Too easy to identify?

By Stuart Tallack: Is the attached photo too easy to identify? It is more than enough for anyone who has sat in the driving seat of one. Look at the instrument on the left of the photograph. It is the distinctive Lancia petrol gauge. When you press a small button on the dash, lights on the gauge indicate the level of the petrol. Most of the gauges no longer work because of the multiplicity of little wires and the passage of the years. My brother's face loomed up as a reflection when I had a camera in my hand to picture something else. The pressed tin dashboard is elegantly simple in concept like the rest of the car, though sometimes bafflingly complex in execution also like the rest of the car, a 1937 Lancia Aprilia.
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martedì luglio 23rd, 2013

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31 Luglio 2013, 08:35

What's the problem?
I said that car has gauges specific for the UK market, so it's a genuine UK market car and not an Italian car imported after the WWII and refitted.

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27 Luglio 2013, 08:31

A closer look at the supplied photo and a trip to my car garage to check my cars reveals that Noel is correct. The other gauges should be Metron, although the parts book tells a Jaeger speedo was available, presumably MPH?.

Andrew Cox

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27 Luglio 2013, 05:36

I think Noeel's point is that the only difference between the 1st series standard gauges is that the English market gauges measure 9 gallons while the Metric equivalent reads 45 litres . They are both Metron and are otherwise identical.
Andrew Cox

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26 Luglio 2013, 22:51

PG. Not sure which page of which edition of the manual you are referring to, maybe you could point it out to me?
As far as Iâ€™m aware all 1st series Aprilia berlinas with the round instruments (up to construction number 5489) have a fuel gauge made by ISOS.I.F., with either a metric or imperial face. They also made the fuel tank sender unit. Of the other gauges, the clock & oil pressure are Metron, the speedometer could be either Metron or Jaeger. Iâ€™ve never see a Metron fuel gauge.
Stuart I do like the photo.

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26 Luglio 2013, 16:03

Noel, see the brand on the gauge. The Italian gauges of the I series (are we talking about a 1937 car or not?) were produced by Metron only.
If you don't believe me check on the manual....

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26 Luglio 2013, 04:45

The only difference with the round Italian gauge is the face is metric, in litres. All later cars, from mid 1938, had a different rectangular instrument panel, as did some earlier Lusso models.

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25 Luglio 2013, 11:03

By the way, that petrol gauge is specific for the UK market, the Italian one is different.

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25 Luglio 2013, 09:16

Unlikely story but possibly true. Henry Ford was a firm believer in transverse leafsprings and he must have been pleased that superior roadholding could be archieved with this.
The Aprilia rear suspension uses a combination of torsion bars and a transverse leafspring.

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24 Luglio 2013, 09:51

The Aprilia was a favourite of racing drivers and motoring journalists, and a mainstay of postwar Italian motorsport. Nick Geogano described it as "the exemplar of European pre-war light car design". Alec Issigonis owned one pre WW2 .but my favorite Aprilia anecdote involves the staff at the 1936 Paris Salon discovering an elderly American lying under the rear of an Aprilia after closing time, when quizzed on what he was doing, Henry Ford's retort was that "it was the only thing worth looking at"

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