Hello everyone:
I posted recently about my Vanguard. I didn't mention that my Solex carb
is probably Whitworth as are the SU parts on my other LBCs.
You mentioned Aston Martin as probably using Whitworth. Most LBCs prior to
the sixties used Whitworth fasteners - except Standard-Triumph. My '57
Lagonda is all Whitworth. My Austin A40 was and I suspect my Jaguar is but
I haven't looked recently.
John McEwen
>In a message dated 98-01-07 14:57:09 EST, jimbpps@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>> What you say sounds correct. However, many if not all of the SU
>> carbuerators and the fuel line fittings of the British cars I have
>> worked on, do use Whitworth fasteners!!!!
>>
>
>Jim, OK, I said that I was waiting for corrections etc. Yours is the first.
>
>Your first comment makes sense because SU's were an older design (pre-50's at
>least) and their carbs were purchased in the '50's and 60's by Standard
>Triumph for use on TR cars. As I said the Brits moved away from the Whitworth
>standard in 1944 but any tooling etc. which existed at that time would have
>been used until it wore out.
>
>Your second comment about fuel lines also fits into the category of "use of
>manufacturing tools until the tools wear out."
>
>Thanks for both your comments. However, my opinion remains that you will find
>few Whitworth nuts, bolts or screws on TR's and the later the TR model the
>less. Your later comment "Anyone planning to work on their SU's, especially
>those with the threaded fastners on the fuel lines (as opposed to the press
>fit rubber
>fuel lines as used in the 1959 and later TRs), should have at least ..." gives
>credence to this idea. Some companies continued to use Whitworth stuff well
>into the late '60's, I think Aston Martin was one, but Triumph did not.
>Cheers.
>
>Art Kelly
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