What are the dimensions of a Bradford.

[rob needs]

Just wanted to know if it would clear the average up and over garage door.

[george garside]

[quote="rob needs"]Just wanted to know if it would clear the average up and over garage door.[/quote]

standard factory built van & utility 5ft 9in high. however as far as gargage door clearence will need to be some leaway particularly if there is even a very a slight step up onto concrete garage base as van will tilt & thus become temporarily higher when in prcess of entering/ leaving. I once had a garage door that was so 'just about' that the Bradford could only get through the doorway with a passenger sat right at the back! If clearaance tight the van will also be slightly higher if on anything larger than 500x 16 tyres
george

[rob needs]

Cheers George,

I thouight for one moment there you were going to say let the tyres down.

[Forumadmin]

Take the wheels off and drive in on the drums!

[george garside]

[quote="Forumadmin"]Take the wheels off and drive in on the drums![/quote]

perhaps not totally daft! some 'pop top' caravans such as eriba, rapido etc can be fitted with lttle solid wheels to lower the hight even furthur to enable them to fit in a domestic garage. - perhaps a bradford set could be machined out of old flyweels.

[TedAllen]

My neighbour bought a 1926 Willys Overland Crossley lorry and the only way it would go in the garage was to remove the tyres and run in on the rims...bit tedious everytime he popped out for a paper but it worked !
Seriously though, it was under long term restoration but it enabled him to work on the body outdoors when it wasn't raining. We ended up dismantling the garage (sectional) and rebuilding it on a 1 foot plinth of bricks.
Ted

[PAUL BEAUMONT]

Ted, that would seem to leave a minor problem with the door!
In certain parts of the country this could solve the wheel removal problem as you are likely to return to find them missing!!

[TedAllen]

Hi Paul
No problem, It was a wooden up and over door. He just screwed another foot on the bottom.
The garage still stands although he has long since moved to Goa.
This brought another 'funny' to mind.
John had a wedding car business. One of the cars was a Silver Shadow. It was the full length of the garage so he built shelves at the back so the boot would just go under the bottom one and touch the wall.
Great, until one day he had a flat battery. The Roller had an electric lock on the transmission and, the battery being in the boot....well, you see his problem ! A morning removing his shelves to get the lid up with access from only one side of the car did not improve his day.
Ted

[Keith Andrews]

Either take the rims off and a trolley jack under ech axle and roll in
or
One can now buy a set of light weight wheel rollers...they are bigger versions of the rollers movers use for fridges...common in panel shops for moving cars around without rims on.

or since doing a restore, consider rodding the body and do a roof chop, before putting into the workshop.

[Dave Frost]

I once had a caravan converted to carry motorcycles, ie with a back door added. I needed to put it away for the winter and my mums garage was available but it wouldn't go under the up and over door. I removed the roof ventilators, jacked it up, removed the wheels and replced these with some car rims with same stud centres that I cut down to just bigger than brake drum size with my oxy acetylene torch. I also removed the suspension dampers. With all that it still didn't go under the door so I made the door and also the panel above QD and it went in fine. There is a moral to this - answers on a postcard - but maybe there is something that can be recycled. I think the cut down wheel rims could be a goer at some time in the future, at least you can roll it and also take the weight off those valuable tyres for the off season. Cheers, Dave