Hello everyone, welcome to another weekly update from Quorn. This week alongside Saturday’s bus rally, we’ve continued our work on the tool van and Hector.
Before I get into the meat of the update, we’ve got another new arrival to mention. We’ve taken delivery of another Brush Pony, this time a long bed variety. We have a plan for this after stumbling on a 1953 sales brochure for said Brush Pony truck. Now that we’ve got Hector, we’ve gone with other characters from ‘Hector’s House’ for the other tugs. The short bed has now become Zsa Zsa, and the new arrival, Kiki.
Matt has received the Enigneers Olive green. He’s applied it to most of the tool van, covering the west side and both ends before running out of paint on the east side. There will be some more on order. Matt also finished the West side signwriting.
I did some work on Hector, fitting the new indicator flasher unit and the new rear light clusters. This involved a bit of rewiring thanks to a previous owner hacking the wiring to bits. Hector now has a full complement of lights, with only a brake overhaul and a repaint to see him finished. Matt fitted a new seat, and as Matt says “It’s fully adjustable!”. I also drained and filled Hectors drive unit with fresh ATF.
Nick scraped down the underframe of the tool van, and I followed behind applying underframe black once finished with Hector.
Sunday saw Matt apply the wasp stripes to the north corrugated end, showing again the attention to detail and time taken to something so impactful.
Nick and I continued with the underframe paint, completeing the south end headstock and east side. Matt picked out some details in white including the drawhooks, wheels and the handbrake ends.
That about covers our work this week. next week we’re looking at doing some roof repairs on B765272 and B786348. Join us then and see what we manage.
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