[Healeys] Louvered 100 bonnet

Curt/Nancy Arndt cnaarndt at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 08:51:40 MST 2009


Greg,

I don't know for certain but think about it for a moment, a HUGE expense to
produce a multiple louvered die for an inexpensive, extremely limited
production car.  Just over 1,000 bonnets louvered.

This was after all England just after the war.

Cheers

Curt

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Greg Lemon <glemon at neb.rr.com> wrote:

> Years ago I watched a History Channel Special on the Morgan, they showed
> how they made the louvered bonnets, pressing the louvers in one by one by
> hand, it looked like they basically eyeballed the placement and alignment of
> the louvers, does anyone know if the factory M louvers were made in a
> similar manner, or did they have a big multiple louver stamping machine?
>
> Just curious, Greg Lemon


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