Tickford @ Coffs Harbour.

Wayne

All good questions.

May I suggest that the Tickford was the first SUV it had seating for 7 (very squashed) people in a car/station wagon body and constant four wheel drive.

The dash was the same although the front doors had wind up windows. The rear had a full width tailgate and flat floor with wheel humps, things that we wouldn't see in other Land Rovers until the production of Range Rover in 1970.

It's demise was in the problems of mass producing a wooden framed body and having it hold together. When the hardtops started production in late 1950 it was easier to deluxe trim the hardtop than to build a completely different body of the Tickford.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

No you quoted the chassis number for the production model and then a guestimate of the date based upon when the Tickford vehicle arrived in Australia and was eventually sold to a customer when you just as easily could have quoted the Tickford chassis number, which you obviously had.

The Welder series numbers were irrelevant. Your post has since been edited to include the Tickford number series otherwise I would not have posted to clear up any possible confusion this may have introduced with readers who do not have access to the intricasies of different build sequences.

What I was only attempting to establish was the latest date when vehicle Tickford 379 would have been started to be built, not the first or last serial number of any particular production change. I have not had the opportunity to look at any dated components (wheels, radiator, starter motor, generator, regulator, coil, distributor, fuel pump, carburettor and so on) to base an estimate and of course providing that they have not been changed since 1950.

Parts Catalogue TP111/G 7th Edition (the commonly available one) does not have a Tickford Station Wagon sub-section, but has a reference to the Tickford and Welder sequences with each production change that affected those types of vehicles.

The unique parts in the 1950 Tickford model at least are the cable operated wiper motor (Lucas CR4 G96) and the column operated switch (Lucas SC/14G) which controls the trafficator (home models) or direction turn indicators (export).

It was highlighted as being unusual by the original poster that 379 had the improved headlight assembly, while 384 had the headlights behind the grille. It has now been established that from 06200312 Tickfords should have the later headlights.
You can see in the photo in post #22 that 379 does not appear to have the Fishplate chassis ends but this could have been repaired or changed during its lifetime.

The chassis frame is the main building block to put the handbuilt body on. Tickfords bodies were a lot more complex to manufacture in a smaller specialist business. The reason I quoted the General Production serial numbers was an attempt to establish roughly when the last 1950 model Fishplate chassis would have been made in the calendar year.

I doubt if the chassis number was stamped when it left Tickfords - so the Tickford number really did not help to give us an idea of when the vehicle started to be put together which is all I was trying to determine. The use of the newer improved headlight / radiator support was a much easier change during assembly and recording for publication in parts books.

This is drifting off the topic and like Wayne has pointed out we would like to see some more. Over to you 123rover50!

Bob

Hello All,
A few pics of 379 when i used to own it.
Justin.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/08/1720.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/08/1719.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/08/1718.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/08/1717.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/08/1716.jpg

Further to this,the chassis on 379 was 100% original,and was not a fishplate chassis.

Justin.

Hi there all

Many thanks Diana, - and Justin for the pictures....

I think seeing one first hand will answer majority of my questions...

All the best

PS - the gentleman whom stated this hyperthetical question - does he have one or teasing us all.

Wayne