[Healeys] Stamping on front and rear shroud

[Mike Tobin]

My 62`s shrouds have the same stamps.  Hand made? Yeah.  Having just
finished refurbing the chassis I can point out all places that were
hammered into place.  I picture a bloke named Trevor walking around each
chassis as it comes along and administering the blows to the appropriate
spots with a large rawhide mallet.  At least in in this environment my
ratty welds don't look out of place.
Cheers,
Mike Tobin
Pepperell, MA
On Sep 17, 2013 1:56 PM, "I Erbs" <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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