1934 Rover 12 door handles

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1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by digcot65 » Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:27 pm

Thanks for previous answers.I have an odd thing on the front doors If when you close them the interior handle goes forward,it locks the door the way you would if you were inside the car and wanted to lock it.The problem is,that if you close the door and it locks,there is no way of opening from the outside When I was spraying the car I fixed a length of string to the handle and fed it though the rear window so the doors could be opened.I`m going to have to remove a door card and see if I can deactivate it. Worried that if I went anywhere and the door closed and self locked I`d be in trouble

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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by luli » Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:13 pm

There is difference between the driver's door lock and the passenger door lock. In a correct driver lock the only way to lock the driver's door is from outside. Fit the correct lock. you can download the Wilmot Breeden guide from https://file.freemanual.asia/?q=wilmot+ ... stdied.com for more information.
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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by digcot65 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:04 am

Thanks for the information re handles I`m wary about giving my card details to anyone.I cannot see the reason for doing this ,to get info.on sales items Len

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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by TonyG » Sun Jan 31, 2021 2:51 pm

Len,

Glad my advice helped with attaching the horn assembly and I agree with you, it will be good when we can get our cars along to some shows again.

Regarding the door lock; obviously the driver door mechanism will be the one that wears out and, most likely for that reason, the most available replacement was clearly one from a passenger door. I feel certain that the mechanism won’t be much different and it should be a simple modification to prevent the handle from operating the lock function. Let us know how you get on. Ironically, the outside lock only prevents the handle moving within the escutcheon so breaking in is a simple matter of removing the two retaining screws and turning the handle. This thought occurred to me as I fitted the handles to my Tourer doors, which I had specified with locks, but with doors one could step over it was little more than an inconvenience to a would be thief. However, I think we are all painfully aware how vulnerable and insecure our old cars are!

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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by luli » Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:06 pm

In the saloons, at least, one of the 2 bolts is inside, not outside, so that it is not so easy to remove the handle without opening the door first. However, the union key system has only 50 keys patterns. Each is marked on the key - and on the cylinder, so that every self respected thief had the whole collection and could open the door and start the car. Rover took care that the start, door and trunk had the same number, to make it easy...

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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by partviking » Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:17 pm

Do you know the thread and the length of the bolts that hold the handles on a 1940 12 S/S? I assume they are BSW, BSF or BA. Part of the fun of restoring an incomplete car which is also being hampered by not being able to attend shows and look at other cars. :(

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Post by luli » Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:57 pm

It is 2BA. countersunk (slotted, not Philips!)
see for example here https://wp.me/pXLKy-1kd
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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by partviking » Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:24 am

Thank you Luli.

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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by digcot65 » Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:30 pm

Hello Ive removed the front door lock and you can see ,when the handle is pushed the one way to open the door OK . However if the interior door handle is pushed or by accident goes forward it locks the door from outside.So a simple job stop this happening I can stop the top section from rising up. . Spots next to each other door can be opened spots on different side door locked The door can they be locked from the outside,with the key.Len
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Re: 1934 Rover 12 door handles

Post by digcot65 » Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:47 pm

Just put a spot of weld on the pawl,to stop it rising when the door handle is pushed forward ,which it can`t now I have piece of mind about being locked out and having to break a window I job done 999 to do Len

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