Report Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd. Car meeting No.176

This report is a continuation of the report dated 24 June 1952. 1 General development (a) Engines : Three 3.4 hemispherical head type. Three 3.4 Squish head type. Two 2.4 hemispherical head type. Three 2.4 squish head type. (b) Gear boxes: THe supply position of 6 YA type electrically controlled pre-selector gear boxes, issued on 1 January 1951. (c) New cars: Authority was given on 28 march 1951, to build six chassis and six bodies as soon as possible to production standards: 1 Experimental. Grey car LWK.340 6-light. 2 Black car XMX.340 4-light. 3 Black car LWK.311 6-light. 4 HTC Maroon LWK.444 4-light. 5 TOMS grey car LKV.914 4-light. 6 Show 6-light. 7 3.4 litre Graber JWK.722. (d) Tooling: Estimated total cost £247,216 Purchase order placed £228,150 Expenditure to date £228,358 (e) Weight problem. 2 Development programme. 3 Miscellaneous development. 4 Production (b) Today there are 44 Hurricanes, 155 4-light Whitleys,158 6-light Whitleys, and 33 Station Coupes yet to deliver, and of this total of 392, 187 have been completely built. We are continuing to build the balance at the rate of 20 per week. 5 Sanctions