[Healeys] front wing cut-out

J. Scott Morris jstmorris at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 9 10:40:54 MST 2008


Hello John;   You are quite right.   Although an official publication from BMC, I certainly would not take it as gospel.  We know that what should have happened on the production line and what actually happened tended to be two entirely different stories.  What is interesting is that at the bottom of the Austin Service Journal bulletin [A/421 dated August 11, 1961] for the BN1 & BN2 fender opening there is a note that it ... * Cancels article in Volume 26, Body, page 3 (dimensions revised).  Was this an indirect admission about their level of precision in publishing measurements ? J 
   
  Bulletin Date                 BN1      BN2                                    
  August 30, 1956            9          7 >
  August 11, 1960            9 =      9
   
  For your interest, a copy of A/421 is attached.
   
  --Scott Morris; Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; '60 MkI BN7 & '62 MkII BT7

John Harper <ah at jharper.demon.co.uk> wrote: << Dear Scott    It is interesting to note that BMC did not appear to be very precise themselves when it came to publishing measurement.  In Austin Service Journal - Volume 26 BODY 3 - dated August 30 1956 these measurements were given as 9" for BN1 and 7 3/4" for BN2.  These earlier measurements were a bit closer to the actual measurements but clearly were just a general indication to bring out the fact that the wings (fenders) were different. >>

J. Scott Morris - Keep Smiling, Murphy Lives
       
---------------------------------
Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail  

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of A421 Front Wings-100.pdf]


More information about the Healeys mailing list