PAG 22, page 18
Letters to the Editor Dear Sirs etc
Enclosed my subscription for next four newsletters,
Eagerly awaited, avidly read, highly admired
Thank you Geoff (Hodgetts)
aka Uncle Hob
Geoff—You are too kind ! So kind in fact I’ve put you down for a couple of issues extra on the house. Who says bribery gets you nowhere ! Crackleport
Arriving at the Pembletons are Go ! News office the other week a subs form from Sweden. Complete with
2 x £2 coins. After making contact via email reassuring Bertil we would all support him in his build I received the following rely—
Hi Ian
Thank you very much for your email, I will publish photos on my website www.algonet.se/~bkm under the thumbnail with a car. I will send you photos too. I am very glad to get in contact with you so I can get help when needed. I visited UK 10th of October last year
together with my son and decided to build a BRA CV3 after I had tested the BRA CV, BRA CX and a JZR.
Unfortunately I hadn’t heard of Pembleton by that time. The manufacturer Leighton Cars offered me a kit and also help with donor parts as the 2CV never were sold over here. Eleven months later and hundreds of lies later I was finally told that Leighton could not sell anything to me because of legal problems with the manufacturer of the BRA CX (Arthur Raynor) .. The person at Leighton had even told me that parts were sent and when they did not arrive he said that they had ended up in America !!!!!!!!
I found Pembleton and got the phone number to Phil from John Ward. My parts are now under production and my son has arranged a transport from UK to
Sweden.. He works as Volvo Technologies co-ordinator for alternative fuels so he has connections with
transporters that are only half filled with parts going from Birmingham to Sweden. Otherwise it seems we still live in Mediveal time., its impossible to get bigger parts sent from UK to Sweden
I am a structural engineer working as head of the
department for buildings and infrastructure at the
Municipality of Gotland. Gotland is the biggest island in the Baltic Sea. I am also a keen aero modeller since childhood and I usually build RC from my own plans.
Sizes vary from 1:8 to 1:3 scale. You can see my
models on my website, I also sell scale items imported from UK, Australia and so on.
But I never built a car and that surely will be a challenge to me and I am sure I will need advise. I have been thinking about a threewheeler for about 20 years so now I have to do it.
I have an inspector connected to the project, it works in the same way as if I was building a full scale aeroplane only with less checkpoints. When the car is checked by the inspector I have to get it through a registration check but that should be fine when the inspector has corrected any faults. I have already established a good contact with him and he is as interested as I am to see the
project completed.
Hope my English is understandable
By for now and thanks again
Bertil Klintbom bkm@algonet.se
We will be keeping in touch with Bertil and keeping up to date with his build, alternatively if you can’t wait then keep an eye on his website. (I’ll ask John to see if we can put in a link direct from ours) - Albert
Dear Glyn,
If this comes out, its blurb about relative positions
of the gearlever, re-lhd and rhd cars.
As they were originally designed as left hand drive,
rhd 2cv's were slightly altered to cope with the wheel
on the other side [also they have the extra demister tube
to the right hand side of the window-although this
doesn't affect hoppers.]
This should explain why gear sticks are angled
Differently and the gear stick goes through the glove box.
It makes it easier to sort the front lever slot directly in the front wall of the glove box. I used 2 bits of 2CV
gutter plastic either side to let it slip up and down without grating on the aluminium.
Hope you got the photos of the Brooklands.
David.
We received your photos of the Brooklands and Konrod put them out on the web site. Glad you are alright, it looks quite a hefty bang, must have jolted the old fillings somewhat eh?
Algernon