Re: The long road back TR3 marking on engine

[Bill & Skip Pugh <anabil@caltel.com>]

At 9:04 AM -0500 11/4/00, David Massey wrote:
>Message text written by Joe Curry
>>I wonder if Ferguson Tractor engines have "Tractor" painted on the
>sides!!!
>
>Maybe that was Standard Triumph's way of ensuring that they didn't get
>mixed up! :)
><
>
>Don't forget Triumph used the same basic engine in the Vangard which were
>built on the same line.  It is more likely that the differentiation is
>TR3/Vangard.
>
>Dave

Dave hit it right on the nose...according to Piggott's book, the 
TR2/3 marking was used to differntiate from the Vangard blocks, which 
by the way also had a different location for the Oil dipstick hole 
(in front of the Distributor for the TRs and behind for the Vangaurds)



-- 
Bill Pugh
aka Wily
1957 TR-3
aka Casper
TS16765L