Vintage Minor Register

Paul, These make interesting reading - thank you for sharing them. I’m afraid that a lot of (most of?) the theory goes over my head but I think it is clear that the figure bandied about of 120 ft. lbs. is excessive. Indeed, as you’ve noted, 25% of the static loading is probably sufficient and would ...

Mike Tebbett just sent in this link - London traffic in 1932. An incredible mix of transportation. This is how it was done before traffic lights. Spot the Minors! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyvUKzur48&feature=youtu.be In Belfast in the 1960s there was a six way junction controlled for man...

As Ian knows, I’ve been doing a bit of reading up on our 8” brakes and hope to offer some ideas for interesting performance improvements in the near future. But this is the sort of technical paper I’m struggling with. I wasn’t bad at maths at skule, but this is ridiculous :shock: 1B83BC8A-6F47-429B-...

Many thanks for your kind words, Paul, it’s good to see that there’s at least one reader! I had to dig deep to get information on how tight to tighten the nut but everything I found pointed to around 50-60% of the static load bearing capacity of the bearing. When you look at the standard tool for ti...

Does anyone know whether Morris made their own brakes for the Minor or bought them in. In an article in Motor Sport in 2001 Bill Boddy said that Alford and Alder (the brakes and axle makers) were bought by Morris following his practice of buying up suppliers where possible. So were the brakes made b...