One of the problems with Piggot's book is that he concentrates entirely on
"home market", that is, UK models. The period in which the 4A/250/6 were
built was a time of much turmoil regarding safety regulations, and the
US was at the forefront of changing them quickly. That's why the US
cars have very different front turn signals from the UK cars (which
retained the TR4's beehive lenses for a long time), to pick jjust
one egregious example from his book.
There are, of course, things in his book that are just plain wrong - but
some of them are not mailiciously wrong, just narrow.
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