[Healeys] 100 Engine Numbers

Michael Salter michaelsalter at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 14:38:42 MST 2019


That's really weird Pat.
As I'm sure you know it was common practice to put an H in the engine
number to indicate "High compression" but I've never encountered that with
the 100.
Is there any pattern with respect to "Sold new in AUS"?

M

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 4:02 PM Patrick & Caroline Quinn, <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>
wrote:

> Thank you Bill
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> It remains a mystery. I have 623 BN1s and BN2s in Australia on my register
> and of these 71 have engine numbers starting with H1B.
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> There doesn’t appear to be any pattern and they are spread over BN1 and
> BN2s.
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> Hoo Roo
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Blue Mountains, Australia
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> (Where the bush is still burning)
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> *From:* Bill Kollar [mailto:wkollar at nycap.rr.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, 8 December 2019 2:05 AM
> *To:* John Harper; Patrick & Caroline Quinn
> *Cc:* Forum
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] 100 Engine Numbers
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> *The engine in my 54 BN1 is a 1B******M*
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> *I have no idea if this is the original engine (It was about 10 years old
> when I bought it) but the car was registered here in NY using that engine
> number.*
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> On 12/6/2019 9:06 AM, John Harper wrote:
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> Patrick
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> I have never seen an engine number H1B. Possibly somebody was supplying
> reconditioning engines but genine BMC engines were marked SRB-19 and then a
> short number
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> Best regards
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> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 22:33, Patrick & Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>
> wrote:
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> Hello
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> The bulk of the engines fitted to the Austin-Healey 100 BN1 and BN2 start
> with 1B, but some start with the H1B.
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> Would anyone know?
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> Thanks
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Blue Mountains, Australia
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