Thanks John,
I appreciate your input and I also enjoyed looking at your website...your car
looks great.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: John A. Wise
To: Steve Ball ; triumphs@autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Another kind of birthday?
My certified copy of the factory record from British Motor Industry
Heritage Trust lists "Date of Build" as "February 1960 (not recorded)", and it
lists "Date of Despatch" as "19 February 1960". I'm just wondering what "date
of despatch" means? Could it be the date it left the factory? Or the date it
left the dock on the ship? I don't have a clue, but either way it seems like
an important date for this LBC, and a good excuse to uncork the single malt
for a "Happy 45th Birthday" toast.
I wondered the same thing. My assumption has been that it took a number of
days to build the car. I think I read somewhere that the body was built in a
different location and trucked in for final assembly. Thus I also assumed that
the "despatched date" was the day it actually left the factory.
John
John A. Wise, Ph.D., CPE
5483 W Potter Dr
Glendale, AZ 85308
(+1)(623)376-9632
Wise@erau.edu
1960 TR3A TS80422L
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