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Paul Brook Restoration, formerly Rustytrucks, is the award-winning* centre of excellence for classic, vintage and antique vehicle restoration based in the NorthWest of England. With over 30 years of experience on a bewildering array of vehicles large and small Paul is well placed to help you with your restoration project. Even if you don't need Pauls expertise right now there is plenty on the website here to amuse all of you out there who, like him, share a passion for old motors of all kinds.

17/06/2024

Anyone fancy a walk around a Dyson 50 tonTank Transporter trailer?

06/06/2024

Some cleaning up and tidying of the carb has improved this little 1904 Franklin engine considerably. I still have a little more tweaking to do, timing and valve clearances, which will have to be done by "feel" as data for these early engines is very hard to come by, but we are heading in the right direction.

27/05/2024

Old vehicles tend to have all sorts of things up their sleeves, very little of what we might describe these days as plug and play. Part of a recent, extensive restoration has involved the restoration of the period "trunk" - quite literally a large valise that could, on arrival at your hotel in the South of France, be removed and lugged upstairs by the bellboy whilst you checked in and perhaps took a small snifter just to wash the bugs out.

This one, a Brooks, has been heavily repaired in marine ply, then recovered by the amazing Goacher Sails (guess what they normally do?) from Bo'ness, followed by rather a lot of nickel plating and riveting.

Not quite there yet, as you will see from the video, but it is nearly ready for another 100 years or so.

24/05/2024

Does anyone need some 1200 x 24 tyres, complete with tubes and flaps?

Sadly they don't come with wheels as I need them, but the covers etc are available (although to be completely fair I have only got this one off the rim so far, but it came off without too much of a fight. If you want them I will strip the others)

I think they were originally off some big old Scammell but an unusual size for sure.

They are essentially free-ish to a good home. I say free-ish because I would like whoever wants them to make a £25 donation, whether you are having 1 or all 4, to a charity of your choice.

Collection from Appleby in Cumbria and no, they won't fit in a volvo estate.

Please pm me.

16/05/2024

If you know (why) you know......

05/05/2024

10/04/2024

A warm welcome to a number of folks.

The pressure is now on to post some stuff of interest welcome all.

Breit Herberth, Paddy Cox, Mark Reynolds, Terry Frost, Neil Whitehouse, Toon De Laaf, Alireza Hosini, Dave Williams, Robert Ferrier, Matthew Coxall

For now though, a mod to a rather cool little Childs jeep....

19/03/2024

Help needed

Can anyone identify this engine? I have looked all over it but no clues...

I need a water pump for it....

08/03/2024

Front End Friday

This view caught my eye earlier in the week so I thought that it might be worth sharing British Engineering Aristocracy rubbing shoulders with a couple of Americans one an unusual little touring car, the other an example of some solid American muscle; the lot of them kept in check by a big old motor that was an American answer to a British need.

Each one has something going for it, and working on each one has been a voyage of discovery, and tremendously satisfying!

24/02/2024

Some trick engineering here...

14/02/2024

Welcome to some new folks following our exploits...

Raymond Parton, Ross Stow, Simon Bull

08/02/2024

A brace of beauties from the Smith stable. Leading by a head, the ancient air cooled Franklin, which I am delighted to report started without drama after being stood for months whilst my attention was distracted by the 20HP RR to the far side of it...a few more jobs on both but, on the whole, looking quite nice, the pair of them. I have chucked in a few additional Franklin pictures.

06/02/2024

And finally time to test the klaxon horn...

06/02/2024

And the second klaxon vid - the fault is found....

06/02/2024

American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (later chief engineer of Thomas Edison) patented the klaxon horn mechanism in 1908, it consisted of a notched wheel rotating and actuating a diaphragm. The Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Company of Newark, New Jersey bought the rights to the device and marketed it widely. Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder, coined the name klaxon from the Ancient Greek verb klazō, "I shriek".

Well the first of 3 short videos show returning a 1920s electric version back to life.

03/02/2024

After a morning on client vehicle work I took a couple of hours this afternoon to continue work on the 1929 AC, this time the cab...

02/01/2024

It has been a day or two since Sean Gill and I were last shooting the breeze but he came for his new ride this morning. Like all good friendships the intervening 17 years was irrelevant. Great to see you Sean and I think your car is a bit of a honey...

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Anyone fancy a walk around a Dyson 50 tonTank Transporter trailer?

Old vehicles tend to have all sorts of things up their sleeves, very little of what we might describe these days as plug and play. Part of a recent, extensive restoration has involved the restoration of the period "trunk" - quite literally a large valise that could, on arrival at your hotel in the South of France, be removed and lugged upstairs by the bellboy whilst you checked in and perhaps took a small snifter just to wash the bugs out. This one, a Brooks, has been heavily repaired in marine ply, then recovered by the amazing Goacher Sails (guess what they normally do?) from Bo'ness, followed by rather a lot of nickel plating and riveting. Not quite there yet, as you will see from the video, but it is nearly ready for another 100 years or so.

A warm welcome to a number of folks. The pressure is now on to post some stuff of interest welcome all. Breit Herberth, Paddy Cox, Mark Reynolds, Terry Frost, Neil Whitehouse, Toon De Laaf, Alireza Hosini, Dave Williams, Robert Ferrier, Matthew Coxall For now though, a mod to a rather cool little Childs jeep.... @everyone

And finally time to test the klaxon horn...

And the second klaxon vid - the fault is found....

American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (later chief engineer of Thomas Edison) patented the klaxon horn mechanism in 1908, it consisted of a notched wheel rotating and actuating a diaphragm. The Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Company of Newark, New Jersey bought the rights to the device and marketed it widely. Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder, coined the name klaxon from the Ancient Greek verb klazō, "I shriek". Well the first of 3 short videos show returning a 1920s electric version back to life.

It's a nice afternoon and in between some other stuff I thought that I would just set the carb up on the 1943 Morris Light Reconnaisance Car as it was running a bit fast and not closing properly. Still a few rattles here and there (there is plenty to rattle believe you me) but the beast seems to be calmed. I think a stronger return spring would be a good shout. This is a very early Mk2, and one of only a tiny handful complete and running. I resisted the temptation to take it out for a spin, there are plenty of other jobs on other things around the workshop that need some attention

Fire it Up Friday In 1991 I took a few things in part exchange for a big double drive Foden from a chap called Peter Hedger. . Amongst the few things was a little Austin breakdown lorry. This had originally been a wartime Auxilliary Towing Vehicle. Post War it was one of a brace of Austins converted to Hose Reel Tender and used at Betsw-y-Coed fire station. Thereafter it continued life as a breakdown complete with Weaver crane and solid tyred towing ambulance. I sold it on, and shortly afterwards it ended up in the hands of the late Clive Bedford. Where it sat in a barn, pretty much unused for the next 30 plus years. And now it is back on hand still with the same wind in its tyres as it had 30 years ago. So today we had a bit of a tinker with it and lo and behold it runs. Actually it runs like a Swiss watch. But then it has only done just over 3000 miles from new. The question is, what next? Take it back to ATV, take it back to HRT or keep it as a breakdown lorry? What do you all think?