On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Laura Gharazeddine wrote:
>
> > I followed a Triumph link to an Italian Spitfire
> > website. It was in Italian, but if my crude
> > translation is correct, they did say that the M stands
> > for Michelotti.
>
> I'm fluent in Italian, but I couldn't get that site to open for
>me...(figurati!) but, it does seem to me that I've heard that the M was for
>Michelotti.
>
> I saw a Michelotti at the Petersen Automotive Musuem this past summer-cute
>little one off open car with a wicker basket interior! The isignia's were all
>Michelotti-and it seems to me that the "M"s were the same as the M on the
>bonnet latches. In fact, I noticed rith off that the script on the badges was
>pretty much like the script on the round tails.
>
> Laura G.
>
>
> Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
>
I saw the article mentioning it stood for Michelotti, I wondered at the
time as I remember seeing once it stood for Merlin and that merlin
supplied the latches.
Unfortunately, I am not sure of the source. It seems like it was on the
Triumph list.
Roger Elliott
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