Raumer's Heavy Vehicles - Unipower Bodywork

I'll be putting some of the history in our ownership of each of them and some more details. A couple of photos of the Kraz in action at Dorset, the one with the load is my photo, the other two taken by friends and show it towing the Scammells.

Awesome thread and fantastic trucks! However- I am still waiting to see your collection of girlfriends you mentioned at the beginning?

The Unipower being from a small scale manufacturer uses lots of components from other vehicles. I'm trying to identify what the door handles are from. I don't have keys for the door handles and would like to replace with ones that work. Photos of the door handles below, the first photo shows it mounted to the vehicle.

I've seen similar handles that have a boss with 2 bolt holes (Mk1 mini etc...) but not this type where there is a tab to locate outer of the door handle (the bit circled in red). Can anyone identify them or suggest something that might work instead?


On vehicle complete with recessed surround

In days of yore in Birmingham, each Police Division had a SWB Land Rover, whose job was primarily keeping the arterial roads into the City clear and traffic running freely. In addition the vehicles were also used to snatch in stolen vehicles, or one used in crimes, and which required the attention of Scene of Crime Officers (SOCO).
The Land Rovers used to carry bucket loads of car keys, which were all sorted into number and letter type. There weren't many cars that couldn't be sorted out. That is other than ones such as Rolls Royce's, etc... which had Yale Type door locks.
The advent of steering locks changed all that though and the buckets of keys were no longer.
Some Officers had a personal selection of car keys, usually courtesy of some nefarious character, who willing donated them to the greater cause. Many of these keys had been filed down to very slim profiles and a bit of giggle with them in a door/ignition lock would soon have them working.
Re the present problem, if you could find a blank key that will slide into the lock, and then cover it with soot from a smokey candle, by inserting the sooty blank into the lock and turning, this will mark the areas which require filing down. Long protracted job, but you will succeed eventually.

Could the number stamped on the square shaft be a key number??

They look like standard handles out of the coachbuilder’s catalogue. Austin/Morris/BMC FG ones are similar.

Try this company, by sending photograph, etc...

www.vintagecarparts.co.uk/categories/vintage-car-parts-coachfittings-and-body-parts-handle-exterior

That's interesting. The collar does indeed rotate round the handle shaft. Mine doesn't have a grub screw, possibly the end of a large diameter pin but no easy way to get it out.

When lockdown is over I'll see if I can get a VW door handle to modify. It's the only type suggested to me that makes do without the two bolt mounting collar.

Look at www.westonbodyhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/WBH-Catalogue-2018-compressedv2.pdf

Page B4

In fact look through the whole of Section B.