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Thanks for your reply , I have noticed that the hunting is worse when the fuel tank is low . The operating position on an Allen Scythe isn’t the best , don’t know how familiar you are with the machine ,the engine is tilted to the output shaft side when mowing and the fuel tank is barely higher than the carb .I will take the carb off and thoroughly clean it out just in case something is blocked . The low speed jet is fine , the engine starts first pull of the cord when warm and fires on choke when cold but the choke has to be opened immediately for the engine to keep running . Low jet is set at 1.75 turns out . high speed jet is set 2 turns out .

So I retired in 2011 and built a new shed to house the Carlton to make space for all the bits that I would need to remove from the Gloria to gain access to all the rotten wood. The correct way would be to remove the aluminium skin from the ash frame and repair the frame but I just don't have the skills to undertake such a marathon job as it would have entailed removing hundreds of panel pins, prising the aluminium from the frame and then replacing it with all the panel beating and then a full respray. By this time my partner Alison was in poor health and required more and more help around the house until she passed away in 2016. I now needed a project, rather than just want one, and set to planning how I was going to achieve it without everything going belly up. I am not very skilled at carpentry so to make life easier I purchased a few woodworking tools, small band saw, bench sander, planer-thicknesser, dremel, grinder, multi tool, router and a rip-snorter. I already had a small bench saw and my brother in law had one with an adjustable table so I thought I would be able to make all the bits I needed. A neighbour who had worked in the lumber business for many years gave me some lengths of ash trees that he had cut several years earlier and I thought I was on my way but after making a couple of simple flat pieces that bolt to the chassis (4" x 1 1/8" x 12") I came out the following day to find them curled like bananas. Obviously you need to slice your timber and leave it to dry out for several years before it can be used and I wasn't about to wait for this lot to dry out. Found a sawmill beside Huntly that had some 1" and 2" thick well seasoned ash slabs about 10 Ft x 2 Ft and went off to pick them up, should have taken about an hour but got back 4 hours later as the 85 year old owner of the mill was also a Jaguar enthusiast and about 3 hours were spent talking cars and looking round his Series 3 V12 E Type. I had also done some research in to what glue should be used when assembling the frame and found so many different opinions that I ended up using Araldite 2 pack epoxy (the long setting time type). Since I was going to be working in some very tight spaces, using standard slotted head wood screws did not appeal as I would have found it difficult to work even the shortest screw driver so I opted to use torx headed stainless steel screws and a torx bit that I could drive with a small 1/4" drive ratchet or a 10mm ratchet ring key. I managed to get 200 off each 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50 an 60 mm screws for under £100 and bought about 12 double syringe packs of the araldite so that I didn't have an open pack sitting for weeks and slowly going hard. A few test samples of ash were cut and either screwed or glued together and pulled apart to confirm that these methods were going to be successful. This is the offcut of the 1" ash that i was left with.

Further progress on the Bolens HT snow plow replica. In this video, we do more welding on the frame and finish the mount for the swivel

The Scimitar was a great motor, had a rebuilt mildly tuned 3.1 litre V6 when I bought it but you had to watch it on a wet road. Back to the Gloria, I inherited it after my father died in 2003 and decided to get it back on the road in his memory. I joined the Pre 1940 Triumph Owners Club and discovered that they were getting hard to find essential components re-manufactured and were reconditioning brake master and wheel cylinders by boring them out and pressing in stainless steel sleeves and reassembling with new seals and springs. Having sold the Scimitar in 2005 there was some spare cash available and I spent most of it on new shiny bits for the Gloria - master cylinder, 4 wheel cylinders, 8 brake shoes, new front and rear splined hubs with new spinners, new wheel bearings, new water pump, new water manifold, new head gasket and a reconditioned steering box. First on was the master cylinder I then fitted new wheel bearings and the splined hubs followed by the wheel cylinders and brake shoes to the back axle and thought I would give the inner wheel arches a bit of clean and maybe a coat of paint while I had the wheels off. As we all know, that is the moment you find all of the horrors hiding under the mud and grime I had that sinking feeling and thought that this just might be the end of the old car. I decided to dig a bit further by removing the boot lid for a better look and it just got worse The wooden body support to the chassis was sinking, the plywood boot floor was warped and separating and the boot hinge brackets were nearly falling away and any exposed timber that I prodded seemed to be rotten. A few rums and fags later it became obvious that what was going to be a fairly straightforward mechanical 'restoration' had turned in to a nightmare and was going to need a lot of time and thought or professional help was needed. In the end it was decided that this was to become a retirement project for 2011 as it was going to need all my concentration and a hell of a lot of time.