Triumph Herald 1200 Twin Carb conversion

I have recently been sent a scanned copy of  - Triumph Herald 1200 Twin Carb conversion - part 511037 fitting instructions.  Here is a paragraph from the booklet.  The booklet was originally published by Standard Triumph and was scanned by Paul Cattrell.

TWIN CARBURETTOR CONVERSION KIT
Part No. 511037
Introduction
A twin carburettor conversion kit contains all necessary components
for converting a Herald "1200" engine of, 8,0:1 compression ratio, from
the single to the twin carburettor condition.
To achieve maximum performance conducive with safe operation of the
engine, when twin carburettors are fitted, existing main bearings, valves,
valve springs, ignition distributor and camshaft must be changed.
Existing cylinder heads must be machined to raise the compression
ratio to 8,5:1. Polishing the ports is unnecessary, but if undertaken care
must be exercised not to destroy the abutment faces for the manifold
locating sleeves.

The whole document is available to view and download from my box.com account at:  https://app.box.com/s/o3hq8rip7n2eo6wh6kgb54w145s6h5s6

Jag 3.8 Vitesse

People have been tuning and modifying the Triumph Vitesse for many years. Hot Car magazine May 1969 featured a Vitesse that had a Jaguar 3.8 engine in it.

The car was said to do 130mph and to have 250bhp. It was built by the well known Downton engineering. Based on a shortened Jaguar XK150 chassis.  The Triumph Vitesse body was altered to fit.

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More material about this car featured on Facebook recently.

 

West Central Garage Ltd of Wolverhampton - Triumph Car Dealer 83A

This short post is about West Central Garage Ltd of Wolverhampton.

West Central Garage Ltd Wolverhampton Compliments Slip

West Central Garage Ltd Wolverhampton advert Autocar 18 October 1957

West Central Garage Ltd Wolverhampton dealer address stamp

Gracesguide website is a great source of information and includes these 2 sections.

West Central Garage

of School Street, Wolverhampton.
1953 Car and Light Commercial Vehicle Stockists. Directors: Norman H. Dawkins (Joint Managing). E. G. Dawes, T. L. Millard. (Service)

Thomas Millard (b.1912)

Thomas Millard (1912- ) of West Central Garage
Born Sedgley, 1912.
Apprenticed to Clyno Cars Ltd., Wolverhampton and was later in charge of service Department of local Garage.
1953 Director, West Central Garage Ltd., Wolverhampton. Joined staff of West Central Garage Ltd. as foreman and became service manager in 1946 and joined the Board of Directors in 1950. Married; one son.

Details of Triumph car dealers in Wolverhampton can be found in my blog post about Hewitts Garages Ltd of Wolverhampton.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about West Central Garage Ltd such as photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc please let me know. I can be contacted via the comments to this post or on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephen.weblin

Further information and sources

Link to the other articles in this series.

Link to blog post about Hewitts Garages Ltd of Wolverhampton

Link to face book page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr group which includes many photos of Standard Triumph garages etc from my collection and many other contributors .

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: All 3 images in this post are from my collection.

Triumph Service Training Notes - Triumph 6 Cylinder engine

Standard Triumph used to produce technical training materials for mechanics.  Like me you have probably seen and may have copies of some the Service Training Notes booklets.  I have shared several via a page on my website.

Thanks to Adrian from New Zealand who has scanned several of the film strips in his collection.

Watch the video here.