Interesting Find

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by wayne lane

Hi Tony thanks for adding the extra photos looking forward to sourcing pictures of the rear body Thanks Wayne

Nice find, but a lot of work as Morris-Commercial spares are hard to come by.

For rear body drawings, see Mike Kelly's work in the thread WW2 British 15 cwt body drawings.

HTH,
Hanno

[Mike K]

Tony had previously contacted me . The chassis nr is stamped on the rear pass side spring mount. I have various spares if u need anything Wayne.
Production finished during 1942 , not sure of the exact date. The later ones , 1941 production, found here in Aust. seem to be refugees ( not found in the AWM books for some reason ), these have the closed type cab and full windscreen like the C4 has. The chassis are rather flimsy, I can flip one over easily - try doing that with a CMP chassis ! The rear axle is strong with heavy duty half shafts. The chassis are prone to rust , took me ages to find a decent chassis. Somebody found a nice CS8 in Victoria recently, , seen on the ' old wrecks' or similar Facebook page , its location is unknown to me ATM. There is a nice original barn find CS8 in the Moama museum, ex John Carroll of Ballarat, it was seen at the Ballarat airshow 1985 , a few of us were there. Interesting, the CS8 prototype was built in 1934 , a pre-war liaison involved the WD and MCC together . Production seems to be around 21000 built , all body types.

I do have a 1939 dated example , and a 1940 both aero screen types. The engine parts are scarce , its basically a pre war Morris 25 saloon car engine also used in the CV trucks . I managed to buy new valves from Cox & Turner who have other bits.Found new pistons on eBay .Made new valve guides on my lathe . The water jacket cover screws broke as I undid them, need drilling and tapping

[Tony Smith]

Inspiration, Wayne!:

http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a2712/91520

[Mike K]

These barn finds keep turning up now and then in the UK .

I think around 200 CS8's arrived here in Aust. as refugee cargo . These appear to be from contract V4154 , with the full cab and windscreen. Or were these CS8's retrofitted with full cabs somewhere ? Who knows ? Lanes Motors the Morris agents, got first dip at purchasing these and each little Morris dealership in Victoria got a few to sell . I recall Colin Anderson telling me , just after the war, the Morris agents in Shepparton had CS8's for sale . Colin's neighbour had a CS8 for sale at one time in the early 50's , but Colin said it looked too antique looking , he didn't buy it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-RARE-194...&ul_noapp=true

[ozm29c]

Wayne,
I tried to send these photos to you by PM but I can't seem to attach an image to my message. No matter, I will post the detailed engine photos here for you.
Cheers
JW

[ozm29c]

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