CD Video
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:07 am
Hi,
I just watched the excellent video on YouTube showing the prototype CD climbing and descending mountain passes that Tony Fearn posted a while back on the thread for the Rally in Switzerland in September this year. Doesn't she look sweet! I liked the roof ventilator that looks just like those on the later Austin A35 vans?
It reminds me that I saw, many years ago now, what looked very like this CD tucked away in a storage shed associated with Coventry Motor Museum. Malcolm Oliver kindly let me take photos and although I was there to research the development Javelin engine used by Ferguson, I took the opportunity to see this vehicle as Malcolm knew I was interested. Does anyone know what happened to this vehicle? Probably someone will say that it is now on display in the Museum, so I am very ready to stand corrected, as it was many years ago!
Some time later I had the opportunity to acquire a modified Javelin set of blocks that had probably been produced by the factory for Ferguson, as the serial number starts FER2! Looking externally standard, they are Series 3 but with a separate rear oil seal for the crankshaft. Internally, there may be other differences, but I haven't investigated since storing them away.
I find the development work done for Ferguson by the factory fascinating and I hope the specially modified Javelin engine ( incorporating twin OHC camshafts, very like on the Alfasud engine ) is still on display in the Museum? Has there ever been a definitive article on the Ferguson development work published in the Jowetteer?
All the best,
David
I just watched the excellent video on YouTube showing the prototype CD climbing and descending mountain passes that Tony Fearn posted a while back on the thread for the Rally in Switzerland in September this year. Doesn't she look sweet! I liked the roof ventilator that looks just like those on the later Austin A35 vans?
It reminds me that I saw, many years ago now, what looked very like this CD tucked away in a storage shed associated with Coventry Motor Museum. Malcolm Oliver kindly let me take photos and although I was there to research the development Javelin engine used by Ferguson, I took the opportunity to see this vehicle as Malcolm knew I was interested. Does anyone know what happened to this vehicle? Probably someone will say that it is now on display in the Museum, so I am very ready to stand corrected, as it was many years ago!
Some time later I had the opportunity to acquire a modified Javelin set of blocks that had probably been produced by the factory for Ferguson, as the serial number starts FER2! Looking externally standard, they are Series 3 but with a separate rear oil seal for the crankshaft. Internally, there may be other differences, but I haven't investigated since storing them away.
I find the development work done for Ferguson by the factory fascinating and I hope the specially modified Javelin engine ( incorporating twin OHC camshafts, very like on the Alfasud engine ) is still on display in the Museum? Has there ever been a definitive article on the Ferguson development work published in the Jowetteer?
All the best,
David