Some 1940s British engineering

It’s a boring blip (rustycrapp will recognise it) but if you’re prepared to stick with it, there’s some interesting automotive history and bovine medicine.
The previous owner of our farm, Gordon, was somewhat eccentric. One of his idiosyncrasies was acquiring ‘40s British cars on their last legs but with  some rego and parking them in the back paddock when the rego expired and replacing them with a similar clunker. We inherited 14 Hillmans, Vauxhalls, Vanguards, Austins etc.
In 1973, one of our steers suddenly died  - being a young enthusiastic veterinary student, I carried out an autopsy and sent samples of liver and kidney to the laboratory. AMK49 and probably davidc will already have diagnosed the cause of death but for anybody else, it was lead poisoning. The steer had been drinking rain water accumulating on the batteries of the old cars and licking the terminals.
I offered to take the cars to the tip one at a time but our neighbour John H arrived with his dozer, dug a gigantic hole and buried the lot (and crushed them).
This rear end assembly must have escaped the interment! If anybody needs spare parts for their 1944 Hillman Minx, I know where to start digging.