Vintage Minor Register

My 1934 Minor 4-door Saloon back on the road 50 years after it fell apart from woodworm and dry rot !
Newcastle upon Tyne Quayside.

Peter congratulations your car looks magnificent. The photo is great too and has a very authentic date stamp in the background!
Martin

Thanks Martin.
Just a few finishing jobs left to do on the headlining. Then maybe the weather will warm up a bit for a few 'test flights'.
(minus 10 degrees forecast for tonight)
Newcastle is hosting 3 Rugby World Cup 2015 matches in October
South Africa v Scotland
New Zealand v Tonga
Samoa v Scotland

Peter,

Yes, congratulations! These are not the easiest Minors to restore!

I'm guessing that's the Tyne behind?

Chinese puzzled ?

They are clearly thinking, "Hasn't it got too many doors for a Minor?"

Or, "how many Wok's could we make out of that?"

Or, "Maybe we can start up production in Shanghai?"

What they're actually saying is:
中國智力玩具, （尤指）七巧板, 複雜的情況…

Cambridge Dictionary definition of a Chinese Puzzle:

A game where you have to solve the problem of fitting many different pieces together, especially boxes inside other boxes
A situation that is complicated and difficult to understand

Sounds about right !

Have now clocked up over 200 miles - not without incidents… a stuck exhaust valve, possibly due to tappet gap too small,
(.004 cold as recommended but now .006 on the exhaust valves). Also intermittent cutting out… yet to be cured.
However excursion continue including this one:
AAO463 dwarfed by "Tiny Tim" the not so tiny 70 ton steam drop hammer, built by Glen and Ross (Engineers) Glasgow, which was installed at the Darlington Forge in 1883, to forge ship's stern frames,
before moving to Rotherham in 1912 to make railway wheels and turbine rotors.
Now the entrance gate to Beamish Museum.

Superb photos! Thanks for posting them! I'll also add them to M 153.

Spring arrived in the North East, (for today anyway) and not even enough wind to power the turbine at Blyth harbour.

Very nice Peter. I think spring is arriving here (Seattle) at 3-45 this afternoon - about 2 hrs 45 mins from now!

Keep the great photos coming!

Ian

Dex Garage in Newcastle upon Tyne was constructed in 1930 in the Art Deco style. It was one of the the earliest provincial multi-storey parking garages to be built and the first outside London to use the staggered floor system for parking, with half-levels connected by short ramps, familiar to multi-storey car parks today.

There was a forecourt for petrol sales, showrooms, offices, workshops. Each floor had a turntable and a vehicle lift and there was a chauffeur’s lounge and washrooms.
It was the official retailer for Rolls Royce and Bentley and auto agents for Daimler and Lanchester.
The name Dex was a homage to Lex Garage (1929) in London, and a pun on it’s parking decks.

Today it’s an NCP car park and although a Grade II listed building it’s under threat of demolition by the City Council.
So I thought I’d take a couple of black and white shots before it disappears...