Unusual CALDO cylinder head on eBay

[Nick Lettington]

I found this a bit interesting... It is almost certainly based on the Mk2 Speedex head (sometimes found with no name cast in) but the chamber shapes are a little different.

Does anyone know anything about this head?


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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156485750286?...R77V2afcZA

[Alan]

Not a name I’ve come across before. Might be just the photograph but the casting looks a mite porous.

[Colin Morgan]

Advert from 1962:


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This page refers:

http://www.fordspecials.co.uk/dante.html

[Chris KC]

I believe Speedex packed up in 1962, and the addresses are barely 5 miles apart...

[Steve Jones]

Robin Read traded as The Sporting Motorists Agency Ltd. producing components under the Dante name. Didn't he go to Lotus in 1959?

Steve

[Nick Lettington]

That's great. I couldn't decide whether the head was old or a recent creation. I don't need it, but it's interesting how interconnected all the suppliers of special bits were

[John Cornforth]

Doesn't Caldo mean Hot in Latin ? Maybe a sign of a classical education. Dante certainly had an Inferno !

[Alan]

Not really, but it does in Italian.

[IanClayton]

Robin Read's firm had Dan Taylor produce Dante (Dan Tay---) heads and subsequently Jem Marsh folowed from the same source ( the Horeston Horrors) with his Speedex heads, wheels etc --maybe your finned brake drums ??--- \\ so think this from Dan's shed.

Does anyone outv there know the sourcing foundries for " Cambridge" and Montgomery's "Super Accessories" heads??

[Malcolm Parker]

I read somewhere that the Dante heads etc were made in Dan's garden shed using aluminium from scrap RR Merlin engines.   I have an unused Dante head and the quality of the metal looks to be vastly superior to that of the Caldo head.