9 hp Bodywork
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:08 am
I'm making slow but steady progress with my 1934 9hp Le Mans restoration (photos attached). I live in southern Spain so contact with other Singer owners is mainly limited to this forum and the SOC magazine.
I have so far more or less completed the chassis and mechanics and I’m now struggling with the bodywork.
A lot of the timber frame was rotten, missing or had been badly repaired but there was enough of the original for me to make inspired attempts at making most of the replacement parts. On the upper part of the scuttle there is a horizontal easily removable plywood trapezoidal shaped panel (fitted with tool clips), and another trapezoidal panel abutting it at the rear. I know that the large trapezoidal panel was covered in aluminium sheet but was the rear panel also aluminium covered and if so, did the aluminium cladding extend under the semi-elliptical bulkhead (the one with the bracket for the bonnet support channel)? And was this bulkhead also aluminium covered. The illustration in the manufacturer’s manual of the engine compartment of the 1.5 litre appears to show this bulkhead covered with aluminium, but I suspect this was not the case with the 9 hp.
Any help greatly appreciated.
David Bayliss
I have so far more or less completed the chassis and mechanics and I’m now struggling with the bodywork.
A lot of the timber frame was rotten, missing or had been badly repaired but there was enough of the original for me to make inspired attempts at making most of the replacement parts. On the upper part of the scuttle there is a horizontal easily removable plywood trapezoidal shaped panel (fitted with tool clips), and another trapezoidal panel abutting it at the rear. I know that the large trapezoidal panel was covered in aluminium sheet but was the rear panel also aluminium covered and if so, did the aluminium cladding extend under the semi-elliptical bulkhead (the one with the bracket for the bonnet support channel)? And was this bulkhead also aluminium covered. The illustration in the manufacturer’s manual of the engine compartment of the 1.5 litre appears to show this bulkhead covered with aluminium, but I suspect this was not the case with the 9 hp.
Any help greatly appreciated.
David Bayliss