Lynx II, hull # 4225

[Lynn Eades]

Tony, try Aetna A2256-31 and National 2065 for a non greasable one

[Lynn Eades]

Hub with brg. lube hole.

[Peter Duggan]

Guys,

Just like the old Willie Nelson song, the Lynx is now "Back on the road again". Gerry and Robin came by last night to ensure that everything was put together correctly again and much more. The shifter now works like a dream, without trying to engage fourth and reverse simultaneously, while the clutch works as advertised.

Took the Lynx out for a nice run today, long enough to realize that I now need to find myself some good goggles. Looking to find something period correct and effective.

Peter


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The Lynx restoration has enabled me to meet some quality people along the way.

[Robin Craig]

Dear Peter,

I am delighted to have done nothing more than be Gerry's sidekick and tool passing assistant and poor taker of pictures in this escapade. As you well know, Gerry is the mechanic not me but as his friend I have ridden shotgun on his regular Thursday trips to fettle the Lynx.

Gerry gets a distinct pleasure in working on vehicles because people would like them fixed unlike his everyday work.

How you were ever able to change gears as well as you did, still is incredible when you could see how that carrier assembly was on the shaft. You were so lucky, we shook our heads the whole way home after that discovery. We feel you must have horseshoes around every corner.

Any goggles and a good toque will be the order of the day for much more driving this fall, I can recall the syndrome of "Ferret forehead" gained one Remembrance Day in Ottawa, one that you will repeat if not suitably dressed, we forget so very quickly the protection afforded by a windshield (windscreen).

It has been fun to be a along for the ride. Fun is the key word in all of this.

[Robin Craig]

In my official role as Sidekick I am underemployed during these outings and spend much of the time looking at details and asking Peter what appear to be inane questions which make him think and then come up with the obvious answer, which defied my pea brain.

Sometimes, and it is rare, I ask a question that has no obvious answer.

In discussion it is obvious how the escape hatch opens on the inside, as there is a lever handle for that. The outside of the hatch has a keyhole into which a boss from the slam latch body inserts and comes almost flush to the outside, so that it could be used.

In discussion with Peter we searched the manual for a key to open the latch, the manual shows the complete equipment schedule and line drawing representations of the items. No key is illustrated.

When reading the same manual and the description of the parts and their operation it clearly states that the escape hatch opens from the inside using the lever and "a key from the outside".

There is no illustration of the key anywhere.

We surmised that the concept of opening the hatch from the outside was a good idea but in reality that notion was dropped and a key was not part of the vehicle kit.

Can anyone comment on this?

Was this slam latch (my name for it) used on any other vehicle and was there a key on those vehicles? Is there a photo of one?

This is the first of two conundrums we have found regarding this Lynx. Picture of the latch for recognition purposes.

[Richard Farrant]

As the Lynx was based on the Daimler Scout Car, bodywise, that lock looks very much like a copy of the Daimler component and the key came with the lock (when I found a nos one) and not listed in the parts book, but is shown in the CES.

[Alastair Thomas]

An interesting question to which I have no answer. I have made keys for my Lynx but that does not really help answering the main questions.
Why would you wish to open the hatch from the outside? I suggest that the only circumstance I can think of is when the vehicle has turned over and you wish to help the occupants out of it. So this raises the next question: how would you expect a casual passer-by to have a key? Were they a common item used on many other things/vehicles? If the vehicle is upright and the driver wishes to get in, in the case of the Lynx II, he would simply remove the canvass cover. In the case of the Lynx I, he would be carrying the keys to remove the padlock securing the roof hatch.
As anyone who has contemplated it, access via the escape hatch is very much a desperate option.
I am also intrigued as to where the driver would keep his key to the escape hatch.
Alastair
F60S
Lynx I MkIII*