World Cup Rally 40 celebration at Gaydon

First Triumph show for me this year. A great turnout of people and cars. It was good to see a mixed field of cars. Along side the Triumphs were many other cars. I was surprised to see a rally Austin Maxi. I think the last time I saw a rally Hillman Hunter as a boy when I had a corgi model complete with Kangaroo. I would like to have found more information about this Dolomite.

wanted

During the cold and dark winter months I have been reading up on classic specialist and kits cars. This is a book I would really like to get my hands on.

Mallory Boxing day 2009

No Triumph cars at the boxing day meeting but did see this old Triumph sidercar outfit. The Mallory boxing day meeting was a welcome break from the traditional Christmas hols.

2 speed windscreen wipers

I have featured an article by Erikis Skinkis for sometime now on my website. Recently Geoff Morgan from Australia contacted me to suggest an improvement.

I am not an automotive electrician, but I have wired my own kit car completely, which includes connecting up a Lucas 2 speed wiper motor without the luxury of the original loom and switch. Some information was obtained from the net, some by bench testing for confirmation.

The diagram below shows how to wire up the 2 speed wiper motor using two single pole double throw (5 pin) automotive relays. The isolating switch used below is a simple 2 pole switch in which both output pins are live in the fast position. Relays do not have to be used, but if using a switch it is important to use the correct Lucas wiper switch (part No #35927). The Lucas motor stops in the park position very suddenly by shorting the windings to ground and if the correct switch is not used, you will blow fuses or worse.

If you are not 100% certain of the identity of the wires in the connector plug (there are various colour combinations) I strongly recommend you do a bench test.

Geoff Morgan

Here is the circuit diagram from Erikis which only has 1 relay.