An Introduction: Chris Collins and Morris Tilly Project

[jack neville]

The best tops and bottoms of the inner frames were cut out and will be rejoined and reskinned when I have them all either sandblasted or derusted in the electrolysis bath. This is what I ended up with. The second photo shows what I had to compare with.

[austin tilly]

I just stumbled across this thread. Awesome to see a Morris Tilly being saved.


Do you have the manuals that go with it? I'm scanning my manuals of the different makes of the Tillys. A few can already be found at:
austin.tillyregister.com
hillman.tillyregister.com
morris.tillyregister.com
standard.tillyregister.com

Cheers
Arjan

[john piercey]

Congratulations guys,this is some serious restoration work ,end result should be spectacular.
Cheers
John

[jack neville]

While the door pieces were off being sandblasted I turned my attention back to the rooves. The former car roof has been completed and just needs finishing off with its support timbers and spare wheel supports. The B pillars have been tacked in place and the lower bracing added. I have added one of the weather strips which had been removed for derusting.

[jack neville]

The original roof needs repairing on the windscreen pillars which have rotted almost completely away.

[jack neville]

First I removed the short section of weather stripping so it could be separately derusted in the electrolysis bath.

[jack neville]

Because the end plate position is integral to the two halves of the windscreen joining together properly I did not want to disturb that part on either side. So to effect the repair I cut a small section out, fabricated a repair piece and wleded that in. The next piece was removed and replaced and so on, working my way around the damaged area one small piece at a time.