[Healeys] bn

[Mike Sinclair]

Well, my TD had a compartment behind the seats that could be used as a seat,
provided you didn't have legs and such, and it was good weather.

Mike
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Peter Svilans
  To: healeys at autox.team.net
  Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 11:27 AM
  Subject: [Healeys] bn


  Further to the BN 4:

  The Healeys were no fools.  They did not see the addition of two shallow
  tractor seats as anything much different than a TR3 with a flat one-inch
foam
  pad behind the seats, and which was certainly not called a four seater.  So
it
  was a two seat tourer.

  Perhaps in 1959 the Austin lawyers got on their case saying "If we are
  marketing it as a four-seater, it had better be called one !"   In "The
Healey
  Story' Geoffrey says:
  "The Austin engineers could not comprehend that the vehicle was designed to
  carry a maximum of two adults plus two children.  In their book cars were
  two-seaters, four seaters, and cars to carry more than four people.  The
  Austin Road Test Department insisted that the car should be tested with
four
  adults squeezed on board like any of their other products.  As a result,
the
  rear springs had a higher rate than those on the four-cylinder cars".

  So maybe this unyielding attitude was responsible for the change to the "T"
  designation.

  Peter
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