Austin Seven max weight?

[andrew34ruby]

I always thought the problem with putting a wire-wheeled car on brake rollers was not while testing, but was the harsh drop into the rollers before testing.

[Tony Griffiths]

Oliver, I've just sent you a PM.

[AustinWood]

I don't see that there's anything a rolling road can do to an Austin Seven wheel that just driving around won't be doing all the time.

[Steve kay]

Not done a lot of trialling, Andrew?

[Hurvinek]

Hello friends!

Well, 40 stones or 250 kg... I will try to get this data accepted by the transportation office.

Thank you very much for your inputs.

Best,
Oliver

[David Witton]

Had to get my 32 four seat tourer weighed at a local weighbridge before shipment to the USA. It came out at 522 kgs with 2 galls fuel and without spares and tools

[andrew34ruby]

Not done a lot of trialling, Andrew?

Not done any Austin trialling Steve, but have watched some and 40 or more years ago was involved with Land Rover trialling. None of the trials involved such a sudden shock as Austin seven wheels driven carefully into the brake rollers. I was assisting with tests for a while and it was decided not to put sevens on the rollers because of the sudden drop.  ......of course the memory can play tricks over 40 years!

[AustinWood]

Surely the wheels have to be able to with stand a small sudden drop. How about driving over a kerb or a pothole? I have never noticed much of a drop on to rollers which in any case can be taken very gently.

[dickie65]

The only down side of using a rolling road for brake testing is the narrow front track of a Seven.
My car had about 1/2" clearance each side so the car had to be placed very carefully,
The bigger wheels let the car onto the rollers more gently than the 10" wheels on a Mini.
The actual process of using the rolling road will not harm the car at all.
I used to be able to lock the front wheels up on the rollers but I suspect my legs are not as strong nowadays !
I have not put my car through an MOT test for the last ten years as the garage I used closed down due to retirement.
It was a specialist garage that did restoration work and one of the partners ran an XPAG engined MG J2 and the other one an M Type MG.
So they knew their way round the old stuff.
I now do my own brake tests with a Tapley Meter and Brake Efficency Chart.

I think my EB 65 weight is 9 3/4CWT or 496 KG according to period publications.

[AustinWood]

I weighed our 1929 fabric saloon when I got my bathroom scales (One wheel at a time). It came out at about 500kg including all the junk I carry around.
In the 80s/90s I worked for Crypton in Bridgwater where their brake testers were made. I don't remember there being much of a drop onto the rollers. Not as deep as the pothole in the courtyard outside my house at least.