Well there are two tricky little bolts holding on the floor (inside cab), Just a bit of a wiggle over the accellerator ballcrank assembly. Now to start the clean, prime, paint and re-wire.
Keith you are correct (see photos) there is rubber on the top strip & Tony, the bottom is the tar/cloth tape.
Photo 1. The Bolt thread in the hole, and to the left the other bolt came out ok. Bugger! two each side, hidden under the dirt & yuk.
Photo 2. Shows the rubber top strip, 76 years young!
Photo 3. Split front, now to lug back to the garage with my growing cache of restored parts! Also teh black paint was a temporary thing as I was looking for the ARN under four layers of paint and a disk sander attack. Sadly I had to go to the War Memorial and find it there.
I am over uploading photos. 3 hours it took for these!