JoeyM
HalfDork
7/5/10 5:18 p.m.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorsport/goodwood-festival-of-speed/7872591/Goodwood-Festival-of-Speed-2010-Vauxhalls-1911-Prince-Henry-drive.html
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010: Vauxhall's 1911 Prince Henry drive
Vauxhall's 1911 Prince Henry has a new clutch. Not some boxed item from Borg and Beck, but pieces of leather, hand riveted onto two halves of a cone shape.
Maintenance, such as it exists, comes in the form of dosing with neatsfoot oil and blocking the clutch pedal at every opportunity to keep the friction surfaces apart and prevent the disgusterous unction being squeezed out.
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The Prince Henry has a reciprocating piston engine, magneto ignition via spark plugs, conventional pedal controls if not in the conventional layout – the accelerator is in the middle.
It hasn't got front wheel brakes (they were considered dangerous at the time) but it is recognisably a car except it was made when my grandmother was a little girl.
I love the bit about the front brakes...
NYG95GA
SuperDork
7/5/10 10:40 p.m.
That is one cool relic, right there! 
