CD Video

[David Morris]

Hi,

I just watched the excellent video on YouTube showing the prototype CD climbing and descending mountain passes that Tony Fearn posted a while back on the thread for the Rally in Switzerland in September this year. Doesn't she look sweet! I liked the roof ventilator that looks just like those on the later Austin A35 vans?

It reminds me that I saw, many years ago now, what looked very like this CD tucked away in a storage shed associated with Coventry Motor Museum. Malcolm Oliver kindly let me take photos and although I was there to research the development Javelin engine used by Ferguson, I took the opportunity to see this vehicle as Malcolm knew I was interested. Does anyone know what happened to this vehicle? Probably someone will say that it is now on display in the Museum, so I am very ready to stand corrected, as it was many years ago!

Some time later I had the opportunity to acquire a modified Javelin set of blocks that had probably been produced by the factory for Ferguson, as the serial number starts FER2! Looking externally standard, they are Series 3 but with a separate rear oil seal for the crankshaft. Internally, there may be other differences, but I haven't investigated since storing them away.

I find the development work done for Ferguson by the factory fascinating and I hope the specially modified Javelin engine ( incorporating twin OHC camshafts, very like on the Alfasud engine ) is still on display in the Museum? Has there ever been a definitive article on the Ferguson development work published in the Jowetteer?

All the best,

David

[Forumadmin]

David,
An examination of the fergie blocks might be the subject of a technical day?
The only CD I know of in this country is being restored by Simon Wood.

[ajackson]

David,

I would welcome a technical/historical article in the Jowetteer. Could you be persuaded to get your blocks out of storage and show us the differences?!

Andy