[Healeys] Hyphened badge (was: Looking for a 100/4 restoration project)

[Bob Spidell]

Hyphens cost money and the BMC beancounters had them removed. 




Per-- 

Thanks for your reply but I don't think that is it. Certainly at one point A-H was correct and somewhere along the way it changed so that all later cars lost the hyphen. I simply wonder why and am quite surprised that there is not a known explanation. 

Best--Michael Oritt 

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Per Schoerner < per at schoerner.se > wrote: 


Hi 
I have always thought that the unhyphened badges of, at least, MkIIs and MkIIIs, have been aftermarket , but maybe I'm mistaken. I have a worned out original badge on my MkII, with a hyphen, and a brand new unhyphened badge on the shelf. I hesitate to replace it, for origanality sakes. I'm not a 100 percent for originality, I have several things on my car that is not original, but I'm serious when it comes to badges. 

Per 

Michael Oritt skrev den 2015-01-29 02:42: 

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BTW, I still have never heard a credible explanation as to why the nose 
badges changed from "Austin-Healey" to "Austin Healey" without the 
hyphen. Someone once posited that a supplier furnished incorrect badges 
that were bought at a discount and the rest was history but that does 
not seem likley to me. 


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