OT - a real Liberty

Be interested to see how those wire wheels handle the torque.

Here's another toy, few more cubes though..

For those living somewhat further south than Carlisle & the Borders, Peter Grieve is bringing his ground-running Merlin to the Headington and Stockley Steam Rally, Wilts on Sat 2nd Sun 3rd July.

It's the Bristol club rally on the Sunday, so a visit to see the Merlin growling away on Saturday will certainly be in order for yours truly!

regards,

Kim Siddorn.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!

Full address of event site - Home Farm, Heddington, Nr. Calne, Wiltshire. ... PO Box 702 Swindon, Wilts.

regards,

Kim Siddorn.

Grieve is bringing his ground-running Merlin to the Headington and Stockley Steam Rally, Wilts on Sat 2nd Sun 3rd July.

I'd like to see it but cant get your link to work.

Mart> A Liberty Vee 12 squeezed into a 1927 Minerva sports car.

Hi Martin, try

Thanks Dave, nice looking lump.

Mart> Hi Martin, try

The torque is effectively limited by the tyres.

John

Ever owned a high powered car with wire wheels?

It looks to me like a rusty/corroded non-running lump inserted for pictorial purposes and I doubt it ever ran in that form. ttfn Roland

Especially as the front of the engine is where the radiator should be with no more room in front of it.

There are several photos, not all of the same lump. I think what they did was to shoehorn the unrestored lump into the car to see if it was possible, then took it back out and did it properly.

I've had some fairly powerful motorcycles with spoked wheels in my time, but only ever had trouble with the dumpy spokes on the full width rear hub on the Vincent Norton. This I cured by fitting "waisted" spokes, not waisted at all, really, just thicker at the hub end. I had no more trouble after that.

I recall that early Comstar wheels fitted to Honda CB750 F1's occasionally gave trouble with the rivets that held the spokes to the rim corroded out of sight with predictable and quite exciting results. They were anodised, but the anodising cracked when the rivets were sett. Dunno what Mr Honda did, but they fixed it in short order!

I'm told that they have now produced over 15,000,000 Zetec units and not had a single failure. If this is the case, it is an amazing record - anyone know about this?

regards,

Kim Siddorn.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!

Could you mean VTEC?

Tom

If you are referring to the Ford Zetec its not surprising as this engine in its various forms powers every car they make.

Martin P

"CHARLES HAMILTON" wrote

Certainly do! Including the ruddy great 'anchor chains' on the back axle to save the leaf springs from the worst of the torque reaction. Is it still campaigned?

BTW most famous ground based user of the Liberty engine was probably Parry Thomas's Babs.