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Sizaire Fréres 4RI going home

  • mcpheatauto
  • Sep 16
  • 2 min read

The 1924 Sizaire Fréres 4RI that's been in the workshop for a couple of years is going back to its home in France next week with all required work complete. Most of the work was finished a while ago but the fabrication of a spare wheel bracket proved to be the most complicated job and getting my fabricator's time hasn't always been easy this year. The rest of the job list included quite a bit of electrical work with the fabrication of a wiring loom, moving the battery and installing an isolator, installation of head, side, brake and tail lamps and the relevant brackets and switches, fitting a horn and switch and a low pressure fuel pump. The best of the starter motors that came with the car has been modified to fit and new cables installed. The magneto cut out switch was changed into an ignition switch with the use of a microswitch and a relay as the car is running with coil ignition, I also connected the fuel pump to this circuit. The fuel source was a can in the rear passenger area, it's now been connected to the original fuel tank (which had been restored previously but not hooked up). From an appearances perspective I've roughly machine turned the dash (that's the way the owner wanted it), fitted the Brooklands screens and made sure he can throw the tonneau over the whole car when touring with passengers - the cover for the rear seats doesn't fit in the car, only on it. And lastly, one of the brake drums had separated from the hub and been roughly welded in the past but it wasn't square so the broken part was removed and new hub fabricated, threaded into the drum and dutch dowelled. It's been a nice car to have around, rakish looks but also all independent suspension, rack and pinion steering and a 2 litre OHC engine, more advanced on paper than most everything that comes through the workshop up until the 1980s, pretty advanced for 1924.


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