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Links to Hillman &
other Rootes Websites
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OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA INC


If you find any errors, or know some more good specific Rootes links (which are not easily found via these),
please follow this link to e-mail the HCCSA webmaster
Note: Most links to general providers have been recommended on the HillmanCars internet discussion group by
satisfied customers.  There is no "equal opportunity" policy for the 3 million companies who feel left out.  Tough luck.

Table of contents for sections below –
           Clubs, Associations, Groups, Registers
           Personal pages
           Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
           From the National Archives of Australia
           Non-British Hillman manufacturers
           Hillmans in the movies
           Old Rootes advertisements
           Good old info surrounded by modern adverts
           Scale model car vendors and collections
           Book and brochure vendors
           Storage tips for classic cars
           Metric–Imperial unit conversion
           Online manuals, bulletins & chassis no. references
           Parts and restoration


Clubs, Associations, Groups, Registers:
Federation of Historic Motoring Clubs SA Inc
Amongst other stuff, you can find:
Code Of Practice – Conditional Registration Scheme for
Historic Vehicles and Prescribed Left Hand Drive Vehicles

Hillman Owners Club of Australia  (New South Wales, Australia)

IMP Register Australia

Hillman Owners Club  (U.K.)

Hillman Avenger Club of Ireland

Humber Hillman Car Club of New Zealand
Don't go into the Gallery, or you'll lock up the whole website for an hour.

The Imp Club  (U.K.)

Singer Owners' Club  (U.K.)

Association of Singer Car Owners  (U.K.)

North American Singer Owners Club

Rootes Group Car Club of Victoria  (Australia)

Rootes Group Car Club Queeensland Inc
(Formerly the Humber Car Club of Queensland)

Rootes Club of Belgium

Rootes Danmark

Rootes Club Nederland

Rootes Car Club Norway

Rootes Car Club Sweden

The Association of Rootes Car Clubs  (U.K.)

Rootes Archive Centre  (U.K.)
Complete archives of the Rootes Engineering Dept.

The Supreme Sunbeam  (owners clubs of Queensland & South Australia)
Their old photos of Rootes factory at Fishermen's Bend in Melbourne
and Rootes paint color codes

Sunbeam Clubs' Rootes Group Club Directory

Sunbeam Car Club Of Victoria

Sunbeam Car Club Of New Zealand

Sunbeam Canada
"Home of the Rootes Group Canada"

Sunbeam Club Deutschland  (Germany)

Sunbeam Club de France

Classic Sunbeam & Rootes de France

Sunbeam Talbot Alpine Register (STAR)  (UK)

Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club  (UK)

Sunbeam Tiger Owners Club  (UK)

Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club of America

Tigers East / Alpines East  (eastern half USA)

Tigers United  –  links to Sunbeam Tiger Clubs

Sunbeam Tiger Owners Association  (USA)

e-mail to: Pacific Tiger Club   (western USA/Canada)
Actually an all-Rootes club (Sunbeams, Hillmans, Commers, ...).
Pacific Tiger Club  group at Yahoo

International Registry of Sunbeam Tigers

Sunbeam Rapier Owners Club  (UK)

Sunbeam Rapier Registry  (all of North America)

Avenger & Sunbeam Owners Club  (UK)

Post Vintage Humber Car Club  (UK)

Commer Club Nederland

Commer Connections  (NZ)
Howard Pettigrew's Commer Newsletter group.  Excellent info.

The Road Transport Fleet Data Society
Follow the links to various brand names (Hillman, Humber, Commer, ...)


Personal pages:
What's a Hillman?  (Martin DeWitt – USA)
continuing the late Doug Bragg's admired personal website

The Series Minx Pages  (Alan Miles – Richmond, B.C., Canada)

Rootes-Chrysler.co.uk  (Keith Adams, UK)

Ken Young  (N.S.W., Australia)

Rhuari Hannan's Hillmans  (Launceston, Tasmania, Australia)

Ian Hallett's Hillmans  (Orange, NSW, Australia)

Robin Jackman's Hillman Minxes and Humbers  (southern Victoria, Australia)

The Rootes Group  (David Pentland – Edinburgh, Scotland)

Andy's Hillman Home Page  (Andy Murkin – U.K.)

Larry Condie's Audax Minxes  (Palm Springs, California, USA)
Not much to see anymore

Dave Good's 1963 Hillman Super Minx Mk II  (UK)

1929 Hillman Fourteen & Hillman Straight 8  (Anthony Taylor – Brisbane, Queensland)
New and historic pictures, and original specification drawings in pdf format.

1935 Hillman Sixteen Saloon De Luxe  (Sotiris Sgouros – Athens, Greece)

The Hillman Hunter web pages of John F. McRae  (South Australia)

Colin McCormick's Hillman Avenger Site  (Plymouth, Devon, England)

Hillman advertising brochures in Phil Seed's Virtual Car Museum

Hillmans in Perϊ  (Javier Vidaurre Ch.)

Hillman, Sunbeam and Singer cars  (Clewits family – Groesbeek, The Netherlands)
Has a very long list of links.

Commer Cob  (Per Jacobsen – Norway)

Doug Lyle's cars  (California, USA)

Ken Dreger's restored Hillman Minx Series II  (California, USA)

David Garn's Singer Bantam Garage

Paul's Sunbeam Alpine Page  (Paul Heuer – Australia)

A Collection of Sunbeam-Talbots  (Bob Hamilton – Canada)

Sunbeam-Talbot Alpine Sports  (Bill Spear – USA)

Mark Olson's Classic Tiger Website

Hillman Imp – Poor man's Porsche 911  (Holland)

Frank Schoenberger's Imp Ute  (Queensland, Australia)

1961 Humber Super Snipe Series III  (Kev Warburton – Western Australia)
Excellent site.  Full details of his restoration project.  Lots of photos (interior and exterior).

Commer Q4 military mobile workshop  (REME Museum, Berkshire, U.K.)

Commer (Rootes-Lister) TS3 engine  (Peter & Rita Forbes)

Commer commercial vehicles  (Peter Quinn)

Cars of the Rootes Group  (T.J. Higgins)

Hillman Minx Series I  (Thomas <dusk(at)onvol.net> – Malta)
and other Hillmans

Dion Fluttert  (the Netherlands)

1936 Hillman Minx Magnificent  (Stefan & Mayke van den Oetelaar – the Netherlands)

Wizard Classics UK  (Peter Chadbund – Bucks, U.K.)


Hillman info in Wikipedia

        Wikipedia is a modern, free encyclopaedia with over 2 million articles including these:

                Hillman – a brief history

                Hillman models (index to pages for Avenger, Hunter, Husky, Imp, Minx, Paykan)

                Rootes – a brief history
                (contains links to Humber, Singer, Sunbeam, Talbot, Commer)


From the National Archives of Australia

        First, 2 samples of what can be found:
                Final assembly block of Rootes Ltd., Fishermans Bend (Port Melbourne), 1945
                Humber Super Snipe Mk IV in Redex Trial, 1959

        Here are some good searches you can perform via PhotoSearch at the National Archives
                Search for:  Rootes as All words
                Search for:  Roots A1200 as All words 
(yes, bad spelling)
                Search for:  L18545 as Image number 
(another Humber Super Snipe Mk IV)
                Search for:  Hillman as All words
                ("Location" refers to where the photo print is currently filed, not the subject matter).

        Also this c.1920 photo in the Pictures Collection.


Non-British Hillman manufacturers:
Official Paykan website  (Iran Khodro)
"Paykan" is the Farsi word for "arrow."

Tehran: The Paykan  (the Stanley Foundation)

Paykan jokes

Paykan entry in Wikipedia

Paykan production terminated on 15 May 2005, after a model run of 38 years:
Melbourne Age article
BBC News article
IranMania.com article

Paykan production line sold to Sudan (October 2006):
Inside Line article
Sudanese Online article
Sudan Development Program article

1953 Isuzu Hillman Minx  (Toyota Museum)

More about the Isuzu Hillman Minxes  (Andy Murkin)


Hillmans in the movies:
www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Hillman.html

When you've finished clicking on those thumbnail pictures, go to
the Home page and select Commer, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam, Talbot


Old Rootes advertisements – Lee Herman's MOPAR Page:
1967 Sunbeam Arrow

1967 Sunbeam Alpine V


Good old info surrounded by modern adverts:
"Hillman dreams come to fruition"   (Times Newspapers, New Zealand)
John & Jean Harris and their Hillman Minx Series IIIA convertible

1907 Hillman  (Fotos de Carros)

Motorbase  overview of the Hillman brand and every Hillman model

Motorbase  sorted by engine type, and includes other Rootes brands

British Motor Manufacturers 1894-1960, Hillman  (UK)

HillMan Motor Cars  (The Auto Channel)

Chrysler Europe, 1964-1985  (Allpar)
with several links to their histories of the various car models –
Hillman Avenger & Tiger, Plymouth Cricket, Chrysler Sunbeam, ...

Iranians love their beat-up Paykans
Newspaper article in Seattle Post-Intelligencer  (USA)

Paykan Taxis  Newspaper article in The Iranian (USA)

In Iran, the chariot of choice probably has no seatbelt
Newspaper article in The Monitor (USA)

Unique Cars and Parts: Hillman

Unique Cars and Parts: Sunbeam

Unique Cars and Parts: Lost Marques: Sunbeam

Unique Cars and Parts: Lost Marques: Talbot

Unique Cars and Parts: Humber Super Snipe

Classic and Sports Car: Sunbeam Rapier Series I-V

Picture of a 1964 Commer TS3 truck – 3 cylinder two stroke diesel
y2u.co.uk

Peter Harper – 25 November 1921 to 26 August 2003
Rootes Group rally driver during the 1950s and 1960s.
"His first Monte Carlo Rally was in 1950 in a Hillman Minx."

automarkhistory.com: Hillman (Russian language)

2006 closure of the Ryton factory; interview with ex-workers
(The Birmingham Post)

86 year old man sells his 1939 Hillman (Daily Mail, UK)

86 year old man sells his 1939 Hillman (Telegraph.co.uk)


Scale model car vendors and collections:
Corgi/Lledo/Vanguards  – manufacturer (Leicester, England)
Also search for Hillman while you're there.
Can be more expensive than the dealers, but sometimes has special prices.

Collectiques  – retailer (Canterbury, England)
Enter Hillman in the search field.

McLaren Models  – retailer (Falkirk, Scotland )

HobbyLink Japan  – retailer (Japan)
Tomica model (1:64) of the Isuzu Hillman Minx.  Also a red one.

Christian Decroly  – collector (Belgium)
Also click on the Hillman button at the bottom.


Book and brochure vendors:
Mail to Nairn Hindhaugh , Mountain Motor Books
P.O. Box 301, Coorparoo, Queensland, 4151, Australia.   Phone (07) 3397 6845
Automotive books, Workshop manuals, Technical books, Marque histories, Sales literature bought and sold.

Pitstop Bookshop  (Perth, Western Australia)
Motoring Books, DVDs, Videos & Workshop Manuals

Vintage Motorshop  bookshop (West Yorkshire, UK)
Scarce and collectable motoring and motor racing books

McLellan's Automotive Literature (Texas, USA)
Original Hillman brochures & booklets

AddALL  – search engine for used and out-of-print books

BookFinder.com  book search tool

Abebooks.com  book search tool


Storage tips for classic cars:
Long-Term Storage the Correct Way  ("DC Car Care" company)

Motorcycle Storage
Yes, a motorcycle has fuel, oil, an engine and bodywork.  All of these tips are relevant to cars.

Also refer to our Technical Tips page  – opinions from the internet discussion list

10 Tips for Long-Term Classic Car Storage  (BuyClassicCars.com)


Metric–Imperial unit conversion:
Science Made Simple, Inc.  (calculator)

OnlineConversion.com  (calculator)

Freien Universitδt Berlin  (calculator)

Download an excellent free calculator program for Windows XP or later :
Microsoft Calculator Plus
If that link no longer works, search for Calculator Plus at
http://www.microsoft.com/
Use of calculator after installing:  View –> Conversion


Online manuals, bulletins & chassis no.:
Rootes Service Bulletins  (T.J. Higgins)

Chassis Numbers for Rootes Passenger Cars  (T.J. Higgins/Chris McGovern)

Chassis Numbers for Series Minx & Husky

Al Savage's Hillman manuals
"The purpose isn't to make manuals available for distribution,
but to allow people to add notes to any manual's page"

Rootes 1725cc Series Light Car Range  (Workshop Manual)

Borg-Warner 35 automatic transmission
Cut-away views, exploded view and schematic diagram

Borg-Warner 35 automatic transmission  (almost 8 MB)
Borg Warner version of the workshop manual


Parts and restoration:
  Please note:  The suppliers mentioned below (and above) have been discussed by the HillmanCars Group or the former Hillman List – and (in most cases) were recommended by satisfied customers.  You might wish to read a Discussion Thread on this subject.
Nobody got into this list by recommending themselves.

Power Brakes (SA)  – (Adelaide, Australia)
Stainless steel sleeved hydraulic cylinders.
Has good "Installation Tips" information.

Disc Brakes Australia (dba)  – (Sydney, Australia)
New disk brake rotors and pads for Hunter, Arrow, Hustler.
Download "AUSTRALIAN CATALOGUE - DISC ROTORS"
– Hillman isn't in the index, but there's a very small listing

PowerTrack  – (UK)
Mail order only supplier of Lockheed & Girling brake & clutch components.
They also have steering & suspension parts.

Brake & Equipment Warehouse  – stainless steel re-sleeves  (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

White Post Restorations  – brass re-sleeves  (Virginia, USA)

Everything You Wanted to Know About Brake Plumbing,
but Were Afraid to Ask

Brakes – Technical Information FAQ  (Sierra Racing Products – Carson City, Nevada, USA)

Brake Fluid General Information  – from Penrite

General Guide to Oils and Greases  – from Penrite

Ryco Filters  (air, oil & fuel filters – Melbourne, Australia)
This is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for 1950s-1970s Rootes vehicles in Australia.

FRAM oil filters  (Conn., USA)

e-mail to Grippy Rubber Products
21 Brodie Street, Rydalmere, NSW 2116, Australia.
Phone (02) 9898 9688.   Fax (02) 9898 3636.

Scott's Old Auto Rubber  (Melbourne, Australia)
Select Hillman in the left column.

Spectrum Rubber and Panels  (NSW, Australia)
If you've disabled your Flash Player, this irritating website is unuseable.

Antique Tyres  (West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia)

Coker Tire  (Chattanooga, USA)
Vintage, antique and classic collector vehicle tires and wheels.

Ex-pressed Steel Panels  – body panel manufacturer (West Yorkshire, UK)

Rob Martel Enterprises Ltd.  (Barrie, Ontario, Canada)
Body panel manufacturer for Sunbeam Tiger and Alpine

e-mail to J W Classic Car Parts   (Jim Withers)
2 Lillypilly Lane, Kilsyth South, Victoria 3137, Australia.
Phone (03) 9762 6025.   Mobile phone 0411 088 342.
Jim is a member of the HillmanCars discussion group,
and has a reputation for being very friendly, helpful and affordable.

e-mail to Auto Spares Galore   (incorporating Hillman Spares and Repairs)
924 Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully, Victoria 3156, Australia.
Phone (03) 9758 3644.   Fax (03) 9758 9835.

RSP Australia (Rare Spares)  – parts manufacturer and supplier (Victoria, Australia)

Bowden Engine Parts  – parts supplier (Mangonui, Northland, New Zealand)
Good range of spares for lots of different makes.  Can get stuff on request.

C.R. Parts  – parts supplier (Bristol, UK)

Alpine West Midlands Ltd.  – parts supplier (West Midlands, UK)

Speedy Spares Services Ltd.  – parts supplier (East Sussex, UK)
Incorporating the former R.J.Grimes

Sunbeam Supreme  – Alpine & Tiger parts supplier (UK)

Reg Patten Engines  – Imp race engines (Surrey, UK)
Full catalog of Imp engine parts.

Impspeed  – Imp parts supplier (Lancashire, UK)
Specialising in the restoration, competition preparation and supply of parts for all Hillman Imp model variants.

RootesGroup.com  – cars and parts for sale (Isle of Sheppey in Kent, UK)

Speedograph Richfield Ltd  – gauges & cables (Nottingham, UK)

Rootes Post vintage Spares (Arnoud Malherbe) – Rootes parts supplier (Nederland)
Don't be fooled by the small webshop.  The warehouse is huge.

Import Auto Supply  – parts supplier (San Bernardino, California, USA)
run by Linden Malki, who is a member of the Hillman Cars group.
Always very friendly and helpful.  Tremendous technical knowledge.

Victoria British Ltd.  – Sunbeam parts supplier (Kansas, USA)

Sunbeam Specialties, Inc.  – Sunbeam Alpine & Tiger parts supplier (California, USA)

Classic Sunbeam Auto Parts  – Sunbeam Alpine & Tiger parts supplier (NY state, USA)

Obsolete Automotive  – (Ontario, Canada)
British sportscar restoration, maintenance, performance improvement

Moss Motors  – (CA and NJ, USA)
Parts for Jaguar, MG, Triumph, Austin Healey.
(Several brake parts for MG are identical to those for Hillman and Sunbeam)

Autobodystore.com
 body repairs, painting equipment and training videos (USA)

Kip Motor Company  – parts supplier (Texas, USA)
There have been some adverse customer reports about their prices and rubber products,
with moulds being made from shrunken original parts.  Click here to read more.

World Wide Auto Parts of Madison, Inc.  – general parts supplier (Madison WI, USA)
Peter is their Rootes parts specialist.

Robbins Auto Top Company  – convertible tops (Oxnard, California, USA)
Click on the "European and Japanese" pull-down,
then select Hillman Minx, Singer or Sunbeam from the list.

Classic and Vintage Bulbs  (Adelaide, South Australia)
Classic Car Lighting Specialists.  Well respected dealer and distributor.

Vintage Wiring Harness  (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia)

Auto Sparks classic vehicle wiring   (Nottingham, UK)
Properly designed for a wide range of British and European cars.   Looks original.

Painless Performance Products universal wiring harnesses   (Fort Worth, Texas, USA)

Spark-Plugs.co.uk  – (Chester CH1 3YB, UK)
Everything you need to know about spark plugs.  NGK, Denso, Champion, Bosch.
Model name decoder charts, brand cross-references, FAQ and more.

Pertronix ignition systems   (California, USA)

Unofficial Pertronix Page – testimony of a satisfied customer

Gower & Lee  – new carburettors, spares and rebuild service (Watford, UK)
and their index to exploded diagrams

Pierce Manifolds Inc.  – (Gilroy, California, USA)
and their index to Weber exploded views.
Distributor of Weber carburettors & linkages.  Intake manifold manufacturer.

JP Pistons  – pistons for old engines (Adelaide, Australia)
Many Hillman models listed (1930s-1970s), including oversize.  Also custom-made.

Crow Cams  – (Victoria, Australia)
Camshafts and valve train components, custom camshaft grinding

Delta Camshaft  – (Tacoma, Washington, USA)
Custom camshaft grinding & repairs.  Interesting technical info here.
They have numerous proven camshaft profiles for Sunbeam and Hillman cars.

Crane Cams  – (Daytona Beach, Florida, USA)
Performance camshafts and valve train components

POR-15  – rust preventive paint (New Jersey, USA)
Several products for different applications, including fuel tanks.

Car Console Supplies Pty Ltd.  – (Sydney, Australia)
Centre floor console for Hillman Hunter Safari.

Pearlcraft Steering Wheels  – (Victoria, Australia)
Steering wheel restoration service

Ricky Evans Motorsport (glass) Ltd.  – (Tamworth, Staffs, UK)
New windscreens for Rootes cars

Autocables  – cables for speedo, accelerator, etc. (Melbourne, Australia)
Also rear window shades, sun visors (above the windscreen), weather shields (for driver's window).

Lionel Otto Instruments  – (Queensland, Australia)
Automotive instrument restoration

Key Men  – (Monroe, NY, USA)
Key blanks for classic motor vehicles

British Car Keys  – (Ellicott City, MD, USA)

Assoc. of Rootes Car Clubs  – (Leafield, Oxon, England)
has a large stock of keys applicable to most Rootes vehicles

Andy Murkin's spares links

Doug Bragg / Martin DeWitt spares links

Sunbeam Clubs' spares links

 

and a special mention of the lowlife at SSLINK LIMITED in the UK.
Don't expect to get anything you ask for.
Instead, you'll get huge spam that will cost you extra download fees.
You've been warned!
 


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