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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018   
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 Click image to enlarge Never seen this before - is it for real? |
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30th Jun 2014 11:07pm |
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| Lou Sparts Member Since: 15 Apr 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 1501 
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That's new to me too ! Cool though
 2005 Td5 90 XS
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30th Jun 2014 11:16pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19579
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Won't be fun when you get a cabin full of bugs and flys, or even wasps though!
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30th Jun 2014 11:22pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16886 
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I have my doubts!
What's holding them open? |
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30th Jun 2014 11:57pm |
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| Grouse Member Since: 16 Apr 2012 Location: on the hill Posts: 513 |
Looking at the grill, windscreen hinges and the mirror stems that's a Series 3 of around 1973 vintage
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1st Jul 2014 4:02am |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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This photo gives a better idea of how they appear work: [URL=] [/URL]
or on a different vehicle: Click image to enlarge Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated  |
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1st Jul 2014 10:21am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16886
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That second (Landrover - not VW) photo is interesting, the stay wasn't visible in the first but the scheme makes perfect sense. Over the years I've owned several vehicles with windscreens which open in this way. I wonder if any examples have survived - it would be a very rare option to find now.
The principle would be great on a TDCi now that the opening dash vents have been deleted. I wonder if an enterprising aftermarket manufacturer could develop something at a reasonable price (which didn't leak, of course). |
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1st Jul 2014 11:35am |
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| Fish Member Since: 21 Jan 2014 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 58 
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Be useful for shooting out of...
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1st Jul 2014 12:00pm |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471 
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Easy enough to do on a Series. I've restored and had quite a few old vehicles with opening screens and like them, in fact up until they came with heaters an opening screen was pretty standard. Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades. Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW. [Insert something impressive here such as extensive list of previous Land Rovers or examples of your prestigeous and expensive items, trinkets, houses, bikes, vehicles etc] http://forums.lr4x4.com I used to be Miserable ...but now I'm ecstatic. |
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1st Jul 2014 12:37pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971 
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Pretty common on tractors, it's a nice feature to have.
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1st Jul 2014 9:45pm |
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| strang Member Since: 16 May 2012 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 1362 
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I think I am right in saying that you don't need washer jets either (come MOT time) if you have front opening windows. Euro-Leafing to infinity and beyond.....
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2nd Jul 2014 12:53pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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I used to find they were a bit of a mixed thing with front screen openings on tractors. If there's a breeze then they could help but generally when working the tractor hard you would have engine heat, dust and noise straight at you. Not allways the most pleasant of experiences.
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2nd Jul 2014 1:40pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16886
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If you have one or more wipers then you MUST have working washers. You do not however require wipers nor washers if you can "obtain an adequate view to the front without looking through the windscreen".
In practice this means that if you present (for example) a series 1 Land-Rover for MoT testing with no tilt or hoodsticks fitted (so the windscreen can be dropped simply by unclipping it) it will pass with no wipers and washers present, and indeed I have done this (it had no doors either at the time). If the hoodsticks are fitted then the fact that you need tools to drop the windscreen means that most examiners will consider that it doesn't qualify for a pass. If you had a top-hinged 'screen like the one in this thread you wouldn't need wipers nor washers. However if you have either wipers or washers you must have both (you can't have the one without the other) and they must all work. |
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2nd Jul 2014 1:51pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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Found a different version of the same idea:
Click image to enlarge |
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16th Dec 2014 6:05pm |
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