Anyone seen anything like this before?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 1:44 pm
So I decided to check out a spare block today, in anticipation of a forthcoming rebuild of a spare engine for my 1929 tourer. The block is from a Minor, engine number 29385 (so about September 1930), so it is a large dynamo block with the corresponding concave front.
Here's what I found:
Nothing odd here - no welding, no repairs, but:
There's no sign of any welding, so the conclusion I have come to is that someone at Morris Engines took a wooden early block casting pattern, sawed the front off and neatly slotted in a concave front section. Waste not - want not? (But why not simply chisel out the front of the original pattern?!)
The first Minor engine to have the large dynamo was at chassis M15136, so about October 1929, so almost a year before this block was cast.
Has anyone else come across a block like this?
Here's what I found:
Nothing odd here - no welding, no repairs, but:
There's no sign of any welding, so the conclusion I have come to is that someone at Morris Engines took a wooden early block casting pattern, sawed the front off and neatly slotted in a concave front section. Waste not - want not? (But why not simply chisel out the front of the original pattern?!)
The first Minor engine to have the large dynamo was at chassis M15136, so about October 1929, so almost a year before this block was cast.
Has anyone else come across a block like this?