New Find British Tilly

[mshackleton]

Hello Wayne
This is the only known Hillman Tilly in Australia and joins a very small clique of other Tillys down under. This particular machine came to our attention in 2006 when it came up for sale on Ebay. We contacted the owner and did a short piece in our magazine Tilly Text. However, we have heard nothing since and it would be great if you could get in touch us. Go to the link below and you will find out a lot more about the British Tilly.

Cheers
Mike Shackleton
Tilly Register
http://www.tillyregister.com/home.html

[Mike K]

blimey ..it's a rarity here , and so complete.

An older VMVC member ( who really knows what's what about ex military cars ), has mentioned to me a few times, a firm in Melbourne was running a fleet of tillies in the early 1950's . I'm sure he said they were Hillmans .

I know of a Morris tilly being restored in West. Aust. The tassie Morris tilly went to the UK, it was badly rusted and almost beyond it.

I know of a restored Standard being shipped to the UK , but they are by far the most numerous here.

Mike

[warren brown]

What an extraordinarily interesting vehicle...

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Wayne - what a ripper little vehicle you found. It is the sort I would like in my fleet. Well done.

Bob

[gordon]

It'll fit in an ordinary garage, tow on a trailer, when it's done you will be able to run down to the shops for a can of beans in it, without spending your life savings on fuel, and while you are working on it I'd guess ever single part of it could be lifted by hand.

Nice.

[jack neville]

Wayne,

PM sent

Jack

[Larry Hayward]

Out of interest going back to the first post and the photos of this Hillman Tilly, does anyone know whether the vents in the side of the engine cover are early or late mods, as I have seen a few photos of Hillman Tillies without this, and one in the UK being restored without vents was built in 1942 (for the British Army).