[Healeys] Number of Center-change BN7s

[Peter Dzwig]

All,

just a couple of notes:

I saw this recently (NFI, I am just on their list having known Bill
Rawles and Andrew Cluett for about 20 years!)


<https://rawlesmotorsport.co.uk/CarSales/austin-healey-3000-mkii-bn7-centre-change-uk-rhd/>

Can't afford it but have always wanted a copy of the B&W shot.

With regard to Bill Emerson's book and the figures quoted therein I
think that either Bill himself or Wiet Huidekopper told me that the
figures that Bill quotes tally with Clausager's because Bill used them
and regarded them as about as "right" as it was reasonably possible to
get - without the years spent burrowing through the BMIHT docs. After
all Clausager was, as has been pointed out the archivist at BMIHT.

Regards to all, stay healthy,

Peter Dzwig

On 21/06/2020 02:22, Patrick & Caroline Quinn wrote:
> Hello
> 
>  
> 
> An interesting question that doesn’t revolve around mechanical bits and
> pieces.
> 
>  
> 
> I don’t think anyone has a definitive answer to the question of
> centre-shift Mk2 BN7s. The numbers I quoted last night came from
> /Original Austin-Healey/ by Anders Ditlev Clausager which was published
> in 1990. Back then Anders was the archivist for the BMIHT and had access
> to all the build cards and in writing the book would have gone through
> them all.
> 
>  
> 
> It’s interesting to note the numbers on page 90 of the book as while the
> cars for 1961 are bundled together, there is no differentiation between
> side-shift to centre-shift in the 214 Mk2 BN7s built in that year. For
> 1962 there were 141 built and all these were fitted with centre shift
> gearboxes with 12 built in RHD. Of the 12, nine stayed in the UK (five
> became Rally cars) and three exported. There are two in Australia
> (HBN7/18442 and HBN7/18884) with the former sold new here and the latter
> being a personal export to New York for a member of the Australian
> consulate and eventual export to Australia. I As to the other one I
> think it went to New Zealand, but was recent sold back into the UK.
> 
>  
> 
> Bill Emerson’s book was first published in 2002 and the same figures are
> mention as are in the Clausager book.
> 
>  
> 
> Yes the Mk2 Roadster didn’t sell all that well. Why? Probably because
> the news was out about the new rain-tight BJ7 was about to be release
> and in fact the two models were built concurrently and would have been
> on some showroom floors together. The other factor was that buyers had
> little people and the selfishness of a two-seater car couldn’t be countered.
> 
>  
> 
> Unless someone is prepared to do what Clausager did and go through the
> build cards from November 1961 through to the last Mk2 Roadster, we are
> unlikely to deduce an accurate figure of the number of centre-shift Mk2
> Roadsters built.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for the brain exercising on a Sunday morning.
> 
>  
> 
> Hoo Roo
> 
>  
> 
> Patrick Quinn
> 
> Blue Mountains, Australia
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Dr. Peter Dzwig