13-11-2020, 08:00 AM
Hi Howard
I have a collection of similarly failed axles but dunno the background. Whether it is the usual mode of failure or whether these failures survive because the cars were still "'mobile "', I dunno. Some have suggested original Seven axles were case hardened but the Regent ones seem very hard throughout.
In the sixties a young chap I had encountered had a Seven. Away from home he had axle trouble and called into my fathers home for tools. He had great difficulty balancing the key while he replaced the hub. My father was something of a perfectionist and had never seen or imagined anything like it!
I have a collection of similarly failed axles but dunno the background. Whether it is the usual mode of failure or whether these failures survive because the cars were still "'mobile "', I dunno. Some have suggested original Seven axles were case hardened but the Regent ones seem very hard throughout.
In the sixties a young chap I had encountered had a Seven. Away from home he had axle trouble and called into my fathers home for tools. He had great difficulty balancing the key while he replaced the hub. My father was something of a perfectionist and had never seen or imagined anything like it!