and the outer panel overlaps the body rather than having a bead round the edge. Sorry I can't give the dimensions involved; more than 30 years have passed!

Robert

Location: just north of Cambridge

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

David - I'm sure you are correct, but were any of those Pram Hoods? Cheers, Bill

Location: Euroa, Australia

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

Two were, with AC bodies, one had a replacement dashboard and the other was when I was 18 and I cant remember whether it had captive nuts or not, on its original dash. So I'm afraid I can't answer your question.

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

I don't think my 1928 Chummy has captive nuts for the two switch panel screws but I believe the Speedometer does.

From memory the 1929 Saloon is similar.

I will have to check to confirm but I seem to remember having great trouble getting the switch panel nuts to stay in place.

Cheers, Tony.

Location: Malvern, Melbourne, Australia

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

My RK switch panel had 1" plus long screws (to ease assembly perhaps?)probably not original. The warning light has captive nuts (so you don't have to remove the whole panel to change the bulb?)

Location: Stratford upon Avon

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

My 1929 Fabric Saloon has captive nuts for the Speedo, but not for the switch panel. Also, the right hand side of the dash has a bulge in it at the top edge to allow the vacuum hose to pass through to the windscreen wiper.

As said earlier, there is a shallow recess pressed into the pockets for rigidity as the steel is really very thin.

Peter

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

I have an original R Saloon dash that has no nut plates at all, my 28 Chummy has nut plates on the speedo only and my 29 Fabric Saloon has nutplates on speedo only.
That was a strange situation at the time as it is just as difficult to get the nuts on the switch panel as it would have been on the speedo, odd they didn't think to put them on both. Ian

Location: Bristol

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

Perhaps it is all down to the way the production line worked, if you watch surviving film many pre made sub assemblies were picked from boxes and then fitted to the cars. It is probably simply that for some reason the switch panel was fitted off the car, and speedo once the dash was on the car. I have no conclusive proof of this, it just strikes me as a probable reason.

Location: NZ

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

Just checked the 1928 Chummy- no captive nuts on the switch panel screws - and it needs some work so out it comes.

Now I remember- I had to take the speedometer out to access the LH nut !

Cheers, Tony.

Location: Malvern, Victoria, Australia

Re: AD and AE Chummy dimensions - Help!

Looking at photo of the back of the dash on my '30 AE nut plates are usedfor speedo and oil gauges, the switch unit is nut and bolt.

Bryan

Location: Whangarei New Zealand