For now, I lumped all the pre-war cars together, I would LOVE for there to be enough demand to split it into groups (hint...hint, post here about your pre-war Singer)
For future reference on this topic, I came across this photo from Popular Motoring, the Singer in-house magazine.
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It's the Lockheed tank used on the 1938 Singer Twelve and it has the 'two sided' transfers that we've seen on the MG SA versions sold elsewhere.
The cap is what I call the 'early hex style' but now must assume was just another variation along with the 'smooth top' (much like the Girling cap) throughout production since my '36 LM also has one. It looks to be zinc plated, or possibly painted silver as well. I've seen some in photos painted black and others silver. My '34 Sports has the original tank but it has the 'smooth' top.
Interesting that the bracket covers the transfers, but I guess Singer bought them 'as supplied' with the transfers on then and then just fitted as and where they needed to...
Your Friendly Canadian Pre-War Singer Specialist, Collector & Historian, Editor & Pre-War Registrar & Canadian Contact -NASOC
Singer Enthusiast for over 40 Years.
'28 Senior, '33 & '34 Sports, '36 Le Mans SS & Bantam
A cautionary tale involving the application of David Swann's excellent Lockheed transfer. Having successfully applied it to my reservoir tank and after allowing it to dry thoroughly I applied a coat of acrylic lacquer described on the can as 'suitable for over-coating water and solvent based coats', which sounded safe enough. To my horror the transfer immediately started to craze over. Fortunately, when dry, the surface had developed a very fine craquelure finish which I can live with - in fact if anything it has perhaps given it a more period character.
Foolishly I had not tested the lacquer on the practice piece of transfer which David had thoughtfully provided.
Sorry to hear that David and thanks for sharing. Can you advise me and others of the Brand you used as one to be wary of? For information, I used Klear with the lightest of application, and with no issues but appreciate certain brands can be problematical to obtain.
The lacquer to avoid is 'Promatic Clear Lacquer' marketed by Capella in the UK. I should add that this product worked perfectly well when I used it for its primary purpose - lacquering car base-coat paint.
