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Variations – Engine Bay
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| Early style air box points towards the radiator. This style of air box was replaced after Morris chassis 375 and Austin RHD 2510, LHD 1361. | Later style air box pointed to the exhaust manifold taking warm air instead of cold to prevent the carb icing up. |
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Memo for replacing the early style air box on early cars if necessary. |
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| Very early style vacuum diaphragm unit with large nut where pipe fits, fitted up to approximately chassis 500. | Early style fitted on a car. |
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| Later style vacuum diaphragm. | Correct DM2 distributer. |
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| 59 engines have no adjuster on the clutch throw out stop. | Unlike October 1960 > style clutch housings. |
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| Block drain tap on a 59/60 engine. | The heater take off tap is accessed from the engine bay on top of the head. |
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| A four blade fan was fitted to all home market cars, yellow on Austin and red on early Morris cars only, all yellow from mid-way through 59 production. Export cars to hotter climates had a six blade export fan. The sixteen blade fan was introduced in Aug 61. | |
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| Oil filler cap is metal. | Early magnesium gearboxes – Please follow this link for more information on this subject. |
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| The master cylinders in the picture are the two earliest types. The far left hand master cylinder is the correct 1959 type which incorporates a removable “nut” in order to access the seals. This would be fitted to all 1959 cars. It was replaced by the right hand master cylinder which has a dummy nut 2nd week in January 1960. The cap used on all early cylinders is the metal type. |
This style of tapered master cylinder was not fitted to 59 cars originally including a plastic cap. |
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Correct early master cylinders and steel pipes fitted to an early 59. |
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| This style dot type Champion spark plug caps were fitted to all 1959 Minis. | |
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| A flat topped radiator. All corner top hose inlet radiators are correct for 1959. | A round top hose inlet radiator. |
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| The Coventry radiator plaque is not always present. | Some had Morris Motors radiators rather than Coventry. |
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A later style radiator without the top hose inlet in the near corner. |
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| A one piece radiator cowling was fitted until chassis number 4231 | |
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Memo showing at the bottom that from car number 4232 a split radiator cowl is fitted. |
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| Two types of washer system were used on both Austin and Morris cars. Standard on de-luxe and optional on basic cars. Wingard glass bottle and accompanying bracket and pump. The correct bottle will have UGB 16 embossed on the bottom. It is a 16 floz capacity. Glass bottle fitted to Morris cars up until chassis number 34014. Plastic Tudor has no end date recorded. |
A Wingard Glass bottle in place. |
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| The rival plastic Tudor bottle and bracket with different pump. Recorded as fitted to both Morris & Austin but only even seen in Austin cars in 1959. | A very early engine bay photograph of an Austin fitted with a Tudor Bottle. |
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| Correct 59 style domed horn. | Correct 59 type top engine steady bar. |
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| A dynamo with a straight or stepped body is correct for both Austin and Morris. | |
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A 59 coil should be Type LA12 and not HA12, so this, with green label LA12 is the correct one. |
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| A cast water pump with grease screw is correct for all 59’s. | The screw clearly visible on the water pump. |
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