Morris Minor Owners Club

As I come to the last bit of the restoration of my traveler I have stumbled upon a small problem which I am sure some of you good folks could solve for me. I am currently installing the rear sliding windows and have fitted the two aluminium channel to each side and pressed in the weatherstrip. All fine but I have left two small aluminium channels each just over a foot in length which I assume are fitted to the vertical parts of the rear window aperture. However, I'm not sure if they should be fitted to the front or to the rear of the window or in fact should there be four channels so they can in fact be fitted to front and rear.
Most grateful of your knowledgeable advises.

The standard window runners are not aluminium, but a metal former covered in rubber/felt. However, I have found that the standard channel always deteriorates after a few years, and have used aluminium channel very successfully for the top and bottom runners. The vertical runners will be fitted one at the front and one at the rear, both into the woodwork - the fron against the outer edge, and the rear in the only place it will fit. Completely separately, you should have stainless steel sections fitted to the front edge of each piece of glass - these act as handles and also lock the glass closed. they are fitted ot the glass over a thin piece of rubber. Hope that all makes sense.

Thanks for the info, I can see now that the aluminium channels I have should not be fitted in fact they pinched the weather channels far to tight to enable the glass to be set within them. Also they increased the fitted window height so they have been relegated to the bin although I might cut a bit up for the verticals as I only have two sections. I ordered some more channel from E.S.M. with the stainless trim so they are now fitted on the outer side and the standard channel on the inside and with them both being firmly retained by the wooden inside trim they only needed a couple of screws to retain them. Ditto on the top of the window frame and I now have working sliding side windows. So thanks again for your help, you definitely got me out of the mire.