Reply With QuoteWhat two English vehicles of the late 1930s, each one of the most popular of their type (but very different to each other), used engines with metric threads, despite these engines being built in England by the manufacturer?
John
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Manufactured by Mercedes-Benz used a proprietary motor and what motor was it?
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RoverLord
What two English vehicles of the late 1930s, each one of the most popular of their type (but very different to each other), used engines with metric threads, despite these engines being built in England by the manufacturer?
John
John
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1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
ChatterBox
This one ??Originally Posted by V8Ian
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The one I had in mind was a bit more mundane Jerry.This one ??
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Would I be correct in thinking they were of French or German origin and one is a motorcycle, John?
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Ian
Are you thinking of the 1.5 litre motor in the A class merc??
RoverLord
Neither was a motor cycle, and while both engines have French ancestry, one only obliquely, both engines were designed by and built in England by the company who built the vehicle. (Strictly one was an associated company building the engine, but same English owner) Both vehicle designs were purely English, although one was built in significant numbers (a slightly later model) in several other countries including Australia, as were the engines.
John
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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That wasn't the one I was thinking but I'm in no position to dispute your claim.
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ChatterBox
I thought originally the Austin 7 but possibly too early, However British Morris and MG engines from 1923 to 1955 were built using metric threads but with bolt heads and nuts dimensioned for Whitworth spanners and sockets.[6] The background for this was that the engines were produced using machine tools of a previously French-owned company that was set up for metric production; for the average British motorist to be able to service his car, the bolt heads had to fit imperial-sized spanners.
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RoverLord
Got one of them. Morris was buying engines from Continental in the USA from 1913 to 1919, but import restrictions meant this was no longer feasible, besides which, Continental stopped making that model. Morris tried to go back to their previous supplier, White and Poppe, but they had just been bought by Dennis.I thought originally the Austin 7 but possibly too early, However British Morris and MG engines from 1923 to 1955 were built using metric threads but with bolt heads and nuts dimensioned for Whitworth spanners and sockets.[6] The background for this was that the engines were produced using machine tools of a previously French-owned company that was set up for metric production; for the average British motorist to be able to service his car, the bolt heads had to fit imperial-sized spanners.
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Meanwhile, in 1914 Hotchkiss had hastily moved a factory from eastern France to Coventry, but the demand for machine guns had dropped abruptly in 1918. Hotchkiss produced an engine for Morris bearing a suspicious similarity to the Continental engine, except, since their machinery was all metric, so were all the threads. By the mid twenties, with Morris virtually their only customer, Morris bought the UK branch of the company.
One down - what was the other one?
John
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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