8 cwt pictures

Well, Mike K will be happy anyway. . . . . . . . .

R.

Some more?

At last, the last. . . . . . . .

Mike K happy now?

I have some more. . . . . . . .

R.

[Ian McCallum]

Originally Posted by Richard Notton

Some more?

I like the first photo in this series as it shows a WOC1. What publication is this photo from and do you have any more of WOC 1's?

In answer to Mike Kelly's question the WOC1 would win any race of PU's, closely followed by the Humber!

Ian

Originally Posted by Ian McCallum

I like the first photo in this series as it shows a WOC1. What publication is this photo from and do you have any more of WOC 1's?

In answer to Mike Kelly's question the WOC1 would win any race of PU's, closely followed by the Humber!

Ian

Well, I'm not so sure.

While young Ballard was in the final throes of completing the 5 yr restoration of his PU there was an old boy visitor to the garage. He said he drove Morris PUs in the desert and they had 80mph out of them after wallying the velocity governor (2650rpm), certainly you'd need the desert open spaces as the steering is a tad vague at best.

It seemed unlikely so we set out to check. Assuming 4000rpm at the prop shaft and the diff ratio is well publicised, all that was left was the tape measure around the Olympic sand tyres and a bit of maths.

82.5mph IIRC.

R.

[Mike K]

A special PU event . It's probably closed, damn . I do like those old pre war newsreels filmed at Brooklands , showing hotted up cars flying over the barrier into the air , literally . 100mph Austin 7's ... And other rockets on wheels with almost nil safety devices on board .

Mike