Yesterday I drove to Southampton, well nearby, to Tudor Wheels and met the owner, Richard.  He was fabulous and went into great detail about the wheels, their history and their condition.  I took the seven wheels I had and as luck would have it two were good for the front, two for the rear and one for a spare, perfect.  The two that were fit only for the bin were not the two I would have predicted so I felt pleased that I went to see him.  It was also a lovely drive there and back in our new(ish) car with the roof down.

Today I started back on the seat back with renewed vigour.  I started by cutting a wider centre channel into the seat foam which was surprisingly tricky to do.

Having got the channel wide enough I started tithing about how the wiring would work so I fitted the bolts to the frame and then added the seat back to work out the best way.  I am not yet convinced but I do have a route in mind that I think will work.  It was quite nice to see the back on the base with the base cushion in place.

I decided I needed to extend the wires for the seat heating element.

I glued the rear of the seat back and added the laver of felt, well padding that I had bought for the job.  I feel very conscious that I don't really know what I am doing and that if I had this time again I would have bought a more study type of material, oh well.

Once attached to the back I pulled it round and covered the edges of the foam for the seat back.

I then glued the heater element in place.








































I then fitted the seat cover and pushed and pulled it around until I was reasonably happy with it before gluing the centre section of the cover.

I also stapled the rear of the seat cover using my newly acquired 6mm staples; this felt very scary.

So, half glued and partially stapled.  It looks good to me though.  Given my time again I may have preferred not to have the gather clearly visible on the right hand corner of the fluted section, oh well.  It looks better than it did last week.