Show whole topic Mar 22, 2011 6:59 pm
h14 Offline
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Registered since: Nov 30, 2008
Location: Chalandray, France


Subject: Re: vacuum advance, windscreen washer button, brake servo
Hi Peter,
In the absence of any other replies, the only help I can offer is that the windscreen wash system was likely to have been made by Trico. Their washer systems appear to have been popular fitments in the 1950s. My 1951 Riley had such a system at one time...like yours abandoned in later life, only mine was replaced by a rubber push-bulb affair & plastic bag type reservoir...which I recognised as being from a Fiat 500! At least your alteration sounds more up-market! The Trico reservoir was a large round glass jar (like a huge jam jar) containing the pick-up & a copper unit which presumably converted the vacuum into pressure to expel the water. Sorry I haven't a clue as to how the system worked. I have seen them on ebay so if you want to revert the system, it shouldn't be too difficult. You might still have the retaining bracket for the jar, perhaps bolted on the inner wing in the under bonnet area.

Laurence