It must be really confusing to have the pedals in the "wrong order". I've ridden motorbikes with all sorts of gear changing differences and driven left hand drive cars on holidays but the one thing that made me feel safe was that the brake was always where I expected it to be!
I know the Model T Ford also had a strange control layout. I was expecting manual ignition advance on this but perhaps it is fixed. That would explain the tricky starting.
It’s a beautiful car. Being a youngster of 66 I’m really only familiar with the Singers of the 1960s which I perceived at the time as being rather smart.
Nice to see an overhead valve engine in that early of a car. Chevrolet for example always has overhead valves, when most of not all American manufacturers stayed with side valves.
I thought something looked familiar....I lived on the main road (Sapley Road) for 0ver 10 years until last year! Where the car overtook you is a long steep hill up to RAF Wyton, people will overtake you even when doing 60! So the little Singer did really well.
Great film. You look like an Earls Court Motor Show model. The Singer reminds me of the Wolseley my dad had when I was very young in the early '60s. He was a mechanic who didn't believe in spending much on cars - much to my mother's dismay. The Singer goes very well, I can see why you like it.
Brilliant video, Steph. I love these pre-war videos of yours, they are both educational and inspirational. 30s cars deserve more recognition as many classic car enthusiasts ignore what they have to offer. Love the basic ignition key - if you lose it you could quickly carve a replacement from an old lolly stick! I'm assuming that key cannot be unique for the car as there are no teeth at all on it. Perhaps it's like tractors were until recently where any key would start any tractor. Btw, floor start was also a feature of the WW2 Willys Jeep! I too have owned a Singer but a 'modern' one - a 1968 Chamois (posh Imp!)
My first car was a Singer Chamios. Lovely little car with a wood dash. As you day a posh Imp. Need to hold onto the steering wheel in a cross wind or when overtaking a lorry.
What a beautiful little car! Nice to see that Teddy and Dolly got a ride out, I'm sure they really enjoyed themselves being driven round by Steph. The gearbox/differential whine is so lovely to hear, definitely the sign of a true classic.
Hi Steph. A wee tip on crash boxes. When changing up some of them will let you change up without double clutching. If you keep the clutch in and hold the gearstick against the gate with just enough pressure to stop you engaging the gear then when the revs drop to the right revs the gearshift should just click into gear as it would do if you had clutch failure and had to drive home without using the clutch pedal at all. Try it sometime ( off camera of course) to see if it works. I had a 1960 Fiat 500 and it was a lovely easy upward change whereas I had a 1962 Reliant Regal and let’s just say years later when I did my PSV training the Bristol Lodekka’s crash box was a doddle in comparison. 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you so much for the great video! I’m a guy who lives in Texas and our challenges here in the US with our pre-war cars Are different than yours, with a very different road system that is not amenable to vintage cars. This beautiful little Singer reminds me of someone’s cottage, well lived in and well loved. Best wishes from Texas, Steph.
Great video Steph. That pedal layout looks challenging! Having said that, at one time I had a Volvo (automatic), a Series 3 Landrover (floor change) and a Morris Oxford (column change). It always amazed me how my brain seemed instantly adapt to whichever one I was driving.
It's like being a bus driver for a charter company. 1 or 2 buses/coaches of each type of a varying fleet, but your brain just jumps in and drives them!
I could load/unload 100+ cars in a day on the transporters, anything from a delivery mileage Flying Spur to a classic car, ex Police Interceptor or a total scrapper heading to the crusher, you name it and I've probably driven it at some point in the last 30 years. I'd find the wipers, reverse gear, leccy window button or whatever without even looking.............unless it was LHD, my brain would turn to mush and I'd need at least 6 on the load before I got my eye in.
It absolutely is! It's served us well as a family for years and when my sister and I were younger we were 5 up in it with Grandad and my parents 😂 not bad for a "small family saloon" of the day 😂
12:58 Electric windscreen wipers! Many cars had vacuum operated wipers in the '50s - I remember going up hills in the rain, and wipers virtually stopping; manual wipers would have been better.
Great to see you in my neck of the woods driving some cars I recognise from the local scene. Let me know if you are coming back and want to try a Gilbern Invader!
What a pretty car. I'm with you Steph as to me it looks like a better option than an Austin or Morris equivalent. BTW, you're too hard on yourself. I thought you managed the pedal layout very well for a first attempt.
Having been brought up on this era of cars ( a school friend had a similar Singer, where I had a 1931 Rover 10/25, but I'm talking about 1962!) the dash light switch was, as someone else has touched on, to save on the use of precious battery power, but not while in motion. Until the 1970s, it was illegal to park almost anywhere without lights, so to try and avoid non-starts when parked with side and tail lights on, turning the dash light off was normal. Having said that, I so agree with the comment praising the Saab 'Night Panel' dash lighting - I still have a 9-5 - and wish it was easier to turn off the infotainment panel of my Subaru. I still regularly drive a 1940 bus with a centre accelerator and find no problem switching from one layout to another - or between different gear shifts - it concentrates the mind a bit, but adds to the interest of driving. Great video!
The city where I live in Canada, just 2 blocks where I live has a Singer Motor Co. building which was put up in 1912. Of course the building is now used for another industry, but there is a plaque on the front of the building that tells of the building history. Just thought u would like to know. Love these classic car videos.
My favourite videos of yours are the ones on pre-war motoring. Especially now that I've got one of my own. There is just nothing like them in terms of styling and feel.
A truly different video, going father back into history. Loved the period -appropriate outfit! (At least I suppose it must be -- I'm not old enough to remember that period but then you're not either!) I would have liked a more detailed explanation of the pedals, I'm aware interwar cars weren't standardized for pedal position or function, so it's certainly a bigger challenge to master driving them. I know someone who is restoring a Model T Ford and he explained the controls to me but all I remember is everything was different. The wooden paneling in the interior gave an impression of refined craftsmanship that didn't seem entirely consistent with the idea of the Singer being an inexpensive car. But, a lot of things were different in 1930.
Lol Buffalo, N.Y. after work stopping at my local grocery store, a Guy had a Ford model A out in this weather! then I got in and found this video, good job everybody...
Dose most things in 3rd or 4th that’s why a lot of the old boys when I learnt to drive in the 70s used to get into 3rd and just slip the clutch works wonders for the clutch plate not 🧐another great video lovely old car 👍
I started driving in 1977 and even in those days driving at night was a different and much more pleasant experience than it is now. Nobody drove around a town with even dipped headlights on, just side lights. It was much easier to see than it is now, with ludicrously bright lights blinding you every ten seconds! Dipped headlights were only used where there were no street lights.
Most people now seem too lazy to use main beam out in the unlit countryside so insist on dipped beams and foglights. Why? Are they afraid of using them in case they fear they're going to get knifecrimed in the head by an irate driver or something equally as stupid? Round here you need main beam because you learn very quickly that deer are remarkably stupid creatures... the brightness wars are ridiculous.
For 95 years old this is fantastic! But get the speedometer fixed! I do not think I could literally fit in this car. Glad to see that someone has preserved it.
8:25 a friend of mine very much into cars of this era suggested that the instrument panel light switch was more to do with reducing the load on the woeful dynamos of the era so what power was available from one went to the headlight(s). I liked the teddy bear best :)
Re the dash lights, SAAB used to have a switch marked " night panel" , this would switch off all the dash lights apart from the speedo, and it was quite effective when night driving . If any warning situation occurred, ie low fuel etc, the relevant gauge would re-illuminate. This was on most of their models right up to them closing down a few years ago.
I think Singers were a bit underrated through most of their 'life' mainly because people looked at things like Morris. I will say the Singers were well built cars as is this one. A number of pre-war cars had what we might think of as strange pedal arrangements, Dodge just as a random example, I am not sure when manufacturers decide on what we know and use today. An interesting point about the dash lights you mentioned, I wonder if people thought the 6 Volt system was quite dim and that the dash lights were more of a distraction than a help? Thanks for the Video Steph even with the mic issues it was still very well presented. 👍👍
Steph, you do a great job with these car road tests and the other videos, including your attention to detail matching outfits. As a pre war car owner I appreciate what you are doing to highlight just how good these cars are to own. We need people like you to resonate with a younger audience. I know how hard these cars can be to get accustomed to and I commend your bravery in tackling some of them so proficiently. Rustival and your contribution to it with the other like minded names is a much needed refresh for all old cars. I have always hated row on row of concourse cars with owners standing around a working lesser example slightly snearing. In my experience the lesser, working examples actually run better. How is the Triumph 1300 doing? As a bit of a ditty my late Father was a transmission designer and he worked for Triumph for about 2 years. His experience was commercial and semi auto gearboxes. Once at Triumph they set him to work on the transmission and final drive for the upcoming FWD1300 due to be launched in 1965. To his horror they wanted the design to utilise as many Herald components as possible with few new part designs. He told me that he lost out on convincing them to beef up some of the components including the output shaft ( you know that one). The car was designed to last 5 years they told him. He did win out on keeping the transmission and engine oil separate unlike Issigonis' design. He always maintained that engine oil was too low a viscosity for the transmission plus the engine debris. He was never fully happy with the finished job though because he felt they compromised the design and it could have been better. He had Trumph cars and liked them, his favourite was the Herald for which he designed the remote extension onto a basic Standard 10 gearbox. He left Triumph and went back to designing bus transmissions where he felt they did a proper job. Keep up the good work Steph, you should be proud of what you are doing and achieving Steph. That tip about the bicycle lights was a good one, brilliant idea. Regards Philip
Steph…my experience with Singer was the later Bantam 9 which was owned by my father’s friend Cyril. It took us to Cornwall for a fortnight, four adults and two children plus luggage which was a 200 mile journey each way…taking over ten hours but despite routine valve clearance adjustments during layby picnic stops, it never gave up. He had 15 years good service from it…HFC 368…long gone around 1957! Although I was not born then, another Singer was the Porlock Sports owned by my Uncle…bought for £1.50 when 13 years old because the owner could not get it to start. My Dad fixed it and my Uncle sold it for £10..a result!!😃😃😃😃
What a neat little car, very well kept and a nice colour. It would take a bit to get used of the pedal lay out. For a prewar vehicle it was well kitted out. I had a older little truck and the pedals and steering wheel where off set to the left to allow for the wheel arch. Another I had was utility or as we say in OZ a ute that had a snap action clutch. Either on or off nothing much else, That took some getting used to as there was no riding of the clutch to ease away.
It would be interesting to know the story behind the RAF badge. I thought at first it was made from a cap badge but it looks too big. It's pre 1952 because it has a King's Crown, the Queen's Crown being more rounded at the top.
I can help there! Dad was in the airforce for most of his working life - my sister found an RAF Horsebrass at an antiques place, gifted it to him and he turned it into a car badge. The other badge on the car was also originally a Horsebrass, and features this exact car as every year at the Plassey show they featured a car or piece of machinery who regularly atteneded the show on their commerative plaque, and the previous owner, a close family friend, always went 😊
Surprised to discover the oil gauge only goes up to 40psi. My 1932 Morris Minor has a 100psi gauge and the engine's oil pressure for the first 5-10 miles is 80psi, dropping to 50-60psi when fully hot.
Great review and a beautiful example. I’d heard of Singers but not seen one here in the US. Great job with the odd pedal and gear arrangement! 😂 You’re such a great presenter. I _so_ want a car with trafficators! My dad says that his very early VW Beetle had them, though they weren’t connected. Interesting that this car has a roller accelerator like my MG TD. Didn’t realize that was more common.
"I never met such a disagreeable madam", now that's classic! she wants to let you know who's in charge. all in all a quite wonderful old girl.
What a beautiful old car and, beautiful young lady ❤️
Smashing example of fashion sense!
Full credit to you Steph. Well handled. Most would not drive as well as that…..most wouldn’t even try. 😆
It must be really confusing to have the pedals in the "wrong order". I've ridden motorbikes with all sorts of gear changing differences and driven left hand drive cars on holidays but the one thing that made me feel safe was that the brake was always where I expected it to be!
I know the Model T Ford also had a strange control layout. I was expecting manual ignition advance on this but perhaps it is fixed. That would explain the tricky starting.
@@Phiyedough Yep
It’s a beautiful car. Being a youngster of 66 I’m really only familiar with the Singers of the 1960s which I perceived at the time as being rather smart.
Nice to see an overhead valve engine in that early of a car. Chevrolet for example always has overhead valves, when most of not all American manufacturers stayed with side valves.
or flathead as in my Profile Pic...
I thought something looked familiar....I lived on the main road (Sapley Road) for 0ver 10 years until last year!
Where the car overtook you is a long steep hill up to RAF Wyton, people will overtake you even when doing 60!
So the little Singer did really well.
Love the cars. Love how you drive them. Love your outfits!
Well done Steph! ❤
I have to say, I LOVE that gearbox whine! What a gorgeous car she is too.
On a fashion note, I like the way you've matched the car. 😄
Great film. You look like an Earls Court Motor Show model. The Singer reminds me of the Wolseley my dad had when I was very young in the early '60s. He was a mechanic who didn't believe in spending much on cars - much to my mother's dismay. The Singer goes very well, I can see why you like it.
Lovely warm green on that car
Thanks Steph, I was looking forward to seeing you drive that car. It's cute and looks user friendly compared to others of that era.
Well cared for inside and out. The bears are a nice addition. 🐻
The auto marketing up until the late 1950s is amazing. Who would market a model today named “the Junior”?
Alfa Romeo.
@ lol. But that is a historic Alfa name. I was also thinking of other names like Plymouth Cranbridge, Cranbrook, etc.
@@marial8235 the larger model was called the Senior 😂 very cool and down with the kids 😂
Brilliant video, Steph. I love these pre-war videos of yours, they are both educational and inspirational. 30s cars deserve more recognition as many classic car enthusiasts ignore what they have to offer. Love the basic ignition key - if you lose it you could quickly carve a replacement from an old lolly stick! I'm assuming that key cannot be unique for the car as there are no teeth at all on it. Perhaps it's like tractors were until recently where any key would start any tractor. Btw, floor start was also a feature of the WW2 Willys Jeep! I too have owned a Singer but a 'modern' one - a 1968 Chamois (posh Imp!)
My first car was a Singer Chamios. Lovely little car with a wood dash. As you day a posh Imp. Need to hold onto the steering wheel in a cross wind or when overtaking a lorry.
Clever use of Singer sewing machine mats, table preservers, on the floor. Great video and very appealing car. Thanks
@@yesteryear2237 All of Dad's cars have them 😂 it doesn't help with the confusion from people who think they're the same company 😂
Hi , looking great, car's not bad either. Many thanks.
What a cute car Steph. The sort of car my Mum would call a "puddle jumper".
What a beautiful little car! Nice to see that Teddy and Dolly got a ride out, I'm sure they really enjoyed themselves being driven round by Steph.
The gearbox/differential whine is so lovely to hear, definitely the sign of a true classic.
The gear whine is a song in my ears.🎶
Hi Steph. A wee tip on crash boxes. When changing up some of them will let you change up without double clutching. If you keep the clutch in and hold the gearstick against the gate with just enough pressure to stop you engaging the gear then when the revs drop to the right revs the gearshift should just click into gear as it would do if you had clutch failure and had to drive home without using the clutch pedal at all.
Try it sometime ( off camera of course) to see if it works. I had a 1960 Fiat 500 and it was a lovely easy upward change whereas I had a 1962 Reliant Regal and let’s just say years later when I did my PSV training the Bristol Lodekka’s crash box was a doddle in comparison. 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣
hmm
I did my PSV on a Leyland Leopard with a crash box. It's a technique worth preserving.
@@terraplane49 it certainly is mate.
Thank you Steph for showing us this Singer. I’m impressed by all the wonderful woodwork in this car!
Lovely matching outfit.
So glad they finally adopted one pedal box layout, still takes me a while to adjust to an auto.
Steph, what a lovely little car.. I'd have that over an Austin 7 any day. I doubt there are many if any down here in Australia...
There is a thriving Singer scene in Australia! A local club too 😊
No doubt, but that doesn't mean that are necessarily many pre war cars here.. I may be wrong, but suspect the Austin 7 would far outnumber others.
Steffie I love this car !
45 mph is 72 kmph.
That's pretty good speed.
I would have stayed to see more of a beautiful redhead, but, Steph, I truly enjoyed your review of this classic car.
Another amazing pre war car that drives so well Like the outfit as comments below
Lovely little car!!!! And what a lovely matching dress!!!
Thank you so much for the great video! I’m a guy who lives in Texas and our challenges here in the US with our pre-war cars Are different than yours, with a very different road system that is not amenable to vintage cars. This beautiful little Singer reminds me of someone’s cottage, well lived in and well loved. Best wishes from Texas, Steph.
Great video Steph. That pedal layout looks challenging! Having said that, at one time I had a Volvo (automatic), a Series 3 Landrover (floor change) and a Morris Oxford (column change). It always amazed me how my brain seemed instantly adapt to whichever one I was driving.
It's like being a bus driver for a charter company. 1 or 2 buses/coaches of each type of a varying fleet, but your brain just jumps in and drives them!
I could load/unload 100+ cars in a day on the transporters, anything from a delivery mileage Flying Spur to a classic car, ex Police Interceptor or a total scrapper heading to the crusher, you name it and I've probably driven it at some point in the last 30 years. I'd find the wipers, reverse gear, leccy window button or whatever without even looking.............unless it was LHD, my brain would turn to mush and I'd need at least 6 on the load before I got my eye in.
Brilliant video Steph! I admire your confidence in driving these old cars. And I love all your outfits match the cars and occasions. Nicky x
I feel that light from the dashboard feeling about those great big screens in most of the new electric cars .
I just love the matching of car and your outfit. A not-so-small attention to detail that show how much effort you out into this. Thanks Steph!
Lovely little car, the missus loves it and I would love one...Cool review young lady! Thanks 🎅🏼
Beautifully made little car! It looks really practical, as far as a pre war vehicle goes too.
It absolutely is! It's served us well as a family for years and when my sister and I were younger we were 5 up in it with Grandad and my parents 😂 not bad for a "small family saloon" of the day 😂
Lucky day, I stumbled onto your site. What a great treat to start my day. 😇
Gorgeous colour combination.
Thanks again for sharing, Steph. It's awesome to see more pre war cars again. Another lovely matching outfit too. 😊👍
12:58 Electric windscreen wipers! Many cars had vacuum operated wipers in the '50s - I remember going up hills in the rain, and wipers virtually stopping; manual wipers would have been better.
Great to see you in my neck of the woods driving some cars I recognise from the local scene. Let me know if you are coming back and want to try a Gilbern Invader!
I love that the trunk really is a trunk.
Great video, Steph, of a lovely, quality small car from the 1930s.
Great video Steph. I absolutely love pre war cars. This Singer Junior is fabulous. 😀
Nicely presented.
Are those dashboard clocks set in to a brass panel? That's a beautiful design!
Excellent introduction to per war cars, driven very well, well produced. Liked the voice over.
What a delightful purr that engine makes! A real pleasure to the ears!
What a pretty car. I'm with you Steph as to me it looks like a better option than an Austin or Morris equivalent. BTW, you're too hard on yourself. I thought you managed the pedal layout very well for a first attempt.
Having been brought up on this era of cars ( a school friend had a similar Singer, where I had a 1931 Rover 10/25, but I'm talking about 1962!) the dash light switch was, as someone else has touched on, to save on the use of precious battery power, but not while in motion. Until the 1970s, it was illegal to park almost anywhere without lights, so to try and avoid non-starts when parked with side and tail lights on, turning the dash light off was normal. Having said that, I so agree with the comment praising the Saab 'Night Panel' dash lighting - I still have a 9-5 - and wish it was easier to turn off the infotainment panel of my Subaru. I still regularly drive a 1940 bus with a centre accelerator and find no problem switching from one layout to another - or between different gear shifts - it concentrates the mind a bit, but adds to the interest of driving. Great video!
Another wonderful and informative video Steph you've sold the Singer Junior to me 👍
The city where I live in Canada, just 2 blocks where I live has a Singer Motor Co. building which was put up in 1912.
Of course the building is now used for another industry, but there is a plaque on the front of the building that tells of the building history.
Just thought u would like to know.
Love these classic car videos.
My Dad's first car was a Singer LeMans coupe. Thanks for reviewing this little car!
Do you know the registration number?
My favourite videos of yours are the ones on pre-war motoring. Especially now that I've got one of my own. There is just nothing like them in terms of styling and feel.
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Another great video Steph and a lovely old car.
Fantastic video....loved the drive!
These videos make me happy. No joke 😊
A truly different video, going father back into history. Loved the period -appropriate outfit! (At least I suppose it must be -- I'm not old enough to remember that period but then you're not either!) I would have liked a more detailed explanation of the pedals, I'm aware interwar cars weren't standardized for pedal position or function, so it's certainly a bigger challenge to master driving them. I know someone who is restoring a Model T Ford and he explained the controls to me but all I remember is everything was different. The wooden paneling in the interior gave an impression of refined craftsmanship that didn't seem entirely consistent with the idea of the Singer being an inexpensive car. But, a lot of things were different in 1930.
Now you have driven the centre accelerator set up you are ready to try a CMP truck as well. Nice little car, I would enjoy it a lot too.
Lol Buffalo, N.Y. after work stopping at my local grocery store, a Guy had a Ford model A out in this weather! then I got in and found this video, good job everybody...
Thanks Steph, what a beautiful car, the owner loves it for sure.
Dose most things in 3rd or 4th that’s why a lot of the old boys when I learnt to drive in the 70s used to get into 3rd and just slip the clutch works wonders for the clutch plate not 🧐another great video lovely old car 👍
I was sitting up saying. “Choke off, foot to the floor, it’ll start.” And so it went. Lol.
After this promotion, Singers will be all the vogue! 😃
I started driving in 1977 and even in those days driving at night was a different and much more pleasant experience than it is now. Nobody drove around a town with even dipped headlights on, just side lights. It was much easier to see than it is now, with ludicrously bright lights blinding you every ten seconds! Dipped headlights were only used where there were no street lights.
Most people now seem too lazy to use main beam out in the unlit countryside so insist on dipped beams and foglights. Why? Are they afraid of using them in case they fear they're going to get knifecrimed in the head by an irate driver or something equally as stupid? Round here you need main beam because you learn very quickly that deer are remarkably stupid creatures... the brightness wars are ridiculous.
hmmm
That gearbox whine🎵😎👌👌👌👍
Well done with the different pedal layout. Trying to see if you were double declutching. Usually on first gear no synchromesh.
For 95 years old this is fantastic! But get the speedometer fixed! I do not think I could literally fit in this car. Glad to see that someone has preserved it.
8:25 a friend of mine very much into cars of this era suggested that the instrument panel light switch was more to do with reducing the load on the woeful dynamos of the era so what power was available from one went to the headlight(s). I liked the teddy bear best :)
Brilliant Steph thank you ❤
Thanks Steph, lovely little green machine 👍❤️.
Re the dash lights, SAAB used to have a switch marked " night panel" , this would switch off all the dash lights apart from the speedo, and it was quite effective when night driving . If any warning situation occurred, ie low fuel etc, the relevant gauge would re-illuminate. This was on most of their models right up to them closing down a few years ago.
Yes, I remember that feature - a great idea.
Beautiful car.
I think the shape of this car is why I got a 1971 LWB Land Rover. Crash gear in second.
I think Singers were a bit underrated through most of their 'life' mainly because people looked at things like Morris. I will say the Singers were well built cars as is this one. A number of pre-war cars had what we might think of as strange pedal arrangements, Dodge just as a random example, I am not sure when manufacturers decide on what we know and use today. An interesting point about the dash lights you mentioned, I wonder if people thought the 6 Volt system was quite dim and that the dash lights were more of a distraction than a help? Thanks for the Video Steph even with the mic issues it was still very well presented. 👍👍
Absolutely adorable.
Thanks for showing this old treasure
BRILLIANT review. Greetings from Oz.
nice to see youre looking after yourself !!
Steph, you do a great job with these car road tests and the other videos, including your attention to detail matching outfits. As a pre war car owner I appreciate what you are doing to highlight just how good these cars are to own. We need people like you to resonate with a younger audience. I know how hard these cars can be to get accustomed to and I commend your bravery in tackling some of them so proficiently. Rustival and your contribution to it with the other like minded names is a much needed refresh for all old cars. I have always hated row on row of concourse cars with owners standing around a working lesser example slightly snearing. In my experience the lesser, working examples actually run better.
How is the Triumph 1300 doing? As a bit of a ditty my late Father was a transmission designer and he worked for Triumph for about 2 years. His experience was commercial and semi auto gearboxes. Once at Triumph they set him to work on the transmission and final drive for the upcoming FWD1300 due to be launched in 1965. To his horror they wanted the design to utilise as many Herald components as possible with few new part designs. He told me that he lost out on convincing them to beef up some of the components including the output shaft ( you know that one). The car was designed to last 5 years they told him. He did win out on keeping the transmission and engine oil separate unlike Issigonis' design. He always maintained that engine oil was too low a viscosity for the transmission plus the engine debris. He was never fully happy with the finished job though because he felt they compromised the design and it could have been better. He had Trumph cars and liked them, his favourite was the Herald for which he designed the remote extension onto a basic Standard 10 gearbox. He left Triumph and went back to designing bus transmissions where he felt they did a proper job.
Keep up the good work Steph, you should be proud of what you are doing and achieving Steph. That tip about the bicycle lights was a good one, brilliant idea.
Regards Philip
Beautiful color combo and i didn't know Singer made cars, as you say sowing machines. Very interesting Steph, love the horseshoe which is of period.
Completely different companies, people just often confuse them 😊
Steph…my experience with Singer was the later Bantam 9 which was owned by my father’s friend Cyril. It took us to Cornwall for a fortnight, four adults and two children plus luggage which was a 200 mile journey each way…taking over ten hours but despite routine valve clearance adjustments during layby picnic stops, it never gave up. He had 15 years good service from it…HFC 368…long gone around 1957! Although I was not born then, another Singer was the Porlock Sports owned by my Uncle…bought for £1.50 when 13 years old because the owner could not get it to start. My Dad fixed it and my Uncle sold it for £10..a result!!😃😃😃😃
Steph,you're looking great!
Very interesting video, and your outfit is fab!
What a beautiful little car.
loved the struggle to start. please do post more videos where you struggle to start too
Loved the glimpse of stocking top!
Greetings from Texas! Great video (as usual) Steph. My ‘88 Austin Mini is also named Emma, but she’s a lot easier to drive!
Nice classic. Thank you filming this.
What a neat little car, very well kept and a nice colour. It would take a bit to get used of the pedal lay out. For a prewar vehicle it was well kitted out. I had a older little truck and the pedals and steering wheel where off set to the left to allow for the wheel arch. Another I had was utility or as we say in OZ a ute that had a snap action clutch. Either on or off nothing much else, That took some getting used to as there was no riding of the clutch to ease away.
It would be interesting to know the story behind the RAF badge. I thought at first it was made from a cap badge but it looks too big. It's pre 1952 because it has a King's Crown, the Queen's Crown being more rounded at the top.
I can help there! Dad was in the airforce for most of his working life - my sister found an RAF Horsebrass at an antiques place, gifted it to him and he turned it into a car badge. The other badge on the car was also originally a Horsebrass, and features this exact car as every year at the Plassey show they featured a car or piece of machinery who regularly atteneded the show on their commerative plaque, and the previous owner, a close family friend, always went 😊
@passengerseatpodcast Thank you.
love the stocking tops!
Fantastic car. Another great video. 😀
Thank you steph. Another wonderful program. Is there any chance of you doing a Renault Dauphine?
Surprised to discover the oil gauge only goes up to 40psi. My 1932 Morris Minor has a 100psi gauge and the engine's oil pressure for the first 5-10 miles is 80psi, dropping to 50-60psi when fully hot.
Great review and a beautiful example. I’d heard of Singers but not seen one here in the US. Great job with the odd pedal and gear arrangement! 😂 You’re such a great presenter.
I _so_ want a car with trafficators! My dad says that his very early VW Beetle had them, though they weren’t connected. Interesting that this car has a roller accelerator like my MG TD. Didn’t realize that was more common.
Very good overview of the car and the experience.
Seen one of these, with an open top, in the Glasgow museum of transport during the 1990's.
Great video, thank you. Morris 10/4 fan myself, and manufacture leaders M
Just wonderful!🤠🦘😘
Great Steph though I'm biased as I have a 1935 Singer Le Mans! Can I put your video on the Singer Owners' Club website please? Thanks
Of course you can! I would love you to x
Brilliant thanks.
If you would like to drive another prewar Singer I have a 1935 1.5 litre Le Mans.