Thread: 2a grill ?

G'day JackM

That grille you have fitted to your 2a is the one fitted to the late 2a 6cylinder vehicle, it might have been fitted to you vehicle while it was still in service, as the original 4 cyl grille might well have been NLA and a 6 cyl one was fitted, the grille that yours should have is that tpye fitted to WileE's vehicle, flat square mesh type is the 4 cyl one and the horizontal round bar is the 6cyl. both of these are now getting quite rare to find as the vehicles were only in production for a short time in comparison to the production of post 1951 Series1/2/2a with lights in grille panel.


cheers

Originally Posted by JackM

My 4 cylinder S2A wears this type. I assume it is original.




Jack

Probably should give it away as a passing curiosity gone astray, but Uncle Ho has re-confirmed (I think, if I read it right) that the grille on my Dad's old 2A `wide-light' was only fitted to the 6 cylinders - suggested also earlier by a couple of others (Lotz-a-Landies?).

Happy to concede that part of that is correct from my viewpoint - my Dad's truck was an original LR six and still has its' original grille as described (same also as the photo submitted by JackM). This is basically the same pattern as that which was fitted to my old 69 2A SWB 4 cylinder (other than not having an indented section to allow for the narrower headlight alignment).

Problem remains for me is that both Wozapinin and JackM have also posted photos of what I understand to be 4 cylinder 2As with the same grille as my Dad's, but without the 6 cylinder badge. This is definitely a different pattern to the one that is in the photo that Shonky posted way back when this started. I note that JackM's truck appears to be a military restoration which might mean something, and Wozapinin did not specifically mention if his vehicle was 4 cylinder model.

Whatever, my best conclusion from all of this is that the 4 cylinder 2A `wide-light' models that were assembled and sold in Australia `may or may not' have had the same grille as the 6 cylinder 2As also assembled and sold in Australia.

Good luck to whoever asked the question in the first place.

Cheers,

Cheers,

Originally Posted by grill

i wonder what is the original colour of the grill, because i saw some reference here..there are various colour..what is the original?
its that an olympic tires that you use?
anyway, do you have the size or dimension specification for the yellow plate there? in my country (indonesia), i've never seen people using that plate..and im planning to build myself..so if you had the dimension or the size, it will be very usefull to me..

thanks mate'...

Hi Grill,

Don't know the original colour of the grill - it's green now !

The vehicle is wearing Olympic Steel Treks, which were/are standard military issue for later model Australian Army Landrovers.

The Bridge Classification Sign (ie the yellow plate) was used by allied military vehicles to determine if a vehicle of a certain loading could traverse a bridge (given the bridge's capacity). Both vehicle and bridge wore a number and if your vehicle's number was equal to or less than the bridge's, you could safely cross. Not used a lot after WW2.

The plate is 225mm (9 inches) wide with an 18mm (.75 inch) rim.

Good luck with your restoration. Done a bit of travelling in your country (Java, Lombok, Ambon etc) and always enjoyed the hospitality.



Jack