Marina gearbox production

[ScreamingLordStokes]

Came across this on the Austin Memories site:

http://www.austinmemories.com/styled-76/index.html

Wish they could make me a new one now!

[JubileeNut]

Their medical room is better staffed than the NHS right now!
Wonder how many components were a bit off when John Rotherham was having a bad day at work?

[marina12]

Didn’t know first was synchro; had to double declutch if selected on the move? Thanks

[JoshWard]

Sounds like you had dodgy synchro. Usually it seems the springs on second gear are the first to give way. I've had many which have crunched going into second! I wonder if Marina gearbox production started just before the facilities (or the tooling?) were completely finished. My J reg has Herald gear ratios.

[marina12]

Thanks and probably was: second hand boxes. Didn’t the reverse idler have something to do with first gear?

[ScreamingLordStokes]

Great post. Wish they could make me a new one now!