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6th April 2021, 07:50 | #1 |
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A Rover tyre tester: date?
And the little goodie of the month: a Rover tyre tester with dual graduation (KGS / LBS).
But I bet it's older than the 75/ZT, possibly made earlier for SD1, P6, P5? Has anybody any clue? I must add that it doesn't look working: every tyre I can test, it reaches the max at once! Just as a souvenir...
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I can well imagine that it was from the tool tray in a P4.
I have two or three of this type of gauge, and think that one of them is engraved Dunlop. Mike Yes, I've just googled P4 tool kit photos, and it is in them. Could of course also be older.
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Is it this one?
The tyre tester looks the one at the bottom, but not exactly the same as mine, as far as I can see... At the second sight, it looks like a kind of cap is missing at the right end of mine, which could explain why it goes at once at the max, the weight of that cap may just equilibrate and play as a counter-weight. N.B. Sorry for the width of the page but I can't manage...
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Yes, that looks like one of the photos that I found.
The missing part is almost certainly a valve key, for replacing a faulty tyre valve (not uncommon, in those days) There was a fibre type washer at the inner end of the valve. A spring loaded brass tube was meant to push against it, but after time it left a groove in the washer - and leaked air pressure. Mike
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6th April 2021, 13:42 | #5 |
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Looks And sounds like the one I have from my grandfathers old Morris TenFour 1930s era. Mine still works and still has the little valve key with it.My grandfather wanted me to have the car to stop me having a motor bike, but I turned it down. It was the motor bike for me. The person he sold it to shortly after only had it a couple of weeks and crashed it, a complete wreck. Often think I could have saved it if I had accepted it from my grandfather. That’s life.
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P4's 5's & 6's all came with these in the tool kit.
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6th April 2021, 19:01 | #7 |
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I think it is from a P4, as the Rover Viking logo is like the ones used on these cars.
The P5 and certainly the P6 were quite different. Here is a P4 hubcap badge that has a similar logo:- But, I might be wrong! .
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Many thanks to you all for those very learned pieces of information.
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The tyre gauge was standard in the tool kits of all Rover products including Land Rovers in the 1960's & early 1970's .
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The cap at the end unscrews and has the valve remover on it.--There are no counter weights and nor are they needed. It's just the air pressure that moves the sliding section.---The tiny hole at the business end is calibrated to let a certain amount of air flow through the gauge.--- Last edited by COLVERT; 9th April 2021 at 22:57.. |
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