Welcome to the latest on-line newsletter from us here at Canley Classics. It's been a while since the last update but thankfully not a two year gap like last time!

By the time you read this, the Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run will be upon us. This year I'll be in the Courier van, sharing with John Kipping and Jason Chinn. For those of you that don't know, 'Canley Classics' had close business links with 'John Kipping Triumph Spares' from the 1980's until 1999 when John and wife Fiona retired and Canley Classics merged with J.K.T.S.

Without wishing to tempt fate, this seems to have been one of the easiest events preparation-wise that I've had! The restoration of the Courier (an ex-John Kipping delivery van) was completed in 2009. Since then I've spent the odd weekend tinkering and tweeking to make life easier - fitting an overdrive being the highest priority!

Good luck to all the crews taking part - here's to a safe and successful event!

Further details at : club.triumph.org.uk

That's it for now, we hope you enjoy reading the latest newsletter. As usual, I will endeavour to send out regular newsletters, but I fear they won't be as regular as I hope!

David and all the Team at Canley Classics.

http://www.canleyclassics.com

The new website has now been running for just over 6 months as I'm sure you've noticed! It's turned out to be a massive project, fresh content is being added every day with no end in sight!

The aim is to have the most comprehensive Triumph website/database on the internet with not just catalogue pages but lots of archive and reference material. Unfortunately this plan came to a grinding halt when our faithful (and overworked!) scanner recently died, putting a stop to museum page updates. Now we've invested in a nice shiney new one we can begin uploading various paper documents and archive material that we think may be of interest.

Our focus at the moment is the TR6, the catalogue is almost complete and we're looking at introducing a few new products. After that we'll be looking at late Vitesse and early Spitfire. The part number report thingy for the website says we currently list 16,989 part numbers and that there are 2,868 numbers still not assigned to a catalogue page!

http://www.canleyclassics.com/catalogue

Our website witchcraft person has been introducing lots of new ways for me to waste time and avoid doing proper work! This includes a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Now you can be sure to receive the very latest ramblings from Fillongley and connect with other like-minded Triumph folk.

http://www.facebook.com/canleyclassics

http://www.twitter.com/canleyclassics

Here is a great selection of videos that are Triumph related or about old cars in general. There's all sorts of stuff on there including old episodes of Top Gear, Life on Mars and period rally footage.

As ever, we'll be adding more as we find it. If you have any recommendations, get in touch! If you're interested or just want to avoid work for a couple of hours click the link below...

http://www.canleyclassics.com/youtube

While on the subject of websites, it's worth mentioning that we've revamped our Vintage Plates site - I bet most of you didn't even know we did them!

We can supply various styles or sizes for pre-1973 vehicles (white or silver letters on a black background), give us a call on the usual number or click the link below...

http://www.canleyclassics.com/vintage-plates

The long-suffering Atlas Van recently hit the limelight following a phone call from Terry Acreman of Classic Van and Pick-up magazine. The call rapidly turned into a day spent with Terry enthusiastically photographing and asking plenty of questions.

The Atlas is currently being given a well earned rest from being my daily driver. Since the last Round Britain, it has been a dependable and surprisingly reliable (if slow!) means of getting to and from work and 'doing the rounds' in and around Coventry visiting suppliers and machine shops - even survivng the snow last winter!

You can read the resulting article that appeared in the July issue by clicking the link below...

http://www.canleyclassics.com/in-search-of-the-atlas

We've just taken delivery of a fresh batch of alloy water pumps for 6 cylinder engines. We thought we may have to discontinue this product as the machine shop no longer wanted to make them in the quantities we need (a familiar problem - we can't justify mass-production for products like this but machine shops rely on volume to cover overheads...)

Once this batch is sold who knows if they'll ever be available again?

These pumps are less than half the weight of the original cast iron items and haved proved to be extremely reliable with their sealed-for-life bearings.

http://www.canleyclassics.com/alloywaterpumps

A small but important new product!

We've noticed a gradual decline in the quality of diff. mounting bolts available throughout the trade. The last lot we received were so bad we chucked them straight in the bin!

As a result we've arranged production of the bolts ourselves, made by a 'proper' ISO9002 registered fastner manufacturer.

The good news is that the better quality doesn't mean higher prices!

Price is unchanged at £5.94.

http://www.canleyclassics.com/136869

Another small thing that we've had remanufactured - proof that we're not just interested in the shiney stuff!

We used to have these little torsion springs manufactured by the thousand until the bloke that did them retired a couple of years ago. Trying to find another company that's interested in doing such (relatively) small production runs isn't easy but with a little persistence it's all payed off.

It's worth checking that the spring on your Herald/Vitesse isn't missing or broken. The original ones that have been there for 40 or 50 odd years will rust and eventually snap or lose their 'springiness' through fatigue.

http://www.canleyclassics.com/122392