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no movement of the winder or window, stuck fast. All a bit strange, will get in with a mirror to try to see whats happened! mike

yes panel off and had a look but cant see anything obvious thats causing it to jam, but will get in with a mirror tomorrow to have a closer look.

On my 13/60 convertible the near side window is stuck in the up position. tried moving the glass but it is very tight and the winder mechanism is stuck solid. Cant see what's causing the problem and not sure I can get the mechanism out without lowering the window. Any suggestions what's jamming it? cheers mike

was interested in the pub campsite but when I checked it looks like they have closed the campsite for 2023.

I am sure that was for sale somewhere (FB marketplace?) earlier in the year.

Certainly "non Member" has given lots of very useful contributions to the forum, he has a long history of Triumphs, and I am sure the other have as well, and helped a lot of people out so I dont see then taking advantage or being free loaders just being helpful. If this is the new attitude of the forum it will time to go elsewhere... I accept that its good to have a closed section of the forum but we should keep the rest of it as open as possible. mike

All done and have a nice new MOT. The outriggers were replaced in 2006 and were only welded on the sides and bottom, this seems strong enough as they did last 17 years..... The new outriggers have been welded in the same way, the old one were very bad, much more rust that it seemed from the outside. These had been filled with Waxoyl in 2006 and supposedly rust proofed again in 2013 when the whole car was 'rust proofed' after a body rebuild. Difficult to find classic companies around Cambridge who could or wanted to do the work. I had quotes of up to £2500 and not being able to do it for 6 to 8 weeks! Eventually found a guy in Barrington who did it for me. Pleased with his work and will probably get him to do some work on the body at the end of the season. cheers Mike

thanks very helpful mike

I am sure I have seen a Triumph bulletin (or section in a manual) that described how to replace the rear outriggers without removing the body. Or maybe I imagined/dreamt it! I know it can be done, in fact I had mine on my Herald 13/60 done in 2006, but they have only lasted 17 years and need doing again... I am just interested to see what triumph recommended. cheers Mike

i have one very similar, excellent for doing electronics. available in the UK, but out of stock, here WOWSTICK 1F+ Precision Electric Screwdriver Set (pimoroni.com) mike

usually 8 ~ 8:30pm The Plough, Green End, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8SX If you havent been there before worth a look at Google maps as you have to drive thru the village past the church right to the end of the road to get to the pub. You should find one or two Triumphs in the Car park. cheers Mike

there is a TSSC/CT meet at the Plough, Fen Ditton on Monday night if you wanted to bring it along. Should be a few people there who could lend a ear or two. Not too far from Huntingdon. mike

very early Herald coupe has turned up on Face book. Not sure if its been mentioned on here but here is a copy of some of the detals "Meet John and his rather special 1959 Triumph Herald coupé. With the official launch of the Triumph Herald to the general public on 22nd April 1959, a few select main dealers held evening ‘pre-launches’ on the 21st for invited guests, VIP’s and the local press. Directors from a well-known London Stock Exchange business were keen to see the new car and promptly placed an order, with the buyer a WW2 RAF Pilot now Stock Broker, with a home address of Sloane Square, Chelsea, London. A Monaco Blue and Sebring White Triumph Herald coupé was ordered making it one of the very first Herald’s purchased, and would have been seen later in some of the most fashionable districts of swinging sixties London. Home Sales Director, F E Higham assured dealers that “the new Triumph Herald would be in the showrooms and available for sale by May 13th.” Straight away Standard Triumph had a problem: There were simply no stocks of cars to supply the anticipated early demand. Let’s put some accurate figures in. By the time the car was delivered there were just 460 coupés in existence, of which, most were needed to sell the Herald and were in showrooms throughout the UK. A few were being readied for rallies and even one was chopped in half ready for the Earls Court show in the Autumn. Another handful were press cars, including several for Earls Court again, and those for shows overseas in Belgium, Portugal, Canada, France and Germany. Focus was now directed on production of the Herald Saloon, with just 16 coupés being built in the whole of May. Clearly some strings were pulled for this important client with even Standard Triumph Company directors such as Alick Dick and Kenneth Aspland having to wait for May builds for their coupés and even the great Stirling Moss couldn’t get his May build car until 2nd June! So with the car delivered to the Stock Broker on May 14th, it would have been one of the first privately owned coupés registered and on the road. The company Director sold the coupé to a young up and coming employee, John in 1963. John can be seen in the period photo with his coupé on the Isle of Wight in the mid-sixties. *** Remarkably, the car still exists today. The car was parked in John’s garage in London, in 1984 and has been there ever since. John said he would never sell his beloved Triumph Herald coupé and, true to his word, he never did. John passed away on Christmas Eve, 2022. Advertised as probate the car was filthy in a rather cramped, dilapidated garage with a roof but open to the elements, with the remains of a wooden garage door. Despite the exposed position, albeit hidden via a small service road, the car remained secure, intact and has survived the long slumber amazingly well. Upon first inspection, the car could be seen with four flat tyres and a smashed front windscreen (thanks to a pushbike falling from the ceiling). All four wheels hubs were stuck but the car moved very freely with the brakes removed and new tyres and wheels. Out in the open the car could be seen better. The car is incredibly original to pre-production spec - all original panels, including a boot-lid that was produced before the final pressings were complete. Original bonnet, valances, the front grill with the clever electrical plug-socket junction, original (no engine side valances) configuration. Everything just covered in muck. The fibreboard dash, with the early switch layout, is immaculate with the original pre-production plastic-effect finish rather than the painted portafleck introduced around May 59, perhaps offering some sort of water resistance? The steering wheel retains the early silver ‘flashes.’ The quarterlights have the funny little rain channels only found on the very earliest of cars, the interior (Phantom Grey) has the vinyl door pull, there is even a good covering of the original carpet! The car has covered just 34,614 miles. One of nine coupés built on 24th March (the other eight were all Lichfield Green), it becomes the third oldest surviving Triumph Herald coupé behind Y8 (the cutaway Coffee coupé at the Coventry Transport Museum) and Y128. There are a couple of surviving coupés numbered in between but our www.triumph-herald.com records show as the very first CKD they were simply assigned numbers but did not actually exist at the time. This car was the c400th built with the body and engine numbers supporting this figure. Just to show how early the car is, one of the Albert Hall launch cars on 2nd April was just two away on the production line to this one - so they would have almost certainly been alongside each other! The engine dynamo, painted in the distinctive early car gold, is dated 2nd February 1959! The keys are the original configuration; one key for the ignition, glovebox and boot and another for both doors. Original numberplate. Chassis, floors - including the front footwells - and ‘normal’ corrosion places are superb. Amazingly, hidden away in the boot was all the original paperwork, including the launch literature, colour swatches, accessories and letter from the Berkeley Square main dealer. This has survived in pristine condition. The handbook is the undated - pre-launch first edition - and is in perfect condition. There were a whole host of remarkable finds hidden in the car. Inside the glovebox were John’s Cool-Ray designer sunglasses (as worn by Sean Connery, as James Bond in the 1965 film Thunderball!), AA and RAC handbooks to match the badges still on the front of the car, ferry sailing times for the Isle of Wight as John also had a home there, guides to the best real ale pubs and even his darts! A car radiator mascot featuring a de Havilland Vampire, one of the RAF’s first jet fighters, was also found, possibly belonging to the WW2 pilot, who was flying from (at least) 1940. There are a couple of mods - a period Motorola radio, some auxiliary switches (thankfully not in the dashboard) and dials and a trio of menacing-looking air-horns lurking under the bonnet albeit with the original horns still hooked up! The original front seats have been replaced with later versions in red - with one seat found at the back of the garage - so if you know of a good Phantom Grey 948 seat please let me know! The infamous original gear knob had been replaced with the later-type round black ball - but the knob itself was found with several new and used spares within the car. And today? It’s John’s funeral this morning, where he will be laid to rest alongside his parents. John never married or had children. He has left a remarkable piece of Triumph history and later today we’ll raise a glass for him and show his car to you all in due course." after being cleaned #The car is incredibly well preserved. Here is a taster with an image as found and a couple simply cleaned up with the years of dirt and grime removed. We were able to show John’s family his car on the day of his funeral, how we think John would have liked it to look. It proved to be a popular talking point.I’ll add an album of photos showing all the little nuances of this car, as a great reference point, as so many of the original details remain exactly as they would have been in March 1959!*If you missed it see here:https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2747733788695436&set=a.101252966676878

it would be nice to have one to fit all the locks! mike

no the rather nasty original exhaust was still there! The triple carb was neat... Didnt go today but went to the last one and saw the Ford. mike

Nice. I did look at them but it will not fit a Herald fibreglass hardtop, its too long. I just could not find a folding roof that would fit. There is a company in the States that makes short folding roof for truck cabs, but very expensive to buy and ship over. Have fun cutting the roof! Are there beams going across the roof? cheers mike

yes Honeybourne!

I have a Honeybourne fibreglass hardtop for my Herald. I want/need to take the hood and frame off the car so decided to fit a sliding sunroof to the hardtop so I can enjoy the summer days. Difficult trying to find one that fits the hardtop as its so small. In the end I brought a cheap glass sliding tilting sunroof from a LandRover DIscovery 2 off EBay. these are very popular for campervan conversions... It is almost a perfect fit for the shame of the herald hardtop. After many measurements (measure twice, cut once...) and templates, tests in hardboard I finally cut a hole in the roof and after a bit of filling the roof fits perfectly. So I now have a tilting sliding sunroof. It has made the roof heavier but has stiffened it up. Need to repaint the roof and seal the top down using Tigerseal as Landrover did. The hardtop is only fixed down with a couple of J bolts that go onto the frame in the hood well. I have made some fixings to hold it at the front but it would be nice to use the original hood clamps to fix tot he windscreen rail. Just need to work out how to mount them onto the roof... Mike

I think the thread is rolled rather than cut and I assume (probably wrongly) that's the reason for the slightly strange thread form. I think it means the thread is stronger than a normal cut thread. mike

Nice Spitfire! mike

That TR5 has been completely rebuilt, chassis up, by the owner. It is fighting back with lots of new parts failing. Yesterday was one of its first runs since back on the road. It was running beautifully..... Mike

The dolly, dark blue TR5 and Red herald convertible were all from the Cambridge area plus the TSSC chairman in a red VW Polo! Not sure if any of our cars have TSSC, CT stickers. A couple of the TR6 guys had done the RBRR so guess are CT members. Good fun morning with some interesting cars, nice to see a mix range of classics. Bacon bap was excellent. Would certainly go again. The Red 13/60 is mine, 1500 EFI (MS3 ECU), mapped ignition, OD, gearbox with GT6 ratios, 3.89 diff. Have owned it for ~15 years. Mike

I have never seen a Metal one before! mike

my door plates have arrived from Ebay. Not too badly worn, better than any of my spares and both have the slider plate at the bottom Unusually the sliders are metal (possibly brass) rather than plastic and look original complete with the springs, both are seized but can be freed off. The plate are fitted to a bit of fibre glass panel so no idea what car they came from! mike

Anyone have an answer to what happened to Triumph drawings? Mike