Back when a hard days work meant you worked hard. Building a 1936 Chev - some of these clips are bloody good,I can't believe the scale on production for back then. Great music to set the scene too. http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_3 http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_2 http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_4
All that work and rely on some spoons to pick up the oil and tip it over the crank.....last time I complain about being an office boy.
That was fascinating, thanks Motu. Some interesting old time safety standards in the steelworks there, raking up red hot metal.
Why do those men keep moving that lump of hot metal back and forth in the banging-up-and-down machine? Why does that man stick a dial gauge down the cylinder bores then not look at the result? Why does Daddy climb on top of Mummy at night? The bit making the coil sprinks was interesting Henry Fraud has a lot to answer for
Those springs were going into the Chev ''knee action'' front suspension - called Blue Bonnet or something. You would probably not see them on a Chev,but the LIP Vauxhall had the same thing. Kind of like a sprung hub compared to real suspension - sort of like having 6 disc rotors and an 8.50x19in front tyre.
LIP ? Not in 1936 . They were post war. I owned one of them, it was a quite nice car . The knee action front came out, from memory, around 1935 in the 12 and 14 hp models. My father had a 10 of the era which was no more nasty than the reSt of the prewar small Brits. But I don't think the little one had knee actions. I loved the fluted bonnet on the old Vauxhalls. It really only suited the pre war designs with the high scuttled, hut it persisted in some form right through to the early Victors ( now THERE was a nasty car)
