In June 1931, just four months after the first SV Minors left Cowley in February that year, the Morris Owner magazine published a full four-page article entitled ‘Decarbonising is so simple on the SV Minor‘. This article can now be found in the Member’s area Technical section, under ‘Engines’.

Belfast born Billy Sullivan raced Minor Specials that bore his name. His exploits in the thirties went largely unnoticed and unrecorded until an Automobile magazine article published in April 1994 (written by John S. Moore) aroused interest in the pre-war Minor world. Harry Edwards, the former Morris Register historian, followed this up in 2007 with another well researched piece and both articles appear in a short tribute entitled Billy Sullivan and his Minor Specials which can be found at the foot of  The Minor in competition page within the Member’s Area.

Fitting new flexible couplings to a Minor should be a straightforward task. Plenty of forum posts over the last decade have indicated that is not always the case. An official Morris guide entitled ‘Running hints in pictures no.41’, first published in July 1934 has now been added in PDF form to the Technical section of the Member’s Area under ‘Gearbox, clutch & differential’.

Regular contributor Peter Brock has provided a set of photographs and technical drawings of the brass handbrake cable-guides as fitted to the pre-war Minor. These can be found in PDF form under ‘Brakes’ in the Technical section within the Member’s Area of the website.

A short illustrated  article by Chris Healey describing the importance of the damping effect of the felt washers under the clutch toggle fingers has been added to the Technical area today.

There has been plenty of speculation and discussion concerning the purpose and necessity of the Bellville washer in the Minor engine. Chris Healey provides some insight in his technical article ‘ The mysterious Bellville washer’, which can now be found under ‘Engines’ in the website’s Technical area.

The re-designed Hornet Special chassis for 1934 with its new underslung frame was the subject of a Light Car article in October 1933. That article now resides in the Member’s Area at the foot of the Wolseley Hornet Sports & Specials page in the ‘library’.

Site member Chris Healey has written an informative and easy to understand article on how to fit an oil seal to the front pulley of a Minor. This document now resides as a downloadable PDF in the Member’s Area Technical section, under ‘Engines’.

Thanks to Peter Brock, two new detailed drawings depicting both the clutch and brake pedal ‘stops’ have been added to the Technical Bits section in the Member’s Area.

Each year a new Event Galleries page is launched and 2020 is not to be an exception. The new page now contains  14 images, all taken at the recent VSCC Driving Tests held at the Brooklands Museum, Weybridge. Find it here.