23-11-2018, 02:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-11-2018, 02:17 AM by Tony Press.)
(22-11-2018, 12:06 PM)Colin Morgan Wrote: Accepting that the nosepiece is generally a forging, then, I wonder if it started off as a casting on the very early cars ('22/'23)? This might account for it being described as a casting in a few references?
Colin
I have just seen a front nosepiece with two cow-horn holes and a continuous flange where the side-rails rivet on which would seem to date it to 1923.
It looks to have a 'flash' line around it which might indicate a forging.
Tony.