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1 minute ago, Bod said:

A40 Countryman, father had one, paint held the rust together, in the shape of front wings.

 

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Like a Range Rover and the same rusting problems with tailgates and lifting windows.

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19 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

Good reply, there were a few 4 plus overdrive such as the PB cresta for one. No it wasnt the Princess. They did a dress with the same name 😉

I had an MGB roadster with overdrive on 3 and 4th brilliant Idea and great fun on country drives.... 

 

Same engine  went into the marina TC iirc. 

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21 hours ago, bizzard said:

Many of the old BMC cars like the Austin A30-35, A40 Farina used strange brake systems. The front brakes were normal hydraulic but the rears were sort of semi hydraulic mechanical. Piped from the main Master cylinder was a hydraulic cylinder under the floor roughly under the drivers seat with like a stirrup around the piston which was connected to a rod which led to a rear twindle tree-compensater with a pair of rods which accuated each rear wheel brake shoes.

THe Riley RMA series had a similar  tandem braking system invented by Percy Riley. It had the "advantage of of still having rear brakes if the hydraulics failed, and front brakes if the rods broke (which thy had a habit of doing!!)

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7 hours ago, David Schweizer said:

THe Riley RMA series had a similar  tandem braking system invented by Percy Riley. It had the "advantage of of still having rear brakes if the hydraulics failed, and front brakes if the rods broke (which thy had a habit of doing!!)

Also on the BMC's the handbrake which was on the righthand side of the driver was connected to that same cylinders stirrup which elleviated the use of another separate cable to the rear. Can't remember if the Riley was the same.  I think the 2.1/2 litre had the same OHC engine as the Wolseley 6/80 of which the police were fond of.

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2 hours ago, bizzard said:

Also on the BMC's the handbrake which was on the righthand side of the driver was connected to that same cylinders stirrup which elleviated the use of another separate cable to the rear. Can't remember if the Riley was the same.  I think the 2.1/2 litre had the same OHC engine as the Wolseley 6/80 of which the police were fond of.

 

No, It was the Riley Pathfinder which had the same engine as the Riley 2 1/2 litre. It was a classic Riley 2 1/2 litre four cylinder twin cam OHV engine - top speed 90mph.  The Wolsley 6/80 had a completely different engine, which was a newly designed (Morris) 2.2 litre six cylinder single OHC engine - top speed 80mph.

 

 

 

 

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22 hours ago, David Schweizer said:

 

No, It was the Riley Pathfinder which had the same engine as the Riley 2 1/2 litre. It was a classic Riley 2 1/2 litre four cylinder twin cam OHV engine - top speed 90mph.  The Wolsley 6/80 had a completely different engine, which was a newly designed (Morris) 2.2 litre six cylinder single OHC engine - top speed 80mph.

 

 

 

 

Thanks David. I'd forgotten a lot of the early stuff now. Only worked on a couple of Riley RM's

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