mystery transmission?

[eschneider]

was digging through the shop and dug this trans out....

any ideas? haven't found any numbers yet.

 

[DrEntropy]

It ~looks~ to be a BMC unit, mid to late'50's something-or-other.


If it's in your pile o' stuff, shouldn't it be a Triumph? The tail mount would appear to be so but the bell housing doesn't look proportionately big enough.

 

[eschneider]

It ~looks~ to be a BMC unit, mid to late'50's something-or-other.

That about sums it up, doesn't it? <grin>

If it's in your pile o' stuff, shouldn't it be a Triumph? The tail mount would appear to be so but the bell housing doesn't look proportionately big enough.

We've all manner of bits laying about. Lord knows what all has been collected.... aircooled VW stuff.... Datsun Fairlady.... Model "A" Ford.....

 

[DrEntropy]

Amazing.

Got to be there's a MOWOG, STANPART or EnFo ~someplace~ on it. I'm bettin' Standard Triumph.

 

[Andrew Mace]

I'm thinking TR2 or earlier TR3, as it appears to have the dipstick on the top cover. I think you might find a stamped serial number somewhere around where the throwout arm lever comes out of the case, and it likely would start with "TS".

 

[aeronca65t]

Here's a TR3 trans. Looks similar.

 

[eschneider]

Yup. TR2/3/4..... (slaps forehead) looks like the other dozen of them I have here...... Bonehead move.

 

[racingenglishcars]

You could think it's a TR2,3 or 4, but the later 3's and 4's had a long nose starter. The earlier units had a short starter that would fit into that bulge.
However, the case has the wrong shape for a TR unit at the bottom, and those "wings" or bosses for the clutch arm doesn't match TR units. Maybe more like a small triumph, but the spitfire and GT6 had ribbed bell housing. Maybe a Herald or even a Morris Marina. (Yes they used a 1275 with a spitfire trans.)