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RE: Correction on Re: Specs. please?

To: tjsouz@epix.net, morgans@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Correction on Re: Specs. please?
From: Gerry Willburn <Gerry.Willburn@trw.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 07:42:22 -0700
Tony,

Not enough time or space for all of that.

Gerry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tjsouz@epix.net [SMTP:tjsouz@epix.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 1999 10:09 AM
> To:   morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: Correction on Re: Specs. please?
> 
> Jack McNaughton wrote:
> > 
> > Don't believe everything you read in a book! 
> 
> Amen, John!
> 
> I think Ken Hill probably wrote that the new 4/4 was "re-engined".  The
> earlier 4-4, as it was then called, had the Coventry Climax and the
> Standard Special engines.  The Series II  4/4 was re-engined with a Ford
> powerplant.  (Many will chuckle over the idea of "power" in that term.)
> 
> We could start a whole new thread of mistakes in Morgan publications. 
> It could be informative as well as fun.  Looking through "Morgan the
> Last Survivor" by Chris Harvey I found several pictures that were
> mislabeled, especially in the sections on early cars.  For instance the
> picture at the bottom right of page 89 is a of a +4 not a Series I. 
> Likewise the picture at the top right of page 91 is of the same +4, not
> a Series I 4-4.  Did any +4's have seats like those on the bottom of
> page 107?  These errors are particularly lamentable in a section titled
> "Contemporary Road Testers' Reports.
> 
> So, what say we start a thread labelled ERRATA.
> 
> Regards to all,
> Tony Souza

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