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Originally posted by Jam2
Said to have a 4 speed gear box,( I assume a misprint or did it have a non standard axle etc?) http://hymanltd.com/vehicles/5346-1929-ac-acedes-magna-tourer/
There's a few things wrong with Hyman's description:
(1) it's not a Magna - it's full title when sold would have been 16-56 6-cylinder 5-seater and built by AC (Acedes) Ltd. It may well have the 66hp engine, sometimes called the Speed Model, an option for £50 at the time, as the carbs could be original (e.g. there's no warm choke feed through the block and it has an 80mph speedo). Another £5 would have got the first owner that nice Auster rear screen this car has also.
(2) they say it has semi-elliptic springs, as per the Magna models, but clearly it has quarter-elliptic
(3) they say a four-speed gearbox. It would have a three forward plus a reverse gear (= 4? Yet their advert for the 16-70 says four speed which, of course, are forward gears)
(4) I've never heard there were Weller
brothers, that were backed by John Portwine, surely it was John Weller only?
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Originally posted by Jam2
...in the description the following, "AC employees....In an effort to convince their new owners to continue automobile production....built William Hurlock a car using spares they had on hand. He was so impressed by the quality that he changed course and agreed to resume production of AC cars." Is the inference that the Hurlocks did not know the service dept were building up a car?
A number of cars were assembled from parts, after the liquidation of AC (Acedes) Ltd, apparently to special order for customers. One was built for William Hurlock but the above story seems romanticised for the first true Hurlock car had a mated gearbox (not transaxle) and a chassis bought from Standard. Also, by then, a couple of years had passed.
