[Healeys] lost parts

Jose Vicente Vargas jvvmusme at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 3 07:57:10 MDT 2011


This is why we love british cars so much.

A controversy never ends !!



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On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:39 AM, "David Porter" <frogeye at porterscustom.com> wrote:

> My history may be a bit sketchy, but what Ed is talking about, I think, is
> just prior to WWI the French company Hotchkiss moved their factory to the
UK
> so as not to get bombed out by the Germans. Their tooling was subsequently
> bought by Morris, who didn't bother to change the threading and that is why
> an MG TC (for instance)has 3 distinctly different thread pitches..
> If any of the historians out there can expand on this or correct me please
> feel free.
> dave
>
> frogeye at porterscustom.com
>
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