[Healeys] 100/6 engines with prefix 26C

[Patrick and Caroline Quinn]

G'day Gergo

 

The Wolseley 25HP is a pre WW2 car. The C-series engine was designed and
built by Morris Engines (for BMC) as their mainstay engine during the early
1950s. It was fitted to the majority of the BMC marques including Austin,
Morris, Wolseley, Riley, Van Den Plas and Austin-Healey.

 

Depending on what marque an engine was destined for, dictated what prefix it
received. The engine in my car was taken from the engine production line
during a run of engines for Wolseleys, taken to the DHMC for their
experimental work and fitted to my car.

 

Hoo Roo

 

Patrick Quinn

Sydney, Australia

 

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From: Austin Healey [mailto:pajtamuvek at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 4 December 2010 11:26 PM
To: Patrick and Caroline Quinn
Cc: Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com; Healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100/6 engines with prefix 26C

 

Hi,

 

Is this 2.6 "Wolseley" engine the same as the one fitted to the Wolseley
25HPs?

 

Gergo

2010/12/4 Patrick and Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>

G'day Josef

In my list of Austin-Healeys in Australia there are 27 100/6 BN4s with
engine numbers starting with 26C out of a total of 158 cars (100/6).

In my car (BN3/1) the engine number starts with C26W which stands for
C-series, 2.6 litre and W-Wolseley.

It is a very early engine supplied by BMC to the Donald Healey Motor Company
to see how it would fit into the Austin-Healey. As we know that once fitted,
it provided inferior performance than the 2.6 litre 4-cylinder. That was
fixed by working the cylinder head and fitting triple dual-throat DU-6 SUs.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia


-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com
Sent: Saturday, 4 December 2010 7:36 PM
To: Healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] 100/6 engines with prefix 26C

Here`s a question to the 100/6 experts.
Some 100/6 cars were fitted with engines prefix  26C, not 1C-H or 26D.
Does anyone know about them.  We have about 10 on the UK register and we
couldn`t find anything in the books about them.
Would be great to have an answer on this.

Josef Eckert
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