[Healeys] 3000 Mk III cloisonne front badge

[Chris Dimmock]

This is interesting trivia!
I've never seen an Austin Healey Sprite (certainly 948's and 1100's) with a hyphen on their bonnet badges. But my collection of Sprite owners handbooks, special tuning, schedule of workshop hours etc handbooks all have the hyphen.  But there's no hyphen on the cover of the Workshop manuals....
I just think it's a BMC consistency control issue.......
I also had a very quick look at some trademark databases. The most recent "Austin Healey" and "Austin-Healey" trademark holders - British Motor Heritage Limited / Nanjing / SAIC - appear to have/ had both variants as registered trademarks at various times. 
So I'm guessing it's a bigger deal to us than it ever was to Austin / BMC - they probably had both variants trademarked too, so it didn't matter. 
So - was Jensen Healey always hyphenated or not?? 
;-)
Chris


> On 12 Sep 2016, at 9:10 AM, Michael Oritt <michael.oritt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I replied just a few minutes ago to Steve Byer's message I did not view the full string of messages and I see fromold posts attached to Ed Kaler's message/site that I have been asking this same question since 2001--which is pretty interesting given that I often tend to forget what seemed important just a few minutes earlier.
> 
> In any case though I know this issue hardly rises to the level of important it is a curious occurrence.  I can understand how badges got used out of sequence, but since the name "Austin'Healey" was an established brand and probably protected under UK and/or worldwide patent-trademark laws it makes me wonder why BMC would have intentionally changed the name of its product, albeit only by the omission of a dash.
> 
> Best--Michael Oritt
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Bob Haskell <rchaskell at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Bob,
>> 
>> Mk II
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Bob Haskell
>> AHCA 3000 MkI registrar
>> http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php
>> 
>>> On 09/11/2016 12:51 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
>>> Is a BJ7 a "Mark III" or a "Mark II?"
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 9/11/2016 8:59 AM, Oudesluys wrote:
>>>> Knowing Jensen, they could have used either badge in the change-over
>>>> period. They used up old stock and or used what ever was at hand.
>>>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Op 11-9-2016 om 17:09 schreef BJ8Healeys:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The BJ7 badge had "Austin-Healey", and the BJ8 badge has it without
>>>>> the hyphen.   There is only one part number in the BMC parts list for
>>>>> the BJ7 badge, and one for BJ8, so only empirical data would identify
>>>>> if there was a change point in the middle of the models.  Previous
>>>>> discussions didn't surface anyone who had a BJ7 badge without the
>>>>> hyphen, or a BJ8 badge with it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Steve Byers
>>>>> 
>>>>> HBJ8L/36666
>>>>> 
>>>>> BJ8 Registry
>>>>> 
>>>>> AHCA Delegate at Large
>>>>> 
>>>>> Havelock, NC
>>>>> 
>>>>> *From:*Michael Oritt [mailto:michael.oritt at gmail.com]
>>>>> *Sent:* Sunday, September 11, 2016 10:44 AM
>>>>> *To:* Gary R. Brierton
>>>>> *Cc:* BJ8Healeys; Healeys
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] 3000 Mk III cloisonne front badge
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now that we are all focused on the badge I would like to put out a
>>>>> question--one that I have asked before and never received what seemed
>>>>> to have been a definitive answer:
>>>>> 
>>>>> How and when did "Austin-Healey" as written on the earlier badges
>>>>> become "Austin Healey" as was done on the badges for later cars?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best--Michael Oritt
>>> 
>>> 
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