Spridget half shafts

[Jentw...@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/14/2008 4:22:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nor...@googlegroups.com writes:

ps all half shafts are for "steel wheels", Midgets and Sprites all use wire
wheel bolt on adaptors.

Victor, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on this one.  As the former owner of a series of four Spridgets, 948, 1100, and 1275 cc models, two with wires and two with disks, and having blown out and replaced half shafts on each, the wire wheels use a different half shaft with an adaptor pressed on to a splined end while the disks use a half shaft with a flange on the end.

 

You can see the difference here:

 

http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=29295

 

Regards,

John

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[Stewart Smith]

 

The club elevens as well as the series 1 sevens used what we call a Nash Metropolitan rear end....actually off some sort of lorry. These axles came with larger drum brakes than the sprites. Lotus used a steel wheel rear end and adapters and actually welded the adapters on to the drums (warpage factor not as bad as I would have thought). I can send photos of the bodge if you are interested.

 

Stewart

[Charles Helps]

Not really a lorry, Stewart, here's a link to a photo:
http://www.seriouswheels.com/1950-1959/1957-Nash-Metropolitan-Turquoise.htm
unless you think. like Ettore Bugatti, that the vintage Bentley was a
lorry!

[Stewart Smith]

 

The Metropolitan Story, I think by Foster? mentions Austin commercial vans as the axle source. Perhaps not a lorry, but a van and the larger brakes to stop it. The Jimmy and Eve Valentine's Metropolitan Pit Stop in Hollywood, California have the same source. Interesting museum for Metropolitans...elevens should be so lucky. Maybe bad information, made sense though.

 

Stewart