Mystery steering boxes

[warren brown]

Thanks Dave. I remember trying to remove the steering wheel from my scout car - identical to the one above from what I can see - and it had seized on terribly. The bakolite on mine was nowhere near as good as yours Keith and no matter how carefully I tried to get it free - it just disintegrated in my hands, piece by piece until there was only a rusty, wire skeleton of the steering wheel - still seized on. Enter - the hacksaw. Then I tried to find a replacement steering wheel - not so easy. From what I understood - Scout Cars only ever had three spoke steering wheels - some in bakolite and some in painted steel. There were four-spokers in bakolite around - (I can't remember what they were from, perhaps Studebaker?) - and for a make-do effort I got hold of a four-spoker in the style of a weapons carrier's which I'm pretty sure was from a Studey. Eventually, the wonderful Richard Farrant (g'day Richard!) located a steel three-spoker in the UK - ex-Greek army with some Greek lettering scratched into the rim. (The old lady next door is Greek and I've been tempted to get her to translate it - but Gawd knows what it says. She might belt me...)

[Keith Webb]

Many thanks, Jim, Warren and Dave. The ID would make sense given their colour. Anyway they appear to be in excellent mechanical condition although the steering wheels are less than perfect, they sound better than the one you had, Warren!