[Healeys] 3000 Mk III cloisonne front badge

Fri Sep 16 09:43:52 MDT 2016

Chris
This is a key fob that came with my car from original owner.  It is ambla material with enclosure for keys with red felt.  I have never seen another and he said he got from dealer when he purchased the car. A few year back I did find another one on ebay but have never seen others beside the two I have. They are identical in construction with the exception of size. The  one with my car is slightly shorter in length and yes I   do use it regularly. 
Have you or does anyone have any insight on this accessory key fob since we are on the subject?
Ken

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> On Sep 16, 2016, at 1:10 AM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> Yes, I see the difference. 
> I've also got the modern repro A-H key ring, but my favorite is my Sprinzel key ring. My BJ8 was sold new by John Sprinzel (see http://www.myaustinhealey.com/john-sprinzel-healey.html )
> - so the Sprinzel key ring is authentic for the car, and an original. 
> 
> <image1.JPG>
> 
> Best
> Chris
> 
>> On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:56 AM, Ken Fleming <ahmg at aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Attached below is an original BJ 8 hardtop badge and one from key fob. Differences are the colors and spacing or no spacing between the words.
>> Ken
>> <image1.jpeg><image2.jpeg>
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Patrick. 
>>> Snap!
>>> I've got the one Wally Gates got when he went to Warwick. 
>>> It's pretty well used. 
>>> Mostly because Wal had this habit of driving the Healey home in summer, dropping his watch and wallet, and then walking fully clothed into his pool....
>>> He allowed me the same ritual back when I had a bugeye sprite
>>> Stuffs your leather key ring though!!
>>> 
>>> <image1.JPG>
>>> 
>>>> On 12 Sep 2016, at 5:32 PM, Patrick & Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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> 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 ...
>>>> 
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