Starting Handles

[fourteen85]

I guess this might have been better in motoring, Watching a re run of the last series of All Creatures Great and Small, James had to use a starting handle on his car, what was the last car in the UK to have this facility? i think i recall Morris Minors having them in the early 1970's , would there have been any later than this time?

[satprof]

Dr Google tells me that this would have been in 1998, with the Lada Niva.

(Cue: Lada jokes.)

[fourteen85]

Thank you

[barry1010]

The Lada Niva is still in production, minus the crank handle, but although badged Lada the company is now owned by Renault

[Atheist]

Morris Minors did have them, although maybe not later models.

[barry1010]

The last Morris Minor was built in 1970

[Canary42]

But who remembers using one ?

I do, on the old Vauxhall Wyvern our family ran in the early Sixties.

[davebro]

Canary - please change your bleedin awful avatar!

[gulliver1]

Although not a UK car I would think . LADA.

[aelmpvw]

my morris minor in the 60s had a starting handle but was so reliable it was never used

[davebro]

I had several cars with duff batteries. No starting handle - I used to park at the top of a hill so I could get an easy "bump" start!

[bhg481]

I used one on my first car - 1953 Rover 75.

[Hopkirk]

My motorbike in the 70s had a kick starter. I don't think they even fit those any more.

(That's a cue for everyone to tell me I'm wrong)

[Buenchico]

Back in 2008, at least one AB member still had a car with a starting handle:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question589528.html

[Hopkirk]

But that was a 2cv, so hardly ranks as a car.