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F0355
South Africa
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 Posted - 10/06/2008 : 07:55:51
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Does anyone have an answer why one often sees holes drilled in the pedals (the plate where the shoe presses against)? Sometimes more than one hole, sometimes only one. Surely they didn't leave the factory this way and was wondering what the reason was if any?
Peter Steyn
Johannesburg, RSA
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kimber
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/06/2008 : 10:51:51
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At a guess: -
One or two holes = For the attachment of wooden blocks for the vertically challenged Triple-M-iste.
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Lots of holes - for the fanatic wishing to reduce overall weight of car.
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mgptype
United Kingdom
709 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2008 : 11:24:22
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Andrew,
When you say for the vertically challenged did you mean MG Midget
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F0355
South Africa
298 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2008 : 19:57:44
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Good humour.
If only one pedal is drilled, possibly one leg longer than the other..or requiring further travel on the blocked pedal?
Peter Steyn
Johannesburg, RSA
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John Reid
United Kingdom
704 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2008 : 23:54:47
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The Musketeer driver, Archie Langley, had wooden blocks on his pedals! In the Light Car magazine of March 5 1937, The Blower borrowed Aramis for a week's road testing. His final paragraph reads:
Some lucky man is going to buy Aramis. Just one word in his ear: unless his stature be in the region of 60ins he should do something about the wood blocks fitted to the control pedals, and also about the Tom Thumb driving position generally. Back at home I have a certain boiled shirt, neatly articulated across the starched front - evidence of what happens when a bigger man than Archie Langley goes on a spree in Archie Langley's car.
In addition to the pedal blocks, the boss of his 3-spoke steering wheel was fitted with an inch spacer, and is still with the car.
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bahnisch
Australia
674 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2008 : 11:48:22
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| My M-type (found in a shed in London in the 1990's) had round rubber pads attached to the clutch and brake pedals with a single central bolt (hence holes in the centre of each of these two pedals). My shoes are size nine, and it is hard enough to operate one pedal at a time with the standard set-up, so I quickly dispensed with the pads! |
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Cathelijne
Netherlands
744 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2008 : 13:14:58
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Hi John,
Any idea who 'The Blower' was? Was it perhaps H.S. Linfield? He entered a M-type for the 1931 Gloucester Trial and a C-type for the 1932 event and he did the regular road tests, but I don't know from the top of my head if this Linfield worked for the Light Car or for one of the other magazines.
Regards,
Cathelijne Spoelstra
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