My next project "La Petite Chanteuse"

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I suspect that very few of the people looking at this have even the slightest ideal of what a Singer Junior is.

The chassis frame(as above)is exactly 10'3" long, I can pick up the bare frame by one side rail and carry it single handed.

The engine is 848cc (52 cubic inches) 4 cylinder, overhead cam. The Junior was current between 1927 and 1932. After Austin and Morris, Singer were the 3rd best selling car in the UK. 

B.j

8-18-2013

Today being Sunday, the day of rest, I have just done a few little jobs. First I hosed the worst of the grott off the front axle assembly with a high pressure washer. I have done some more cleaning up on the hand brake lever. I still have to decide whether to nickel plate this or paint it with "Chinese Chrome" (silver paint) as it will be on the outside of the body on the drivers side. Just like 3 & 4 1/2 Litre Bentleys. I have mounted the hand brake cross shaft. See Chassis drawing above or the photograph on #1. Finally I dismantled, wire brushed and painted the front springs. 

Time to wash-up and change out of my "garage clothes".

Bj

8-20-2013

Tuesday morning (in Australia) and after a chilly (3 degree C) start it was time to make another trip to my friend Peter Lester's to collect some more Singer components. This time the Peugeot's luggage trunk was filled with no less that five wheels, a rear axle assembly and another front axle. This one to be the source of a much needed brake backing plate. That and a little container holding 16 brass wheel nuts, eight Right hand thread, eight Left hand thread and four of the little nickel plated screw on caps that retain the grease in the front wheel bearings and cover the rear hub retaining nuts. Looks as though another visit to my friends at Blast-off will be required some time soon.Before that I have to work out how to remove the four wheel studs that some clever person has welded into the wheel centre. That is without damaging the wheel. Hopefully I will be getting some badly needed space soon but I have been caught out counting chickens before, so we will just have to learn to be patient.

The real find today was the "saddle" i.e. the bottom half of the housing that clamps the steering box to the tubular cross member. Thank you Peter.

Bj.