31-03-2018, 05:49 PM
(31-03-2018, 04:23 PM)Martin Prior Wrote:(31-03-2018, 04:05 PM)Colin Swinbourne Wrote: The other thing that puzzles me is that the screws are brass, my understanding is that steel or iron screws would have been used in the ash frame (that’s certainly what is used in both my Delage and Rover) Martin is this correct?
We're working on a body from a 1913 Armstrong-Whitworth, in which the few remaining screws ARE brass. I suspect that the choice of screw material was probably down to a matter of cost and the fact that brass screws going into hardwood need to be handled with care!
As you may be aware Martin, there's a 1912 Armstrong Whitworth 15/20 with Eshott style Two Seater open body - chassis number 2500 and registration X 2463 in The Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne. Beamish Museum have an earlier example - a 1906 open Touring Car registration S 130. Both vehicles would have been built just a few mile down the road from me at Armstrong Whitworth's Scotswood Works in Newcastle upon Tyne which manufactured cars from 1904 to 1918 when production was moved to Coventry to become Armstrong-Siddeley. So the body you're working on would most likely be a product of Scotswood Works.