<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hyphens cost money and the BMC beancounters had them removed.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Per--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Thanks for your reply but I don't think that is it. Certainly at one point A-H was correct and somewhere along the way it changed so that all later cars lost the hyphen. I simply wonder why and am quite surprised that there is not a known explanation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Per Schoerner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:per@schoerner.se" target="_blank">per@schoerner.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
I have always thought that the unhyphened badges of, at least, MkIIs and MkIIIs, have been aftermarket , but maybe I'm mistaken. I have a worned out original badge on my MkII, with a hyphen, and a brand new unhyphened badge on the shelf. I hesitate to replace it, for origanality sakes. I'm not a 100 percent for originality, I have several things on my car that is not original, but I'm serious when it comes to badges.<br>
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BTW, I still have never heard a credible explanation as to why the nose<br>
badges changed from "Austin-Healey" to "Austin Healey" without the<br>
hyphen. Someone once posited that a supplier furnished incorrect badges<br>
that were bought at a discount and the rest was history but that does<br>
not seem likley to me.<br>
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