Morris Minor Owners Club

Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of the silver screws that hold the chrome bezel to the back light units for a seriesII 1954 splitscreen Minor? Previous owner snapped them off and I,ve tried all the main dealers but no luck. Can anyone help?

Drill out and fit stainless I suspect!

Lucas used an odd sized thread for there parts so you had to buy genuine lucas parts. I was lucky enough to get a couple of these screws at last years national to replace the the forced in self tapers that a previous owner had fitted....

Carlo had good stainless replacments but they were metric and still had to be drilled out and tapped.

Lucas used a lot of BA stuff - including some odd-numbered ones, like 3BA and 5BA. They used BSB for things like foglamp mountings.

Has anyone measured any of these Lucas proprietary threads that David mentions?

Kevin

Try the Electric Parts Company. tel 01584 811118, they specialise in Lucas parts

I am fairly sure these are Whitworth threads - making them the only whitworth threads on the Minor.

Rog

Blimey - Whitworth as small as that ?

I've just found my reference - its the original version of the MMOC tech tips manual - which states :-

"the series MM & early S11 rear lamps are held on by BSF Bolts, the internal bulb holder by 2BA screws & the lamp rims by 3/16 Whitworth screws"

You couldn't make it up could you

Rog

Amazing - well found!

That covers most of the threads on one item, just missing metric threads (Series MM engine) and pipe threads.

That's standardisation for you!