John,
As I stated in my previous emails on this subject, the metal oval plate in
the foot well is absolutely correct, and is well documented by the Concours
Committee; myself, Roger Moment and Kent Lacy. This was done for a short
period of time fro the late Fall of '54 through at least mid Jan. '55.
John, if your interested for your records, I can send you a photo of the
plate from a one owner car from new in late '54 here in southern
California. I personally know this car and its 90+ year old owner. Also
Kent lacy ownes a 5K original mile car that is unrestored with the oval
plate in the left foot well.
Also, it also well documented that the Austin of England boot badge was used
on 100s with batch number 5179 as late as early/mid Jan. '55.
Cheers,
Curt
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:31 AM, John Harper <ah@jharper.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Peter
>
> It would help if we knew the batch and body number. Do you have this? If it
> were a direct export to Australia then we might be able to match it up with
> other Australian deliveries.
>
> This looks very much like a 100 with a body much earlier than November
> 1954. For example are the bonnet or boot lid steel or aluminium?
>
> An oval plate in the footwell does not sound right to me. I would have
> expected a rectangular ivorine plate.
>
> Regards
>
>
>> I've been doing a bit of work recently on a BN1 bought by an acquaintance
>> here
>> in Brisbane. The car is chassis no. BN1/221569, and the Heritage
>> certificate
>> puts it as a Nov 1954 build. It has the oval, metal chassis plate attached
>> to
>> the LH footwell trim panel which, according to Anderson & Moment's book,
>> is
>> right for that period. However, the car has no reflector pods on the rear
>> shroud, nor any evidence of them being fitted. Also it has the "Austin of
>> England" rather than "Austin Healey" boot badge. Both of these features
>> should, according to the restoration book, be present on a Nov 1954 car.
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Peter Linn
>> Brisbane Oz
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