Full Version: The column gear change - what happened to it?
. . . or maybe a left-hand drive two seater, can't tell. But a Wilson looks okay to me.
QUOTE (bradbury west @ Nov 9 2009, 16:01) 
the R1 cockpit at the 2008 Revival, the car retained its column change. Roger Lund
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Originally posted by Terry Walker
There's a red monoposto with an MG badge on the steering wheel, so naturally . . .
There's a red monoposto with an MG badge on the steering wheel, so naturally . . .
Yes, naturally...
But if you've never seen the Bucknell MG R-type then you can well be excused.
My 1957 Morris Isis Series II (left) and 1956/7 Wolseley 6/90 Series II were the first of their respective types to change from column-change to the floor. As I understand it the reason for positioning the lever on the right was to preserve the bench seat arrangement - even though the Wols actually has two seats.
Apparently this new arrangement on the 6/90 wasn't too popular with plod as officers in a hurry would regularly complain about getting their trouser legs caught...
In both cases the replacement models switched to centrally-mounted floor-change.
QUOTE (Ray Bell @ Nov 13 2009, 10:39)
There is no MG Special there, Terry...
No 3 is a '55 or '56 Plymouth ute... well done Wagons. There is an FJ Holden one there, but it's not a 'humpy' at all... come on Lee, identify them, don't just list what there is! Oh, yeah, no A90s, no Mk 1 Zephyrs. And what's a 'fishshop' Falcon?
No 3 is a '55 or '56 Plymouth ute... well done Wagons. There is an FJ Holden one there, but it's not a 'humpy' at all... come on Lee, identify them, don't just list what there is! Oh, yeah, no A90s, no Mk 1 Zephyrs. And what's a 'fishshop' Falcon?
Pre XR, you must have lead a sheltered life!
QUOTE (Twin Window @ Nov 13 2009, 11:39)
My 1957 Morris Isis Series II (left) and 1956/7 Wolseley 6/90 Series II were the first of their respective types to change from column-change to the floor. As I understand it the reason for positioning the lever on the right was to preserve the bench seat arrangement - even though the Wols actually has two seats.
Apparently this new arrangement on the 6/90 wasn't too popular with plod as officers in a hurry would regularly complain about getting their trouser legs caught...
In both cases the replacement models switched to centrally-mounted floor-change.
I may be wrong but I have never seen an Oz Isis with that type of shift, maybe we never got that model here. Feel free to correct me people. I had more to do with A90s and even then not much.
I never saw one either, though I wasn't actually looking...
The Isis was a rapid ruster in our climate and most were well and truly gone before I got into looking at that type of car. But I suspect that we only ever got the 'austerity' options, which would have meant gearchange components that interchanged with the Oxford etc. I did see right hand change 6/90s, but they were very rare too, and an expensive car here. Did the Pathfinder or Riley Two Point Six have them?
Twinny, you didn't identify one in my pile up there you should have!
The Isis was a rapid ruster in our climate and most were well and truly gone before I got into looking at that type of car. But I suspect that we only ever got the 'austerity' options, which would have meant gearchange components that interchanged with the Oxford etc. I did see right hand change 6/90s, but they were very rare too, and an expensive car here. Did the Pathfinder or Riley Two Point Six have them?
Twinny, you didn't identify one in my pile up there you should have!
Wolseley 4/44? Doesn't seem quite right, though. I thought Rover but that doesn't seem quite right either. Jeez, not a Princess R???
None of the above, Terry...
But if you keep guessing along those BMC lines you'll get there!
But if you keep guessing along those BMC lines you'll get there!
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