[Healeys] 3000 Mk III cloisonne front badge

Mon Sep 12 07:29:04 MDT 2016

I also have one of those key rings and to be honest I have always 
thought that it was some kind of a fraud been made from an original 
Austin-Healey key ring.
Kees Oudesluijs

Op 12-9-2016 om 9:32 schreef Patrick & Caroline Quinn:
>
> Hello
>
> Way back in 1975 when I visited the Donald Healey Motor Company in 
> Warwick I was given a key ring amongst other bits and pieces. It 
> looked like the normal keyring that is still being produced today with 
> the Union Jack on the top of the words “Donald Healey Motor CoLtd”. 
> Some little time later I realised that instead of Austin-Healey at the 
> top is Jensen-Healey in the same script as the Austin-Healey badge. 
> Yes it is hyphenated.
>
> In the 1974 book ‘The Jensen-Healey Stories’ by Peter Browning and 
> John Blunsden it is also hyphenated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick Quinn
>
> Blue Mountains
>
> Australia
>
> *From:*Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *Chris Dimmock
> *Sent:* Monday, 12 September 2016 4:01 PM
> *To:* Michael Oritt
> *Cc:* Austin Healey
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] 3000 Mk III cloisonne front badge
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <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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