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This is the
worldwide club for all owners and enthusiasts of Standard Cars
"Dedicated
to the preservation of Standard Cars 1903-1963"
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The Club's stand at the Restoration Show
Paul Newsome, Shelia
Brown, Mike Wilkes and Dennis Brown helping on the Club stand.
The National Agricultural
Centre is the venue for the Restoration show each year. This is where
the Classic Car clubs are invited to put on a practical demonstration of
car restoration skills.
In the past the club has demonstrated the
rebuilds of body work on a Standard Little 9 and chassis renovations on
a Flying 8. This year we chose to
demonstrate the rebuild of an engine, that chosen was the wet-liner 4
cylinder from the Vanguard. This was displayed next to a car in which it
was fitted. Both the engine and the car belonged to club member Brian
Birch.
the Vanguard
engine stripped down into parts (click to enlarge)
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Brian takes up the
story: This engine was developed initially for the Vanguard of
1947. It started life as an 1800cc unit but was soon changed to
the 2088cc version that you see here. As you can see, this
engine is an extremely sturdy unit. It incorporates a hefty
three bearing crank with large main and big-end journal. The
cylinder liners can be turned through 90 degrees at a time to
take up wear on the thrust side and can be replaced
individually.
You have probably been
indoctrinated with the myth that this engine also powered the
Fergie Tractor, but this is entirely untrue. I quote from the
"Story of the Vanguard" produce by the Standard Motor
Company in 1949":
The Standard Vanguard Car and
the Ferguson Tractor have not the same engine,
both engines are basically the same type with 4 cylinders,
overhead valves and easily replaceable cylinder liners of the
wet type, but as the 2 engines operate under entirely |
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of car or tractor propulsion, there are many differences of
detail and arrangement (different block, different head,
different sump, different manifolds, to name just a few!!!) The
thing that matters is that there are enough similarities and so
few fundamental differences that a production of 1000 units a
day for car or tractor could be scheduled as a regular factory
operation
This engine type has however
been used in other vehicles with huge success, notably Triumph
Roadster, Triumph Renown, TR2,TR3,TR4, Swallow Doretti and
Morgan.
Around us lots of other clubs
were rebuilding cars, transmissions or welding bodywork.
Particularly notable however was this stand where a complete, |
The Triumph
Roadster chassis (click to enlarge)
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chassis of a Triumph Roadster, also containing the same engine ,
was on display.
Lots of Club members popped in
to see us over the day, and the club would like to say a big
thank you to Brian Birch for setting up and breaking down the
stand. We owe you Brian! |
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