I can see clearly now the rain is gone.....

After a bit of a quest, I have managed to find some new windscreen wipers that match the old ones. With flat windscreens, GGs used the older style of flat bales without the built in spring mechanism that modern wipers have to keep the blade in contact with curved windscreens. They seem to be quite hard to get these days - after quite a bit of web searching, I found that Britax / PSV Wypers still make them and as they sell to trade only, I then tracked down a specialist 'screenwiper systems' company called Transwipers in Worcester. Result, for not much more than modern wipers, a pair of classic wipers which are far more suitable and look the part! Oh, and which move water off the windscreen!