[Healeys] Stamping on front and rear shroud

[I Erbs]

most likely it means that front and rear shrouds were matched to your car.
Jensen used numbers to keep body panels together. These may have been mass
produced assembly line cars, but there was a lot of hand fitting of panels.
Look up photos of the assembly line... Quite archaic by today's standards.
hell, they were archaic based on 1950s standards....

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Herbert Miller <hgmiller3 at qwest.net>wrote:

> While stripping the front and rear shrouds of my 1962 BT7 MK2 tri-card, I
> discovered a strange stamping. It's located in the center bottom of the
> trough that the bonnet fits into. It's a faint stamping of a circle, about
> a
> half inch in diameter with "JNSN" on the arc on one side, and "20" on the
> other side. (picture available on request). At first I thought this might
> be
> a speciation for the alloy, but a web search
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNSN#Commercial_vehicles
>
>  turns up the fact that one of the companies under the Jenson banner was
> known as JNSN.
>
> There is the same stamping on the rear shroud at the bottom center of the
> trough by the trunk latch.
>
> Has anyone seen a stamping like this and what does the "20" mean?
>
>
>
> Herb Miller
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