This is tacked on the top of the left door of my RN, and I'm curious if it's likely to be a "genuine" relic of this car's history, or an affectation, as it were:

   

If nothing else, it's fairly charming, despite (or perhaps because) someone forgot their straightedge when tacking it up. The plaque at initial glance appears to be something other than card, perhaps plastic, though for 1930 (if it's indeed period) wouldn't that be anachronistic?

There being no shortage of gents named "David Brown" (the plural surely would be "Davids Brown") in British automotive history, makes this difficult to research. If the Aberdeen in question is the Scottish one, it would appear that whatever stood at that address before the war is long gone, now replaced with residences.

I cannot get to my Ruby shell to check at the moment, but does anyone know whether there is anything structural behind the middle section where the patent plate fits? I am considering fitting a different instrument panel in the centre and would need to drill there for the instruments to fit.

Thank you. 

Jamie

Doing a complete re-build on a spare 26VA carburetor. It is marked '7' on the flange so know it
is the correct one for the car.
The difference I notice is the mounting screws for the emulsion block.
The diagram/ service bulletin I have shows four screws to fix it to the carburetor bowl, the one
I am re-furbishing only has three !, two toward the top and one toward the bottom.
Also the emulsion block has 'MK2' stamped into it.
Checks with a new gasket show all the holes line up with only (possibly) a
smaller gap where the bottom screw goes through one of the fuel passageways.
I do not think this will cause a problem though as it would have always been this way.

So it looks like there maybe a MK1 and MK2 version of the Zenith 26VA, so more for interest
wondering when the crossover from MK1 to 2 was as the carburetor should be
from circa 1933-34 and the bulletin gives dates from 33 to 39.

Also found what appears to be a flame trap in the manifold which appears to
be original. Never seen one before so removed it. Do like flames out the carb when
it backfires !.

Martin, GM6VXB

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I am rebuilding a D type rear axle and have bought modern lip seals for the inner end of the half shafts. They are a very loose fit in the axle case but won't fit in the cups  which held the original felt seals. Can someone please advise on how the modern seals should be fitted? Also, does the surface of the half shafts have to be smoothed where the seals fit?
Many thanks in advance.

Could anybody identify this cutout? No makers marks visible, just 3315A 6v 0 54 stamped into the base

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Well, I think so. Perhaps not to everyone's taste....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365501786749?...3WBoL---zA

Here we have a scene at the 1961 750MC Inter-Centre Driving Test meeting at Chateau Impney. VF 4876 began life as a 1928 RF fabric saloon; by the late 1940s it was resting in a Midlands scrapyard. Resurrected as the special we see here, driven by Tony Poole, it survives on the A7CA chassis list as a 'boat-tailed tourer' - this description could be of a replica PA 2-seater, or it could be that of a pointed-tail special. Anyone know it?

Photo submitted by Robin Boyce.

   

Do the front wings on the RP saloon have piping between the wing and the scuttle & flitch plate?

Assembling a new steering column for my RP saloon, I would like to get the throttle & ignition levers fitted correctly.
At the top of the column, the top lever is the throttle (3 o'clock) and the lower one is the ignition (9 o'clock).
The thinnest tube is the throttle and the middle tube is the ignition.
So far so good (I hope).

For the levers at the bottom of the column, I'm fairly sure that the longer one is the throttle and the shorter one is the ignition.
Which way do they point - do they line up with the corresponding levers at the top of the column or are they 180° from them?
Which way up do they go - with the boss at the top or at the bottom? The List of Spare Parts shows the shorter (ignition) lever boss downwards and the longer (throttle) lever boss upwards (see picture).


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Any useful tests for a loose little end? I've got a regular tapping under load, which disappears when you lift off.