Battery Holdens-Chev MCP 216 engine

[Lionelgee]

Hello Cliff, Graeme, David and Mike,

Thank you for your responses. Much appreciated.

So would that bolt in the top left hand corner of the last photograph be a pinch bolt that tightened the metal strap around the battery to hold it snug? Would this be the only way the battery was held down? As in, with no bar going over the top of the battery that is held down to the frame by two "J" bolts with wing-nuts?

I crawled under the truck in the daylight and found out that the bottom and sides of my battery box were made by Bodgey Brothers. The side braces are made up of two old long door hinges, with a bit of wound up fencing wire to tighten the sides together. The base is a piece of timber - with door hinge either end of it to space out the door hinge sides once the wire has been twitched tight. Then there is some tin on top of the wood which the battery sits on.

How were the original battery boxes made? Were they made up of a "C" shape where the two sides and bottom are folded from a single piece of sheet metal?

If anyone has a photograph of an original battery box they could post up on this thread it would be great?

Kind Regards
Lionel