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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: DYNAMO PULLEYS • MORE ON LED’S • QUIZ ANSWERS Got a classic policy? RH guarantees to beat your everyday car’s renewal too! by Emma Airey, Head of RH Specialist vehicle insurance
If RH is already insuring your specialist vehicle, they will quote 10% less than the renewal premium for your everyday private car*. RH is best known for its specialist vehicle insurance, but they also provide highly competitive cover to owners of modern cars, along with the pleasing bonus of old-fashioned personal service.
But that’s not all.
RH’s fees for swapping vehicles, policy changes or mid-term adjustments are easy to understand: they’re £0.
Legal cover is a bargain too – if you’re already paying legal expenses cover (£10.50) for one car with RH, you can add as many vehicles as you like to your multi-vehicle policy, with no additional legal expenses cover payable. The cover will apply to all vehicles, with no limit on the total number of vehicles, or the mix of moderns to classics. In addition, every vehicle you add to the policy will earn its own multi-vehicle discount.
There’s even more good news, as UK and European breakdown recovery is standard with the RH package – for classic and modern vehicles.
*You’ll need to meet RH’s standard underwriting criteria and be claim-free in the last 12 months. Your current premium will need to match or exceed RH’s minimum premium (£240), which is periodically subject to change. As long as the cover is ‘like for like’ – that is, directly comparable**, it’s all good! Even if your renewal date is the best part of a year away, RH would be delighted to chat to you now about tailoring some top-notch, cost-effective cover.*** **RH reserves the right to request sight of your renewal notice for validation purposes. ***A change in your circumstances could impact any quotes previously provided.
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20142 08/19 MIDGET & SPRITE CLUB Quiz answers Got a classic policy? RH guarantees to beat your ISSUE 430 How many of you did the quiz last month? everyday car’s renewal too! The quiz itself was kindly sent in to me by Zoe by Emma Airey, Head of RH Specialist vehicle insurance Hawkins and Graham from the Wiltshire area. Thank you both. Here are the answers: WELCOME 1. Matt Goss If RH is already insuring your specialist vehicle, they will quote 10% TO THE JANUARY 2. Alex “Hurricane” Higgins less than the renewal premium for your everyday private car*. EDITION OF 3 Alfred Hitchcock 4. Anthony Hopkins RH is best known for its specialist vehicle insurance, but they also provide highly competitive cover MASCOT (Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE) to owners of modern cars, along with the pleasing bonus of old-fashioned personal service. 5. Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi). But that’s not all. NEIL THOMAS 6. Ainsley Harriot [email protected] RH’s fees for swapping vehicles, policy changes or 7. Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) 8. Melanie Griffith mid-term adjustments are easy to understand: Hello and a very Happy New Year to you all. I hope they’re £0. 9. Michael Gove you have had a great time over the recent festive period. 10. Alex Horne Legal cover is a bargain too – if you’re already 11. Maurice Gibb paying legal expenses cover (£10.50) for one car If you are like me, you will already be planning your 12. Amanda Holden with RH, you can add as many vehicles as you activities for 2020 and there are some adverts in like to your multi-vehicle policy, with no additional this issue with discount codes that you can use to 13. Audrey Hepburn legal expenses cover payable. The cover will apply gain reductions in ticket entries. Please make use 14 Mel Giedroyc to all vehicles, with no limit on the total number of of them. 15 Mike Gatting vehicles, or the mix of moderns to classics. In Mike Marczynski, proprietor of our regular 16. Alfred Edward Houseman addition, every vehicle you add to the policy 17. Matt Groening will earn its own multi-vehicle discount. advertising business, ‘Frogeye Spares’, sent me this photo in. I would love to hear from you with a funny 18. Sir Michael Gambon CBE There’s even more good news, as UK and European caption. Send them in to me and I’ll publish the 19. Anjelica Houston breakdown recovery is standard with the RH package – for classic and modern vehicles. best next month. 20. Marvin Gaye 21. Anne Hathaway 22. Maggie Gyllenhaal
Keep sending your material into me folks. Must be some rebuilds and maintenance jobs going on at this time of year. Also, the club has lots of female members and I would love to feature any articles from you. I’ve heard tell that sometimes there’s *You’ll need to meet RH’s standard underwriting criteria and be claim-free in the last 12 months. Your current premium will need to match or exceed RH’s minimum premium (£240), which is a race to get to MASCOT first when it arrives, so periodically subject to change. As long as the cover is ‘like for like’ – that is, directly comparable**, come on, send me your articles. it’s all good! Even if your renewal date is the best part of a year away, RH would be delighted to chat to you now about tailoring some top-notch, cost-effective cover.*** Until next month, have a good one, Neil **RH reserves the right to request sight of your renewal notice for validation purposes. ***A change in your circumstances could impact any quotes previously provided.
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1 EVENTS CALENDAR 2020 9th February MG & Triumph Spares Day. 27-29th March Practical Classics Car & Restoration Show, 2020. 16-19th April Healey Museum Visit (Vreeland, Netherlands). Details Alan Anstead Kent Rep. 26th April “Drive it Day” - Destinations yet to be decided by local groups. 9-10th May Classic and Vintage Vehicle Steam event at Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire. Free entry for pre-1985 vehicles. For pre-booking form please contact Ian Cooke [email protected] 30-31st May Wollaton Park ‘Autokarna’ and Motor Show. Nottingham NG8 2AE MASC paddock area for all pre-booked cars. £5 per car. A call to all neighbouring MASC groups to join the Notts + Derby area for our biggest event of the year! Contact: Ian Cooke [email protected] 15-24th Sept Richard Lionheart Tour (Roussines - France) visiting places related to King Richard 1 plus much more. Details Alan Anstead Kent Rep.
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SC20 CCAdvert A4 V3.indd 1 23/10/2019 11:38 NOVEMBER > DECEMBER 2019 We extend a warm welcome to the NEW MEMBERS following new and rejoined members My uncle bought the GAN1 Midget in 1972 and I’ve owned this had owned it until he passed away at the start of Frogeye for about 2019. I bought the car from his widow and have 7 months now and slowly been working through the main components enjoyed using it with a view to getting it back on the road in spring over the summer 2020. Despite how it looks in the photo, it’s in a (much to my wife’s bit of a mess and has endured lots of ‘interesting displeasure). I have decisions’ over the years with ill-fitting parts, wrong to say both my 6 fasteners, you name it... Having applied for the year old daughter heritage certificate, I’ve discovered that the car was and 2 year old son originally Old English White, so my long-term plan is love the car (he is to have some of the more urgent bodywork repaired in the photo). I’ve and then have it resprayed back to its original always grown up colour. It also came with an Ashley GT hardtop and around a frogeye as my dad got me the first car the Donald Healey (Sebring Sprite) wire wheel and back in the early eighties (in Sri Lanka). My dad had front brake discs conversion, all of which I look one in the mid 70’s but had to part with it before forward to restoring. Watch this space! I was born and he always regretted selling it off. Richard Potts - 5992 The first chance he found another he bought it and kept it aside thinking that I would like it someday. I am so glad he did as I had to chance to grow up and experience all the ups and downs of owning a classic. We even managed to buy a second Frogeye to add to the collection in Sri Lanka but I had to part with that when I bought my car here in the UK. I am looking forward to get the kids involved and let them experience a bit of what I had growing up. Hope to get involved with the club and activities and meet with other owners. We have had ‘Daffy’ for about 9-years and apart Thanks, Malith from fitting a roll-bar it has just been routine servicing. We are looking forward to getting Hello all, having joined at the NEC, here’s my involved with the Club and its events. Midget. I own the other cars in the pic too, but no Cheers longer own the petrol pumps. Greg 5952 David 5961
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7 GRAHAM BISH Membership No. 1367 Hi all. I was pleased to re-join the club at the NEC after being away for twenty-two years! It was good also to be able to keep my old membership number. Although I didn’t sell my Sprite lots has happened in-between. Nothing serious, just life, marriage, kids, houses and a very long-winded restoration. In 1993 I decided to buy my first classic and it had to be a Sprite or a Midget. I had always wanted a Frogeye, but I knew my finances would not stretch to one. After a search I came across a Mk3 Sprite in Liverpool. Originally Riviera Blue, it had been painted Pageant Blue and sat on steel wheels with nice H-Pattern blue trim. Generally, it was in good Car as originally purchased in 1993 condition and drove quite well. Over the next year or so I changed it to wire wheels and fully overhauled the suspension. I drove it regularly and took part in a lot of fun runs and tours. I even used it to woo my wife Marion. My desire for a Frogeye had never gone away. After reading about Archers Garage making great fibreglass panels, I hatched a plan to create a replica. I purchased an accident damaged Mk2 Sprite as a base and in 1994 visited Brian Archer to collect the back end I had ordered. What a morning! He was restoring the famous Sebring Sprite, S221 Car with wire wheels fitted and I was spellbound with the cars he was working on. Wheeler and Davies supplied all the other panels and I picked up a good second-hand fibreglass bonnet. Unfortunately, the Mk2 was found to be very bent and extremely rotten. A dilemma ensued, but the answer was closer than I thought. After a few more years my Mk3 had showed some signs of rot in the boot floor and the inner sills were thin. After further investigation it needed more work than I thought. Decision made; it was going to be my Frogeye. The Donor Mk2 Mk2 served its purpose at supplying the dashboard and doors to ensure it looked like a proper Mk1 not just a Mk3 with a Frogeye front and back grafted on. It had to look right! I was now on a countdown to my wedding day, so every Saturday was spent at my friend’s garage. I dismantled it to a bare shell leaving the engine in situ. All bolt on panels where removed followed by countless spot-welds to release the other panels that were to be changed. Soon the body was fully
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8 Hidden rot found Begin fitting new panels Back end bonded on exposed and ready for the new panels. Unlike other Frogeye conversions, I used the re-skinned Mk2 doors and correct panels to give it an authentic Mk1 look. When the back end was bonded on, I could see my dream coming together. Finally, after too many Saturdays and hard work it was ready to paint. Jaguar Ice Blue Pearlescent was chosen as a nod to the Sebring works cars. The body was now finished, and I parked it in my mother’s garage. I got married and there it stayed untouched for the next twelve years. Re-wire With two boys I decided to buy another classic they could sit in. I’d always liked the Austin A40 Farina. So, if it was good enough for John Sprinzel and Pat Moss, then it would do me. That got restored as well and then I moved to Harrogate with my job. The Sprite was never far from my thoughts and I really wanted to finally finish it off. It was still parked in my mother’s garage back in Liverpool so any rebuild would have to be over a weekend or during time off. I started to take stock of the parts I’d taken off and refurbish or replace them. With the help of my friend Peter Green the mechanicals came back together. Peter used to race and mechanic on Slow rebuild Modsports Midgets in the 70’s & 80’s so his skills were invaluable. Over the next few years it came together but re-assembly was time consuming and required lots of fettling. Now MOT’d, I can look forward to enjoying the car but there are still some jobs to do! The hood and fittings need to be fitted and the correct folding seats need to be re-built. Oh, the 1275 I got with Mk2 is halfway through its rebuild. Does it ever stop? Getting new MOT
Painted body
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9 BY MIKE DIXON FROM SCENIC TOURS TO REGULARITY RALLIES
It all started with a gentle scenic tour. Three years For Scenic tours, you need a reasonably accurate later we have just completed a rally with 6 timed trip meter. However good your trip meter is though, regularities and 8 special tests - how did that it will ‘drift’ from the organiser’s mileage in the happen? road book, which can be an issue. We soon found Scenic tours will be familiar to a lot of MASC that a smart phone app which shows both total and members, we certainly meet a few on them. On interval distance that can be independently re-set our first scenic run, duly given our first Tulip book, helped, and we have used it for subsequent tours. there was mild panic but after a few miles all began No special insurance is required for these scenic to make sense and we actually started to enjoy it, runs and they are very relaxed social events, ending helped by coffee stops and lunch. There is no time up parked in places you would not normally get your pressure so if one of the stops is at a place you like car into. you can take a little more time there to explore it After a few more tours and fewer wrong turns it if you wish. Liz, the team navigator is now a great was time for an extra challenge, so we entered the fan of Tulips and really enjoys using them. We Bath Motor Club 12 Car Jogularity, which we found will certainly be keeping a few scenic tours in our out about from our local Wiltshire MASC meeting. annual ‘must do’ list. This seemed the ideal next step for us as the
Leaving Montacute House on the Bath MC Aquae Sulis Tour. Photo by Andrew Manston, M&H Photography.
10 The 12 Car Jogularity is certainly a step up from scenic tours and the timing challenge, all under 30 FROM SCENIC TOURS mph, some 18 mph, kept us focussed to the degree we missed 2 code boards. These are numbers placed by the organisers on the route you have to note down. Not seeing them incurs, as we later TO REGULARITY RALLIES discovered, quite high penalties. Lesson learned! It is worth noting that as these are timed events and competitive you may need extra insurance; it is included in some policies but if not it can usually be bought from the organisers for about £17 for the event. Bath Motor Club - Jogularity Route Book example. This 12 car rally proved to be good fun so we decided to do the HERO Challenge 2 along with Jogularity navigation is by Tulips so the road book is the training workshops HERO offered the day the same as tours apart from the addition of timing before. We thought these would be of benefit as columns and one showing the average speed you we had discovered we did not really understand the are aiming for. nuances of the timing and not all of the navigation would be by tulips. This pre event training course The initial idea of Jogularity was that it could be lasted most of the day and was really worthwhile, done with a standard trip meter but to be honest being run by two of the leading competitors. We I think you need a specialist rally trip meter such picked up hints and tips and began to better as the Brantz we have fitted. It shows just total understand how the timing worked – if we could and intermediate distance and as far as I can work it out on the road would be another matter! see is accepted on all UK organised regularity rallies, unlike the phone apps. The Brantz can be This rally required a little more car preparation but calibrated to the organiser’s trip meter by way of in reality, it just needed to be roadworthy with all a measured distance before the rally, adjusted if heavy spares and equipment including the spare required during the rally and works to a 100th of a fuel can securely fastened down – the regs for the mile – as we will show later this is not a ‘luxury’ you event were available months in advance and the can be without! organisers were very helpful in interpreting them for newcomers. If you have modified your car it is We also fitted a simple stopwatch/clock to the worth a chat with the rally organisers beforehand dash where we can both see it as well as getting a to see if they are acceptable. Some additional second handheld stopwatch. equipment needs to be carried including a foam fire extinguisher, spill kit, ground sheet and OK/SOS boards all of which are checked at scrutineering. A sound check is also part of scrutineering but we were well under the maximum allowed. Scrutineering safely behind us on Friday evening, we did the 5 mile measured distance, going round a second time to give us confidence the Brantz was set up correctly. Saturday saw the rally starting with 4 special tests around Bicester Heritage. These involve a short course, as fast as you can around lettered cones on a mixture of tarmac and gravel. These tests were new to us and to be honest a bit daunting, but great fun – more please! It also required the navigator and driver to agree how to describe the route required, including some 360 and even 540 degree turns. We did not disgrace ourselves but there is definitely room for improvement, mainly from the driver. The rest of the day was 6 regularities interspersed with 4 more Brantz and Clock/Stopwatch. special tests, link sections and of course coffee and
11 My head hurts! Last check of the map before the start of HERO Challenge 2
lunch. Late arrival at these may mean you do not follow someone who looks like they know what they have much time for refreshments though. are doing - who should go past but aforesaid tutor! Liz had said we were not going to take any real We got back to the finish at our expected time but notice of the timing as the ‘top tip’ from the course with a ‘few’ penalty points as we had missed a time was get round on the right route and you will be in check point. the top half of the results table. But before long she It was certainly a really well organised, highly was calling out the expected times every 0.2 mile enjoyable day that we both got a real buzz out of, so or so and I was under no doubt how much faster or much so we redid the last regularity route again the slower I should be going! The Brantz came into its next day to see where we had gone wrong – how own; shortly after a turn onto a busy road we had did we miss that turn…..? to turn left but there were 2 turns, 0.02 of a mile Safely back home we seem to have got the bug. apart. We believed the Brantz and got the right one We are booked on a table top rally to look at more - not the obvious road but a track into a layby and navigation techniques and a local night time 12 there was a time control. car rally. We are now looking for similar events for As the day progressed, our actual times at check next year and have already booked on a multi-day points were getting steadily closer to that expected regularity rally with special tests. I think as a of us and we even got one zero time error. Then ‘journey’ from scenic tours to regularities we have came the first wrong turn and it was a good one, we got it about right, in terms of pushing the comfort were lost! At this point we remembered the advice zone but still enjoying what we are doing. from the course the day before; if all else fails,
12 BY PHILIP MAYNE CAN A CAR RADIO BE INSTALLED WITHOUT A VISIBLE AERIAL? The MG Midget / AH Sprite was sold with a car radio (item 4) is fitted to the body with 2x 1/4unf bolts fitted as an optional extra, which often resulted in each side (item 6) and the boot striker plate pin dealers cutting a hole in the front wing or rear wing (item 19) can be modified so that it is also isolated. to fit a telescopic aerial. This can spoil the classic To achieve electrical isolation, I used M6 Nylon elegant body lines of the car in many people’s view. isolation top-hat bushes and nylon M8 washers, Many different types of aerial are now available purchased from Ebay. These are a free fit on the which take up less space and are arguably less standard UNF boot fixing bolts. intrusive, which is good news. A car aerial is also a The standard hinge does need to be modified by potential target for vandals and an advert to the fact re-drilling the hinge bolt hole to accept a nylon “top that a radio has been fitted. hat” bush. But what if you didn’t need to fit an external aerial The top hat will also need to be cut down in height at all? Impossible I hear you say, as a car radio must so that it falls just short of fully protruding through a have an aerial to receive a signal. This is true, but nylon washer whilst straddling the boot hinge. what if you used a vehicle body panel as the aerial? This assembly electrically isolates the hinge plate & Whilst talking to other classic car owners of various hence the boot lid. marques at a Classic Car meeting, I discovered that this is exactly what Mitsubishi did on their Soporo model. The Japanese probably integrated the idea from another manufacturer, but never mind, this installation was demonstrated to me at the show and the tailgate did work quite satisfactorily as an aerial with AM/FM radio. I left the meeting and wondered if this would work on an MG Midget using the boot-lid. Well guess what, I can report that it does work using the boot- lid with a modern radio. How is this achieved This entailed electrically isolating the boot-lid from the rest of the car and then connecting the boot-lid to the centre core of the coaxial aerial lead. This was surprisingly easy to do as the boot-lid hinge
13 The lock assembly also needs to be isolated, otherwise the boot lid becomes grounded to the vehicle body when the boot is locked!! The striker plate was removed from the car, examination revealed that the striker assembly is a machined pin riveted to a steel pressing. The rivet head was drilled out and the latch pin drilled and tapped to accept an M6 bolt. The pin was then given the nylon “top hat” & “washer” isolation treatment. fold the core wire over the inner insulator & feed all of this into the crimp terminal. Electrical connection – coaxial cable The Co-Ax shield braid was also crimped into a ring to the boot lid aerial & radio terminal and connected to the car body. The aerial coax cable needs to be stripped back and Radio Performance connected to the boot lid The results are an MG Midget / Austin Healey Sprite This was achieved using a crimp eye terminal fitted with an AM FM radio, which picks up all the main inside the “nylon isolation bush” assembly so that it national & local stations with moderate to strong connects to the boot hinge & hence the boot lid. signal strength, without a visible external aerial. The co-axial cable core is very fragile, so through I have not tried this “aerial free installation” with experimentation I found that the easiest method of a DAB radio, but in principle I can’t see why this achieving a mechanically strong connection was to wouldn’t work on these too. Robin Lawton Quality Sprites Vintage & Classic Car Specialists and Midgets Always Wanted Especially Frogeye and Pre-74 cars
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14 BY KEN BROOKS AN ALTERNATIVE DAYLIGHT RUNNING LIGHTS CIRCUIT FOR THE MIDGET
I noticed November’s piece by John Davies about These devices conduct electricity in one direction Daylight Running Lights (DRL’s) on the Midget and only but block the flow in the opposite direction. how he had modified the wiring to provide this One side of D1 and D2 are connected together functionality. My own car, bought in 1981, is more and also to the two front sidelights which are now or less original and has not been subject to many separated from the car’s wiring loom. The other end improvements or modifications. Consequently I of D1 is connected via the sidelights switch. This don’t usually take more than a passing interest in allows both sidelights to operate as before from modification articles, but was intrigued by this one. the switch because D1 is wired in its conducting To make DRL’s work, a circuit is needed to direction. Notice that D2 is also wired in its illuminate the front sidelights when the ignition is conducting direction and the opposite end is wired on, and also to illuminate the front sidelights and to be live when the ignition is switched on. This now rear sidelights when the dashboard light switch is operates the sidelights with the sidelights switch turned on. Put another way, the sidelights need to off, and gives us daylight running lights. operate from two sources of power, one from the Could we not have just wired the sidelights to the ignition and one from the lighting circuit. But we ignition circuit to save all this bother with diodes? also need to stop power running in the opposite The answer is no, because if we did: (1) the rear direction and operating rear and number plate lights and number plate lights would also illuminate by day, and activating the ignition circuit when which is unnecessary and wasteful. (2) The ignition sidelights are used when parked. John’s method uses a relay to switch on the front sidelights but it occurred to me that there might be another less complex method. I also thought there could be a way of wiring that avoided working behind the dashboard, one of the most difficult parts of the car to access that risks a twisted back! I dropped John a note suggesting that the same effect could be achieved without moving parts by using a couple of semiconductor diodes. In reply he asked for a circuit which was sketched out with a description. At the time my reply was only to suggest an alternative method with no intention of actually testing it, but John was very enthusiastic (and persuasive!) about the idea and asked if I would like to test it in practice. Whilst daydreaming about the virtues of modifying my car, thoughts turned to possible justification for doing this work. It has to be recognised that the front profile of a Midget is very small, especially with the roof down where the solid evidence of its presence from a head on perspective is principally the grille and bonnet. It’s lack of conspicuity has often concerned me and that’s why I’ve recently taken to wearing a bright red cap! Let’s now take a look at this alternative circuit. It relies on two semiconductor diodes, D1 and D2. circuit would be on whenever the sidelights were with the commonly seen red and blue crimp switched on, for example, when parking. The non connectors. conducting properties of D1 prevent (1), whilst the • Bullet snap connector for joining cables. non conducting properties of D2 prevent (2). This circuit is for negative earth cars. If the circuit were • Blade connectors, male, female and piggyback used on positive earth cars the diode connections plus insulating boots. will need to be reversed. The diodes do introduce • In-line fuse holder and 5 Amp fuse. a small voltage drop due to the characteristics of semiconductor devices but at around 0.6 Volts it is • About 2.5 metres of cable. This must have insignificant in this application. For greater energy good insulation to resist any chafing. I used efficiency light emitting diodes could be used in 2mm cable known as 28/030. place of the existing filament sidelights. This hardware was sourced from Vehicle Wiring Making even minor changes to the original wiring Products. can introduce risk if not properly designed or A Bridge Rectifier. This contains four diodes and carried out carefully, and I have therefore included was used in preference to discrete diodes because a 5 Amp fuse to protect the circuit. In the event of it has blade connections and is already packaged. a catastrophic fault, like a connector coming apart Mine is supremely over engineered having a rating and shorting to the chassis, or the bridge rectifier of 700 Volts at 50 Amps. It was sourced from failing short circuit, the fuse will blow and the Reichelt Elektronik in Germany whilst buying other ignition circuit will continue to function. semiconductors but will be available locally from This implementation is easily installed, does not electronic component suppliers. require any permanent changes to the wiring, and is I have already mentioned an aversion to working easily reversed. Much of the wiring can be prepared behind the dashboard and will now offer an off the car. I used the following parts: alternative wiring method. With the grille removed, • Bullet male solder or crimp connectors, 4.7 locate the pair of wires going to each indicator and mm. These are not the same as, or compatible sidelight. Pull out the two bullet connections for the sidelights. On my car these are both red cables. One
16 of the two female snap connectors now vacated to use. There will remain one unused terminal on will be used later to pick up the switched sidelights the rectifier because we are only using two of the supply via D1, the other will be left unused. Make four diodes within. I secured the bridge rectifier to up two new wires with a male bullet connector at the central support behind the grille with a cable one end and a female blade connector at the far tie to avoid drilling any extra holes. For an invisible end. Make another but with a piggyback blade installation, this could all be installed behind the connector on the far end. Make up a further longer dashboard with slightly different wiring but still cable with an in line fuse holder to reach between applying the diode principle. the coil and front grille. This is terminated with a It’s now time to test. Ensure there are no exposed female blade. All the blade connectors should be terminals. I noticed that the snap connectors could insulated with an insulating boot. leave some conductor showing and protected them Connect the first two cables to the sidelights using with tape. Heat shrink sleeving would be better. a new snap connector. Connect both together using Now, with the ignition off, operate the sidelights the piggyback and the connect to the + terminal switch when the sidelights, tail light and number of the rectifier. Connect one of the rectifier AC plate lights should illuminate as before. Switch off, terminals, which may be marked with a “~” to one operate the ignition and you should now see the of the now vacant loom sidelight snap connectors. sidelights illuminate. That’s all there is to it! Connect the other AC or “~” terminal to the white Ken Brooks (Member 193) wire on the coil where there is unused blade [email protected] connector on the + terminal. This is connected via the new fuse holder. I would have preferred to pick Acknowledgement up the live supply nearer to the scuttle and away The author thanks MASC member John E. Davies from the ignition circuit but the coil connection is for his encouragement and suggestions, and for conveniently close and there is a spare terminal drawing the circuit diagram appearing in this article.
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17 BY JOHN E. DAVIES EARLY DYNAMO PULLEYS Within limits, the diameter of the pulley fitted 4. For a frightening cost (just check the to any Lucas C39 or C40 dynamo can vary catalogues), most major suppliers sell a without any loss of performance. If the pulley’s dynamo pulley which they swear is correct diameter is smaller than that fitted by the vehicle’s for our early cars. But so far as I can tell, not manufacturer, the dynamo will spin faster - but the one of these pulleys has a diameter of 92mm: voltage regulator will ensure that the output voltage most of them are smaller Morris Minor pulleys, remains constant by reducing the current flowing freely available for a much less frightening in the two field coils. If the pulley diameter is too price from Morris Minor specialists. Caveat large then the dynamo’s output will be too low and Emptor! the cut-out contacts will never cut-in – but this is a 5. After very long use, the two 1/8” slots (or hypothetical situation, never achieved in practice. ‘keyways’) – one straight in the pulley’s centre Racers with flame-proof underpants sometimes section and one semi-circular in the shaft fit a large diameter ‘competition pulley’ to their of the dynamo - can become so worn and dynamos, believing that if their dynamo spins more enlarged that the 1/8” woodruff key (which slowly, less power will be drawn from their engine. secures the pulley to the shaft of the dynamo) But this is a mistaken belief: the mechanical power begins to wobble. This situation can rapidly a dynamo draws from the engine depends in turn destroy both keyways and leave the pulley upon the electrical power it is delivering to the disconnected, useless, flapping about. vehicle. Any money spent on fancy competition dynamo pulleys would (I think) be better spent on new underpants. Summing up, the diameter of a dynamo’s pulley isn’t usually very critical. One important exception is the pulley fitted to the dynamos of all early Sprites and Midgets1 with mechanical tachometers driven via a little gearbox at the back of their dynamo. As Nigel Baston has reminded us recently2, for correct tachometer readings this pulley diameter must be 92mm rim- to-rim. Sadly, for the following reasons, many early cars now have a pulley with the wrong diameter .. 1. The 92mm pulleys are rare because they were never fitted to many different types of vehicle. 2. In the good old days, the need to retain a 92mm pulley for our special ‘tacho’ dynamos was never understood in most dynamo reconditioning shops. Today, after multiple passes through these shops, many surviving The worn/enlarged keyway (A) in this pulley is not ‘tacho’ dynamos have a pulley with a random fit for purpose. Unless a new keyway (B) is cut, the diameter. pulley is scrap. Note that the square section of the pulley allows it to be held firmly in a vice while the 3. Many pulleys have been destroyed during new keyway is cut (see text, later) attempts to remove them without something like the excellent pulley extractor invented by At first sight, a pulley with a worn/damaged keyway Paul Hodkinson and described by our Nigel2. can appear to be scrap – but in fact it can be rescued easily simply by cutting a new keyway with the help of a nifty tool called a ‘push type keyway broach’ whose shape is similar to a saw, except the height of the teeth increases over the length of the 1 These cars are the AN5 and HAN6 Sprites and the tool. It is held in place with a special ‘guide bush’ GAN1 Midgets. and the depth of the keyway is controlled by a set of simple “L” shaped shims. 2 See MASCOT Dec 2019, page 17
18 The keyway broach is effectively a collection of tapered single point cutting tools arrayed in sequence, cutting one after the other. The diameter of the guide bush is the diameter of the dynamo’s armature shaft. The shims control the depth of the keyway. Rather than attempting to describe in detail how to The broach really should be pushed through the use this tool, I recommend watching a 4.38 minute pulley with an arbor press. If a suitable press is movie entitled ‘Broaching – Cutting a Keyway’ on not available, the alloy metal of our pulley’s central YouTube3. section is so soft that, if the pulley is clamped firmly in a vice, the broach can be tapped gently through the pulley with a wooden hammer, remembering (a) to lubricate the work with a little paraffin and (b) to hold a hand beneath the broach to catch it as it falls through. This whole operation takes less time than it does to read these words and the result is a pulley good for another 60+ years of life, providing it is NOT immediately mated with its original armature. How to rescue this valuable armature with its damaged semi-circular keyway will be covered in a future article. I thank my engineer friend Howard Hodson (member of the Veteran Car Club) who introduced me to keyway broaches and who, in the twinkling of an eye, made the special guide bush for Lucas Here the pulley is held firmly in a vice, ready for the dynamos on his lathe. Without his help I would still keyway broach to be tapped gently through with a have absolutely no idea how to cut a keyway and wooden hammer. would probably have thrown away four perfectly good 92mm pulleys. I wouldn’t know how to make a crankshaft for a 1912 Buick either, but that’s 3 https://www.youtube.com another story. watch?v=ZRbOux9NfeU John E. Davies (Member 3443) [email protected]
19 AREA REPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Hall instead, home of the Tollemache family for centuries. It is set in a superbly landscaped park. The Festival of Classic & Sports Cars is organised in conjunction with the Suffolk Vehicle Enthusiasts Club. There is adequate parking and cars can parade up and down the main drive. Entry fee is c £8/ car on the day (although I have provisionally booked space for our club visit) The address is: Helmingham Hall, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 6EF The Hall is approx 45 miles from Cambridge using the Eastbound A14 then north on A140 signposted to Norwich and in approx 2miles turn right at Earl Stonham onto A1120 and in 1.5 miles ‘you have arrived at your destination’ It may be better to use CAMBRIDGESHIRE Firstly a very merry Christmas the pretty route TBA. Nigel and Diane have enjoyed and good health for 2020 to all Mascoteers. this event in previous years and highly recommend By the very seasonal state of the weather, social it as a ‘to do’ event. events take over from those of motoring, all is not Happy motoring and socialising lost as the social side of any club is an important factor for its continuance. Graham/Maggie So, we have had our ten pin bowls match where Mick showed his superior skill (luck) in attaining the highest score of us all. Diane who organised the event, was best in the girls section at the same time beating hubby Nigel. Another unpopular result was myself beating Maggie, even after she had contributed to further dents in the already somewhat irregular bowls surface, by skying a few deliveries. However, I think all was forgiven with the meal after at the bowls complex, it was also pleasing that Peter and Holly could join us after a bit of an absence. I surprised Mick with a spot check on the progress of his ‘Dolomite’ engined Midget – he is almost there after an engine/clutch rebuild, and was contemplating refitting either the existing exhaust system or a very smart unused ‘enamelled looking’ one currently fitted to the rafters of his garage. As the photo’ shows, Mick is contemplating filling his shirt sleeve with oil, as you do, whilst fitting a new oil filter. I recently referred to the Higham Ferrers event on Sunday August 2nd, but at our recent club meeting it was agreed to visit the moated Helmingham
20 AREA REPORT CENTRAL I start my monthly report with the very sad news of Members had arrived early and the room was soon the passing away of member David Clarkson. filled with loud chatter and the clinking of glasses. I first met Dave when he arrived at a local event Luckily I had brought along a list of what people sitting in the passenger seat alongside Andy Bird. It had ordered to eat which was just as well as most, was not long after that Dave got the classic car bug me included, had forgotten what we had chosen a himself, bought a Frogeye and joined the club. Andy month earlier. had met Dave when they sat next to each other at Three courses later and the room was brought to school and had remained firm friends ever since. a hush before a round of applause filled the room On trips to Holland and France we all appreciated showing our appreciation for Jenni who had served Dave’s dry sense of humour. Always the one to us well all evening. make light of a situation but someone whom you The table full of raffle prizes now awaited and Jenni could rely on whenever help was needed. Dave like was given the task of drawing the first raffle ticket. me enjoyed history and he encouraged us to visit To my embarrassment my wife Bernie stood up and the Arnhem Bridge in Holland and the WW2 beach waved her raffle ticket in the air to loud shouts of landing sights in Normandy. We didn’t need a tour Fix! She had the first choice from the prize table guide as Dave was so knowledgeable he told us all and red faced, sat back down and drew the next we needed to know. Our sincere condolences go to ticket. One by one winning members raised their his wife Debbie and family. He will be sadly missed hands and collected the remaining prizes and the by all who knew him. table was empty for another year. If someone drew Our Christmas Party was held at the Tame Otter a second ticket then they drew another so as many again this year. For the past three years we have people as possible could join in the fun. The raffle held a raffle in aid of the local Air Ambulance prize total was counted and we had raised £85 charity. I noticed fellow diners taking a second for the charity, a fantastic achievement. I have to glance as members arrived with their raffle take my hat off to everyone that was so generous contribution of various bottles of alcohol, calendars, donating raffle prizes. I feel humbled, honoured and cake and Midget and Sprite technical books. What proud that I was amongst such caring and generous had started as a little bit of fun a couple of years people. Thank you. earlier had now become a big part of the evening.
Above Dave Clarkson pictured on a trip to France. Left Central members enjoying the Christmas meal. 21 AREA REPORT DEVON
Silly hats, Christmas sweaters, some old, some new, were all on display at the annual Christmas meal held at the Court Farm Inn at Abbotskerswell. Unfortunately, due to illness two people could not attend but that did not stop 15 of us tucking in to another good Christmas Feast, all the plates were emptied! Secret Santa›s two boxes were well stacked with a wide assortment of parcels which were distributed after all the food had gone. A wide variety of gifts appeared including a few more saucy gifts A good evening was enjoyed by all and everyone headed home ready for their Christmas. Write up by David Clarkson as Chris is unwell
22 AREA REPORT JOHN’S JOTTINGS - DORSET
With the arrival of darker nights it was pleasing to similar tools in the kitchen leaving them lying see so many members at the November Quiz night. around for days, if not weeks … I’m sure that part of the attraction was that the After the Chairman’s word was ruled as final the night’s entertainment took the form of an unusual winners were Colin Archer and partner Shelagh quiz. Hunt who generously turned over their spoils of Organised, if that’s the word, by Peter Vallins, the a bottle of bubbly towards the evening’s raffle. A challenge facing members was to identify objects very entertaining evening for all and special thanks hidden and sealed in plastic bags. Now you might have to go to Peter for organising the quiz – he has think that it would be easy to do. But Peter had threatened to do another one next year. selected obscure tools, car parts and other items to With members due, at the time of writing, to enjoy confuse the uninitiated. their traditional festive dinner at the Charlton A few people identified correctly a hair drier, whilst Arms in mid-December, our January club night is the majority thought it was a timing light! And yet another quiz, this time more conventional and when did you last see a special tool to lift a battery organised by Ian Beaver. terminal connection? Other tools keeping people As you read this the Festive season and New Year guessing included a compression gauge, a chain celebrations will be distant memories. But I wish link pin remover, a piston ring expansion tool and a Dorset Spridgeteers and all owners elsewhere piston ring compression tool. happy and healthy 2020 and no mechanical There were some complaints by the ladies in the breakdowns to mar their motoring pleasure in the room that they could not possibly recognise these New Year. And the evenings are getting lighter! things but I’m confident that we have all used John Gully, Dorset Area Representative Dates for your diary
23 AREA REPORT ESSEX
All had failed with the lights And the gauge for fu….uu….el
Bring me Tea and bring me wire, Get my cable strippers Where is my rectifier, And my little nippers Paul, at once, he had to go, To the motor factors He tried his luck at Ernest Doe The place that sells the tra….ac….ctors
Sir that bit is not in stock, I’ve looked everywhere We were caught, in deadlock, The 1st December saw a motley And Paul began to swear collection of Elves, Santa’s and Hang on, hang on, wait a bit, a nominal Gingerbread person His thoughts began to broaden meeting at Beth Chatto’s Garden Elmsted Market for this year’s Needing a complete tool kit, Santa Run. He went to speak to Go….r….don Organised by Paul & Helen, Christmas Revelry Anon 2019 6 cars festively decorated with flashing lights and Christmas presents set off on a 35 mile run Tony amused with his Christmas jokes including through the Essex countryside. ‘what do frogs wear on their feet?’….’Open Toad Covering lovely roads in cold, but Sandals’. Don’t give up your day job Tony. mainly dry weather was a great The eagerly anticipated annual awards were also way to end a season of fantastic presented. The ‘Breakdown Trophy’ passing from club runs. On route Gill, Francis’s Owen after two consecutive years to Anne & Dave co-driver took every opportunity to throw snow balls who unfortunately have missed most of the season at people we passed on route, much to everyone’s due to mechanical problems. A new category the amusement particularly the Children. ‘Detour Trophy’ was presented to Colin & Elaine, A few days later 26 of us celebrated the Club’s whose runs always seem to feature this element Christmas dinner at The Six Bells Boreham. An of British motoring. The highlight of the evening excellent meal was accompanied by a carol was Francis winning ‘The Spirit of the Club Trophy’, reflecting personal reflections of owning a Spridget for his enthusiasm and continuing effort in always composed by Paul, sung to the music of ‘Good King pushing the boundaries in any themed runs we hold Wenceslas’. and for being an all-round ‘good egg’. Pa…ul Mutton looked out, Our next club meeting will be on Tuesday 4th On the feast of Stephen February as we all have a well-earned rest over the All his tools lay round about, Festive period. Looking forward to some fun and runs in 2020. A Happy & Healthy New Year to you Rusty and uneven all. Problems with the Sprite last night The drive home was cruel Gary
24 AREA REPORT HOME COUNTIES NORTH
A trip to The Red lion pub in Evenley (north of down the road just north of Buckingham. The Buckingham) to a classic car event was organised weather was a pleasant winter’s day with some by Keith Warner. The event was a Hagerty sunshine, but it was cold, even so we wrapped Insurance classic car event and being it was the up well and had our tops down on the Frogeyes 1st December it had a Christmas feel to the trip. and Midgets. Well done Keith, the trip was a Attending was Keith and Ann Warner in their success and it was a good journey ending at a very Midget, Mike and Lorna Pope as well as Bill Harding interesting pub with plenty of nostalgia with classic in their Frogeyes, Simon & Jill in their MGA and war time memorabilia and housing a small museum. Bob in his Caterham 7 car. Matthew in his Midget Bill Harding joined the convoy en route. The rendezvous was too locations on off the A41 and Matthew joined us Home Counties North West en route north of Aylesbury. Unfortunately, Bob’s Caterham 7 developed a clutch problem and quite rightly decided not to chance any further northward journey and hopped out to return home. Bob later sent a text to confirm that he got home safely by using a bit of adaptive driving. We arrived at the Red Lion pub on the Green at Evenley well before midday, and just had room to park our cars in their medium sized car park to the rear, but scattered around where the spaces were located. There was classic cars parked to the rear, side and the front of the pub, in all there were approximately 30 or so that attended, including a few vintage cars and Midgets. We went inside the pub and enjoyed a coffee and a mince pie courtesy of Hagerty Insurance; there were interesting car owners to engage in conversation as well as the exhibition of their classic cars. It was a special day for the pub and it was over crowded at times, so the tables for food was mostly reserved, so we decided to have our lunch at a large garden centre cafe located
25 AREA REPORT KENT
Kicked the month off with a small turning job for Notts & Derby Rep Ian Cooke. Three extended knurled knobs for speedometer odometer setting mechanisms. The material: stainless steel had a previous life being handles from, Kent Masc member, Dave Chalk’s old kitchen units.
in Distress’. The Lady’s Spridget would not start! By my instruction throughout the evening, over a period of a couple of hours, she would perform tests and ring me back until we established that the sole problem was closed contact breaker points. She knew not of ‘feelers’ nor their use. However Then on the first Sunday of the month a distress she did know what an old fashioned ivory handled call from Geoff Allgood whose Frogeye had broken table knife was and actually had one! It would, down at the roadside in Eynsford of all places. being straight sided and of sufficient width, suffice Was Geoff trying for a reenactment of the famous as a ‘feeler’. Having tutored her in the adjustment photograph scene, beside the Ford-water and of contact breaker points she hung up in order to Medieval Bridge, of a Frogeye attended by an perform the operation. Her next, and last, call was Automobile association mini-van? Unfortunately this to report a success: with the engine heard running A.A. (my initials) emergency service was not beside in the background. Being of a certain age that shuns a telephone, neither fixed nor portable, to render the political correctness nonsense I suggested that immediate assistance. I was, in fact, but a mile for the future she might find a boyfriend or husband. away taking coffee with John Le Mar as we worked adept at car mechanics. “Oh, I have a husband! He out the outline for a ten day ‘Richard LionheartTour’, is holding the torch”! from 15th - 24th September 2020, visiting Castles As these problems keep on recurring perhaps I may and Chateaux based near Angouleme but not be excused for re-using a technical article that has incorporating the ‘Circuit des Remparts’ motor been published in Mascot twice before and is often race. There will be a requirement for night driving sent to participants of my Continental Tours of past and walking! Places may be limited! For Sprites, times. Midgets, & derivatives only: after all it is the Midget Dry joints and a lack of spark can affect many and Sprite Club! of us, of a certain age, over the winter months but I contacted Geoff about an hour after his message can also affect our Sprites and Midgets at any time was left on my answer-phone: the problem of the year. I have broadcast this information before appeared to be either rotor arm or condenser. Alas but the problems still arise and may not be known Geoff had neither, as a spare part, so awaited a by newer members. tow! I suggested a test that identified the problem Firms such as Aldon Automotive and Distributor as the rotor arm. Geoff was then to call a Masc Doctor are able to provide better quality alternatives member living nearby in the hope of getting a to the commonly available reproduction rotor arms serviceable item brought to him. Alas not! which routinely fail and leave people stranded. Unfortunately the experience still ended with a tow. Electronic ignition can be fitted concealed in the This event brought back a memory some years distributor and replacing the contact breaker and past: a telephone call, one evening, from a ‘Damsel unreliable modern condensers but the rotor arm,
26 depending upon which sort of electronic ignition Part number for alternative 45D type distributors is is used will still remain. My own choice has been DRB104 the Aldon / Pertronix ‘Hall effect’ system that has Distributor Doctor can be found at proven reliable over fifteen years and many miles at www.distributordoctor.com and Aldon Automotive home and abroad. at www.aldonauto.co.uk. Some rotor arms manufactured in recent years Electronic ignition systems are easily fitted to Sprite have been failing because the typical ‘mix’ used in and Midgets and are available for both Positive the injection moulding process now contains more and Negative earth configurations fitting inside carbon blacking than of old and is more conductive a vehicle’s distributor with no outward sign of to electricity. It has been found that the rivet which conversion. It is easy to carry a spare distributor holds the brass contact inlay into the moulding, base plate set up with points and condenser in on reproduction rotors, is slightly longer than the case of the rare, but not unknown, instance of the original bringing it too close to the spring clip on the electronic system failing at the roadside. Why not underside. The High Tension (HT) current, averaging also consider carrying a spare coil? I have used a 30,000 volts, is always looking for the easiest Lucas DLB105 “gold’ coil on both of my Sprites for route to earth and shorts out, from the tip of the years, for they are relatively cheaply purchased at over length rivet, through the reduced thickness of the car shows and can be affixed to a suitable bolt the more conductive plastic and the spring clip on in the engine compartment, there being no need to the underside of the rotor arm to earth out down clutter the boot, and be easily accessible if they are the distributor shaft. This results in no spark at ever needed. the sparking plug and a ‘failure to proceed’ from your Sprite or Midget. The system sometimes rectifies itself on cooling but then repeats itself with increasing frequency until the rotor permanently short circuits. Distributor Doctor offers ‘Lucas red rotor arms’ which are modelled on the original 1960s design but made from modern materials on the latest machinery to very close tolerances and have achieved a good reputation for reliability. The integrally moulded brass inlay dispenses with the troublesome rivet. The increased insulation properties of the body makes them suitable for Alan Anstead. use with high voltage ignition coils and electronic Kent Rep. ignition kits. The spring clip on the underside, www.masckent.org in conjunction with a revised internal tolerance assures a really snug fit upon the distributor Another fine display had been put on, by members, spindle even on old and slightly reduced diameter at the Classic Car Show NEC in November all mountings. organised by Alan Pritchett. This can be no easy task for Alan (his eighth such show) as he has to Even with the uprated rotor arms it is worth being persuade members to display their cars and hope vigilant and occasionally checking the security of that he is not let down at the last minute: seeking the brass contact. sufficient members to perform ‘front of house’ on When fitting a rotor arm consider applying some each long day and sorting a rota so that all have petroleum jelly to the distributor drive shaft rotor some time to see the show. More should volunteer arm seating to eliminate moisture as I have been as I always do. It is an ideal opportunity to make called upon to work on a car where the distributor acquaintances and meet up with friends. Alan also drive seat rusted such that it grew so much in has to liaise with the organisers etc. If that were not size that it cracked the rotor arm that had to be enough he also ensures a constant flow of coffee to chiselled off. I also tend to use petroleum jelly on lubricate the battered vocal cords of those on the most electrical joints to stop them being effected by stand dealing with the myriad of enquiries. Alan is damp and corrosion. handing over the reigns, for next year’s Practical Part number for Sprite / Midget 25D distributors is Classics Show in March, to young member Liam DRB101 Murphy whose ‘Young Members’ Morris Minor stand, deservedly, received an award at the show.
27 Graeme Edwards brought his Frogeye as he apparently struggles with the fitting of new bushes to his Sebring Rep’s rear semi-elliptic springs. Graeme wore his now familiar wooly bobble hat of which I have made mention on many occasions. This reminds me of a recent conversation with Jayne Le Mar about having more magazine content for female members. Perhaps Editor Neil will publish a knitting pattern if Graeme’s wife Barbara can supply one? Ed Note, I would welcome any contributions from our female members. I embrace diversity. Ron and Marilyn Edwards failed to bring their Frogeye as its brake warning light had failed. I Membership Secretary-Stuart Watson was again suggested fitting a Harley-Davidson item as I knew busy at the show, and no doubt after, dealing with that our East Kent co-ordinator, John Clark, had membership enquiries and enrolments. Stuart has fitted one so rang him to get his impressions on the put a lot of time and effort into the Club over the Harley-Davidson brake light switch. years having been on Committee and a leading light John’s Frogeye brake light switch failed after we on arranging some of the major Masc events. Stuart had bled his brakes, following a rear brake cylinder is standing down and deserves many thanks for his failing, in the centre of a French village on route to service. Angouleme, in September 2018. It was not too bad a day, weather wise, on the We replaced the switch with a repro part nearer fourth Sunday of the month, for the November to our destination, at Surrey Rep - Mike Gorman’s meet at the Angel, Addington Green. Holidays and French retreat, before carrying on. family affairs kept many away but we mustered a The reproduction brake light switch soon failed after dedicated nine whom were bolstered by the arrival our trip and on return to England. The improvisation of potential new member Nick Whitley. Nick brought that we carried out on the slave cylinder seal along his grey 948 Frogeye which has a cut down remains good to this day windscreen and a rear hinged fibreglass bonnet. If, hopefully, he joins us perhaps he will write an John then tried Harley Davidson part number article for Mascot about the bonnet.) 72023-51E as fitted to several versions of their motorcycles. John is satisfied with its fit (taper Kim and Steve Smith were no doubt quite snug in thread) and performance so far. their 1500 Midget now that Steve has fitted heated seats. Perhaps the seats have medical advantages and he can sit more comfortably now?
28 As an alternative option Dr John E Davies suggests incorrect thread is found then perhaps ask at your (Mascot Issue 372 of March 2015) Volkswagen Part next meeting if anyone has a lathe as an adaptor is 113-945-515-H easily made. If no-one ‘pipes up’ a local engineering firm should be able to make one for you. Darren Tyre announced the date of the season opening London Bridges Run as Sunday 5th January 2020. Darren has to recce the route and arrange detours as one bridge (Hammersmith ?) across the Thames is currently closed to traffic. Following its breakdown: now with a new red rotor arm, Geoff Allgood’s Frogeye is running but still teething problems, following restoration, persist so it stayed at home. I am led to believe that clutch slave cylinders can now be added to the long list of parts for which there are complaints. It seems that a thread on one of the two ports may now be tapped as metric instead of UNF. So that is one port UNF and the Alan Anstead other metric. Can it be that metric threaded bleed Kent Rep. valves are now more easily obtained for some Contact details at rear of Mascot. applications? If on purchase, and checking, an www.masckent.org
County Estate, “Groot Kantwijk”, Bergseweg 28Q, 3633AK. Vreeland. Netherlands. Sprite memorabilia collection acquired by Healey Museum December 5, 2019 NEWS RELEASE!!!!! The Sprite room of Ray English from Australia displayed in the Healey Museum With pride we wish to inform you that the Foundation Healey Museum has acquired the complete collection of Ray English, and this will be displayed in Vreeland in The Netherlands on short notice. The first negotiations about the acquisition took place in 2017 when Ray was not yet prepared to relinquish of his life’s work. Now, 2 years later, and after consultation of John Sprinzel, Ray has decided that the Healey Museum offers a good place to preserve his collection for the next few decades. It is unnecessary the express how thrilled we are about this acquisition. We are not the only Healey Museum in the world but as far as we know we now do have the largest Sprite memorabilia collection in the world! The personal archive of Geoffrey Healey with lots of Sprite documents from the race history already has been preserved in the Healey Museum for many years. Together with the Sprite room collection they form a unique collection. We expect to open up the collection for visitors as of January. A visit by Sprite enthusiasts therefor will absolute be worth the visit! ** I am already working on a group visit to this museum to see the Ray English collection 16-19th April 2020. Alan Anstead Kent Rep.
29 AREA REPORT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
To celebrate meeting number six, eleven of us arrived a little earlier than usual for a cosy evening meal. As is typical with such gatherings the topics of conversation were many and varied but some questions were left unanswered like: can you have too many lawnmowers; what is the Land Speed Record for a Sprite and should we try and break it; will there be enough pie for all those who want it? Thankfully the pie-eaters were not disappointed and those opting for a different main course were also well satisfied. Back home the engine top end rebuild is Somehow we then got onto the subject of carrying progressing well and the block and pistons have outsized items in a Spridget but Phil Herrick’s two cleaned up well. However, there have been a couple canoes beat everyone else’s efforts. Technical of surprises along the way. Firstly I discovered that subjects also got an airing and a hot topic at my end I have +0.020” pistons so it’s a 1293cc motor – of the table was how to dismantle a gearbox without bonus! I’m sure that the extra 18cc make all the the internals making a bid for freedom when the difference. Secondly, when I collected the cylinder covers are removed. head from Knight Engine Services I was told that We also discussed what we would like to do next the head is from a 1300 GT or later Cooper ‘S’ so year. Some of these events will involve other areas has slightly larger inlet valves; 1.4” as opposed to or clubs whilst others will be home grown efforts. 1.31”. Local car group Silverstone Social Car Club Meet I rebuilt the rocker gear on a new shaft but there had been invited to appear in an upcoming TV show was still a little play in several rocker arms so I have and were asked to supply a selection of pre-1980 purchased a set of forged 1.5 ratio rockers instead. track focused cars for filming. Mark Oxborough Hopefully, it will all be back together in time for next answered the call with his rally replica Sprite, fitted month’s report. with Ashley hard top, and had an enjoyable day despite the unpleasant weather. Look out for a more detailed account in MASCOT after the programme has aired. I’m not expecting to see many members out with their cars over the winter as a majority go into hibernation during that time. Others will use the opportunity to carry out maintenance work and upgrades.
30 AREA REPORT NOTTS & DERBY It seems strange to be writing this now, but Happy New Year to you all! New Zealand Minors 2019 will probably be remembered mainly for its wet weather, putting our Spridget hoods to the test. Nonetheless there were many events for our local members to attend in between showers. Early season trips to indoor venues, Restoration Shows at Stoneleigh and the NEC, provided a good excuse to pick up spares and to meet MASC members from other areas. Ideal for planning the Wollaton Park Autokarna event calendars. I managed to attend all but one of our monthly meetings in 2019, the only one I missed due to being in the Southern hemisphere, on tour in New Zealand, where I managed to spot a few interesting classics. I participated in 14 of 20 events where Notts + Derby members were known to have been present, not to mention the numerous local monthly pub meets to which our group often have a drive on a nice evening. We also extend Work in progress There have been track events, for watching and a welcome actively taking part in – Mallory Park, Curborough to all new Sprint, Silverstone, Cadwell and Donington circuits. members and Car shows in countryside and architecturally would love to historic settings, providing photogenic backdrops. meet you with Our annual Wollaton Park event being the highlight or without your of the Notts + Derby area calendar, where there is Spridgets. always room for more member’s cars in our MASC So whether paddock. (Put Sunday 31st May 2020 in your diary you prefer to wield a spanner, exercise your right now!) foot, or polish your brightwork, there should be Scenic runs around the Peak District, across the something for everyone in the coming year. Vale of Belvoir and along the River Trent, offered Don’t forget “Drive it Day” this year will be on the opportunity for those whose cars were under Sunday April 26th. restoration to join in as navigators or just come along for the ride. (I have heard of some crossing Reports and photographs have been recorded for the Channel to foreign parts where they drive on the posterity in these very pages of Mascot throughout opposite side of the road!) 2019. If they haven’t then why not? Most of us take photos which your Editor is always pleased to Some of you have shared your technical views and receive, or add a few notes towards the monthly experiences along the way. area review. We have even had some of our cars filmed for TV – What ideas do you have for interesting events that keep an eye out for future editions of “Bangers and you would like to take part in? Let your thoughts Cash” on the Yesterday channel. and wishes be known for classic car-related goings 2019 saw two new neighbouring area groups set on in which MASC can play a part. up – Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire – with Ian Cooke whom we look forward to more interaction, as with Notts and Derby area coordinator existing Central, North East and Yorkshire groups. [email protected]
31 AREA REPORT SCOTLAND
Last month saw me achieve along standing might not be able to resist temptation and I note our ambition, the purchase of a Big Healey, in this case latest member has an I O W Frogeye of which I will a 1963 BJ 7 Healey 3000. be wanting to hear more. I saw it advertised for sale in a local auction house, The slabbing of the area in front of the new garage Morris Leslie Auctions and fellow club member is at last under way and that should make a big David Sinclair, who also has owned a Big Healey for difference in car mobility between garages. years and is well versed in them agreed to come with me the day before the auction to view it and I have received a couple of e-mails from members give it a thorough inspection. Apart from a couple concerning last months article in cutting holes for of minor issues, it was sound and in fairly original the gauges in the dash and I will consider which condition and I was successful in the auction the way to take this forward and many thanks for the following day and trailered it home the following advice. week. It has since transpired, with the help of the We have recently gained a couple of new members area rep of the Austin Healey Club it has been in in the Pitlochry/Aviemore area, so although I say it Morris Leslie’s private museum for the last 3 years every year at this time we maybe to organise a few and has a low mileage. In the drive up to the auction drives next year around that part of the country. house David was telling me his area of expertise was engine building and tuning so I hope he will A fair amount of time was taken up with a come to my house next year to tune up the, both the discussion on motor oils at our last beer and blether, 3000 and the Jensen Healey. The winter will also with some changing with a 20/50 oil every year see me check over the Big Healey for the road. disregarding mileage, but there was also a healthy chat about Lucas Oil an American product which This now completes my stable of cars and I will although expensive might be a good alternative. have to adopt my late wife’s adage of one in, one out, although if something interesting came along I Graham Smith
32 DEAR MASCOT...
HELLO NEIL, and I avoided hitting anything. With no such thing It was good to see a photograph of myself and as breakdown insurance cover we drove home (yes Sprite in the new ‘members’ section of the Mascot quite slowly) and put the car in my garage with all magazine. the intention of replacing all the brake pipes. I am not sure what happened but life events soon took It would have been nicer if my name was under the over and any spare money went towards weddings, photograph and not someone else’s information. mortgages, setting up home, children family PATRICK BRUNT holidays etc etc etc. Ed’s note: Apologies for this mistake Patrick. Since then the car has just followed me around as we moved homes, but always having a nice dry garage to reside in (top priorities when house buying) and occasionally being uncovered and being reminded of some very enjoyable days motoring and getting up to all sorts of daft and occasionally dangerous driving related antics - and of course thinking that one day I would get everything repaired and properly restored. However, I soon started to yearn after open topped motoring again and rather than sorting out my Frogeye, I became the owner of a A.H Sprite Mk IV, followed by a Caterham 7 and currently a TVR Chimaera. But now, all 34 years later HELLO NEIL, the restoration project has This is a bit of a belated response (I joined the Club finally commenced. The about 2 months ago!) to the request for a little bit photo of the car without of information about my car/me re an entry in the any shiny bits is her as Welcome to New Members page in MASCOT. she headed of for the work Unfortunately I do not have any photos of my to begin. The completely Frogeye that include myself in recent years, so stripped down photo is if you use/print the photo of me sitting in the car where we are at today. Now in my parents garden you will see a very much younger version of myself - approximately 37 years looking at how little, or ago!. to be more accurate how much of the body has to be I bought 472 JPJ in 1975 from a chap who lived in Putney, London and used it to commute daily from replaced. Stamford Hill to Bethnal Green. During the first 8-10 So there we are, I am back yrs of ownership I spent quite a lot of my leisure on the learning curve and time ‘getting to know the car’ (tools and spares getting to know the car always at the ready) and involved with the A.H Club, again, and really looking attending the regular monthly meeting (Eastern forward to getting back Region) in St Albans and attending many other A.H behind the wheel of my dear Club Events. Over the years I did quite a lot of work on the car, bodywork, mechanicals, all usual stuff old Frogeye at some stage in keeping an older car going, that was until 1985 in 2020 (fingers crossed) when I pulling up outside the entrance to a busy and meeting up with fellow Surbtion railway station to pick up my fiancée and Sprite and Midget owners. hit the brakes. Nothing happened – my foot went to Kind regards the floor and I just carried straight on. Fortunately, a quick grab of the handbrake slowed things down RICHARD HAYDEN
33 THE WHO, THE WHAT & THE WHERE OF THE MIDGET & SPRITE CLUB COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Mark Hall, T: 01296 660103 E: [email protected] GENERAL SECRETARY Glyn Polly, T: 07544 302 575 E: [email protected] TREASURER David King, T: 01453 544202 E: [email protected] EDITOR Neil Thomas, T: 07891 684435 E: [email protected] AREA REP’S DELEGATE Vacant MEMBERSHIP Stuart Watson, “Staddlestones”, Thicknall Lane, Clent, Stourbridge, West Midlands. DY9 0HX. T: 01562 883076 E: [email protected] GENERAL MEMBER Alan Pritchett, T: 07720 238810 E: [email protected] Anthony Cutler, E: [email protected]
YOUNG PERSONS REP Liam Murphy, E: [email protected] FACEBOOK COORDINATOR Richard Wharmby, T: 07814 764546 E: [email protected] MARKETING OFFICER Clare Nedin, [email protected]
OFFICERS CLUB ARCHIVIST & Terry Horler, 63 Littledean, Yate, Bristol, BS37 8UQ. T: 01454 881770 TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION E: [email protected] MEMBERS ADVERTISING Neil Thomas, T: 07891 684435 E: [email protected] CAR REGISTERS SPRITES & MIDGETS Stuart Watson, E: [email protected] T: 01562 883 076 (EXCEPT MK1 SPRITES) SPRITES MK1 Gary Lazarus, [email protected] T: 020 7700 5696 REGALIA OFFICER Mike Grout, 55 Park Road, Spixworth, Norwich, NR10 3PJ. T: 01603 890211 E: [email protected] TECHNICAL ADVISOR Mark Boldry, E: [email protected] WEBMASTER Mike Bennett, [email protected] T: 01925 727479 TRADE ADVERTISING Gary Lazarus, [email protected] T: 020 7700 5696 ENQUIRIES E: [email protected] / [email protected]
AREA REPRESENTATIVES BRISTOL Terry Horler, T: 01454 881770 E: [email protected] CAMBRIDGESHIRE Graham Kirkup, T: 01223 511835 E: [email protected] CENTRAL Dave Warren, T: 07831 101850 E: [email protected] DEVON Michael Ellis, T: 07414 279074 E: [email protected] DORSET John Gully, T: 07876 334949 email [email protected] ESSEX Tim Wyman, T: 07828 245280 E: [email protected] HAMPSHIRE Terry Langridge, T: 01252 626063 E: [email protected] HEART OF ENGLAND Dave Colclough, T:07543641284 E:[email protected] HOME COUNTIES Mark Hall, T: 01296 660103 E: [email protected] KENT Alan Anstead, T: 01322 384050 E: [email protected] LINCOLNSHIRE Jason Elliot, T: 07780 815264 E: [email protected] LONDON Gary Lazarus, T: 020 7700 5696 E: [email protected] NORTHAMPTON Andrew Parrott, Mob: 07808 158623 E: [email protected] NORTH WEST Neil McLeod, T: 01772 466648 Mob: 07921 089 680 E: [email protected] NOTTS/DERBY Ian Cooke, T: 0115 938 3838 E: [email protected] OXFORD Grahame Gibbins, T: 01235 530456 E: [email protected] SCOTLAND Graham Smith, T: 0141 954 8276 E: [email protected] MIDGET & SOMERSET CURRENTLY VACANT SPRITE CLUB SOUTH WEST WALES David Hill, T: 01239 811307 E: [email protected] SURREY Mike Gorman, T: 01737-552256 E: [email protected] SUSSEX Chris Harding, T: 01342 718860 E: [email protected] WILTSHIRE Andy Cross, T: 01225 743554 E: [email protected] YORKSHIRE Mark Boldry T: 07471 606060 Anita Lachowicz T: 07484 682516 E: [email protected]
ALSO SEE THE CLUB Compiled by Neil Thomas. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL: NIGHTS SECTION FOR NEW Please advise me of any If you experience ‘MASCOT’ problems upon renewal, please contact AREAS AND CONTACTS changes, errors etc. the membership secretary or the treasurer straight away.
© Midget & Sprite Club. Printed by Quorum Print Services Ltd, Units 3&4, Lansdown Industrial Estate, Cheltenham, GL51 8PL 34 Tel: 01242 584984 Website: www.quorumprint.co.uk E-mail: [email protected] CLUB NIGHTS 3rd Saturday YORKSHIRE AREA. From October to March we meet on the third Saturday from 11.30am onwards at a Yorkshire pub. Contact Mark Boldry 07471 606060 or Anita Lachowicz 07484 682516 for venue details or email [email protected] 1st Tuesday ESSEX AREA. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month and from May – September its for a car run, ending in a pub for an evening meal and from October to April we meet at The Six Bells pub, Boreham, near Chelmsford, CM3 3JE. Please contact Tim Wyman tel 07828 245280, e mail: [email protected] 1st Wednesday CENTRAL AREA. Now meet each month 8.30pm onwards at the Tame Otter, Lichfield Road, Hopwas, Tamworth, B78 3AF, 8.30 pm onwards Contact: Dave Warren, Tel: 07831 101850. Email: [email protected] 1st Wednesday OXFORD AREA. Meet at the Blackhorse Pub, Gozzards Ford, Nr Abingdon. 7pm for those eating or 8pm for those not. Contact Grahame Gibbins at [email protected] 2nd Tuesday LONDON AREA (CONGESTION ZONE). Meet at The Ace Cafe at 7:30pm together with the Classic Cars Magazine night. Details: Gary Lazarus on 020 7700 5696 garyfrogeye@gmail 2nd Wednesday DEVON AREA. Meet at Court Farm, Abbotskerswell, TQ125 NY Devon. 7.30pm Michael Ellis [email protected] and telephone: 07414 279074 2nd Wednesday HEART OF ENGLAND. All welcome at the Green Dragon, Sambourne, Redditch B96 6NU 8pm gathering for a 8:30pm start. Further information from Dave Colclough on dave@colcloughsonline. co.uk or 0754 3641284. 2nd Wednesday NORTH WEST AREA. Meet at The Kilton, turn off M6 at Jct 20 onto A50 towards Macclesfield. Pub 4 miles on left. Please note new venue. Neil McLeod email [email protected] Tel 01772 466648 Mobile 07921 089680 2nd Wednesday BRISTOL AREA will meet at Wishing Well, Wapley Road, Codrington, Bristol BS37 6RY. From 8.00pm – or earlier for a Curry enjoyed in peace! Contact Terry Horler 01454 881770 [email protected] 2nd Thursday NOTTS/DERBY BORDER AREA. The Hunters Arms at Kilburn, DE56 0LU (just off the A38) from 7.30. Ian Cooke 0115 938 3838 [email protected] 2nd Thursday CAMBRIDGESHIRE AREA. Meet at The White Swan, Elsworth Road, Connington, Cambs CB23 4LN from 8pm 3rd Thursday NORTHAMPTON AREA. The Red Lion, Welford Road, Thornby, Northamptonshire, NN6 8SJ from 8pm 4th Thursday LINCOLNSHIRE AREA. Meeting at The Wishing Well Inn, Dyke, PE10 0AF from 7 o’clock onwards. 2nd Sunday EAST KENT GROUP. Meet at the Crown Inn, Sarre, CT7 0LF from 12.30hrs Contact Area Rep [email protected] or John Clark group co-ordinator [email protected] 3rd Tuesday SCOTLAND. Meet at Houstoun House Hotel, Broxburn, EH52 6JS. Meetings start at 7.30pm. Graham Smith 0141 954 8276 email: [email protected] 3rd Tuesday SURREY. Meet at The Blue Ball, Deans Lane, Walton-on-the-Hill, Tadworth Surrey KT20 7UE. 7.30pm onwards. Contact Mike Gorman, [email protected] Tel: 01737 552256 4th Monday DORSET. New Venue: Charlton Inn, Bournemouth Road, Charlton Marshall, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 9NH about 7.30pm 4th Thursday SUSSEX. Meet at Bolney Stage, Bolney, RH17 5RL from 19:00. 4th Thursday HAMPSHIRE. Meets at The Millhouse, North Warnborough, Odiham, RG29 1ET. Please ring Terry or Harriet Langridge on 01252 626063 for details. 4th Sunday KENT AREA. Back at The Angel, Addington Green, Kent until further notice. Contact Alan Anstead [email protected] Last Monday WILTSHIRE. Meet at The Barge Inn, Seend, Nr. Devizes, about 7pm. Contact Andy Cross on 01225 743554 or email [email protected] Last Wednesday HOME COUNTIES NORTH WEST for members in Herts, Beds, Bucks, Berks, N. London or anyone interested! Meet at the Chequers Inn, Redbourn, AL3 7AD from 6:30pm. Please contact Mike or Sue Gahan on email [email protected] or on 07850 488636. Last Thursday. SOMERSET AREA. Non-regular and occasional meetings and runs arranged throughout the year. Area contact Colin Chorley email: [email protected] for further information. NORTHERN IRELAND. [email protected]. If enough interest, will arrange a meeting. SOUTH WEST WALES. Non-regular and occasional meetings and runs arranged throughout the summer months. Please contact David Hill on 01239 811307 or email: [email protected]
35 WHO NEEDS EBAY? REACH FELLOW MEMBERS IN NEED OF SPARES, PROJECTS, HELP... MARKET PLACE FOR SALE: Using Moss/original part numbers where WANTED: Early 1958 Frogeye driver’s side door latch applicable. Photos available. Sprite3/Midget2 Seats mechanism with ‘long handle’, (not chrome knob). (HAN8 GAN3) also early MGB, black vinyl/white Richard 07802 852942 - Member no 4796. piping, excellent condition £300. Sprite/Midget [email protected] 1098 Cooper air cleaners AHA842 used but excellent unrestored condition with Cooper labels £100. WANTED: Pair of red seats for MG Midget Mk 1 (GAN Frogeye/Sprite/Midget bonnet hinges 14A4684, 1). Must be sound, in reasonable condition, useable, pair unused £50. Frogeye bonnet stays 14A4691, and as originally fitted. I think they’re the same as pair unused £50. Frogeye inner wing side panel, Frogeye and early Mk ll Sprites (HAN 6). John 020- RH SRP2105, unused £25. Sprite(not Frog)/Midget 8947 2631 [email protected] triangular web RH AHA5436, unused Heritage panel £20. Frogeye/Sprite2 & Midget1, rear inner bulkhead repair panels L&R unused £30 pair. Morris Minor 1967 ribcase gearbox unrestored £140. Ribcase bell housing £20. Small items can be shipped at cost, big items buyer collects. Based in NW Kent. Richard 07802 852942 - Member no 4796. [email protected]
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