Ruby steering arm

[Bob Culver]

After the steering failure my father became very crack conscious. So when i took over the car we took all arms and stub axles to a local firm equipped with the then not common detection eqpt. The owner quite enjoyed the hunt. He was located opposite a local car racing track (Levin) which served a vast area and recounted tales of racing cars riddled with cracks! His fee was the "price of a packet of fags". At todays cigarette prices we would not have been impressed. The lh stub axle was half way through its wall thickness. The car had been driven extensively on very corrugated roads and all roads were very rough for years following minimal  mtce during WW2