Following "Me and My Dellow" I had an interesting email from Nigel Brown which he has given me to publish here:-

Michael,

Very pleased to see you have joined the Dellow brigade. I ran my Mark 1 in various forms over the 17 years that I trialled it.

	Gutless E93A on original SU's.
	E93A plus Shorrocks.
	100E plus Willment OHIV on SU's
	100E plus OHIV plus Shorrocks
	and finally 1500 pre cross-flow Ford on SU's.

Sold ECL 787 in ''87 as I had got the Allard Special well sorted by then and I needed the money to help restore our C16th ruin of a cottage! I still have the (basket-case) Lightweight Dellow (and the above OHIV engine) that Tony Marsh built for speed events. Terrific photo of it on the grid at '54 Silverstone over on the Dellow Register website.

Even with the well tuned 1500 my Dellow never ran hot on its original radiator. Yours looks to have been fitted with a very much smaller modern rad. 

Terminology. Dellow's don't have "fiddle brakes". NTF cars do - to operate either back wheel, Dellows never did. The outside handbrake on mine (when on original cables) operated front brakes when pushed forward and vice versa.

Wide axle. When Peter Le Couteur and I set about putting a "modern" axle in our Dellows we discussed and arrived at the following. 105E axle. In standard form the pinion flange is in fact offset to one side. By cutting opposite side casing only (around 2" from memory) we brought axle width down and centralised pinion. We had just one halfshaft to respline, recut along shaft (using originals to register cutter) and then finally took the approx. 2" off the end. This, with 4-to-5 stud adaptor plates we made, gave us exactly the same width rear track as the original axle.

If you have any queries and think I may be able to help, please don't hesitate to email or phone me. You deserve a medal for the website, it is informative and unfailingly interesting. It is now the only way that I keep in touch with the sport.

Good luck with the Dellow.

Regards

Nigel Brown