<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Without trying to hijack this thread perhaps I can get the ansdwer to a question I have been wondering about for a long time: Does anyone know what drove the badge change from "Austin-Healey" on the early cars to "Austin Healey" on later cars? While I know there is often no rhyme nor reason for variations in Healey equipment, etc. it appears that once the change was made it stayed that way and thus it appears to have been an intentional decision.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I have heard one explanation that the badge supplier mistakenly left out the hyphen and in order to get a break in price BMC accepted the order and stuck with the new badge design. This smacks of cynical humor but perhaps it is true.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Can anyone shed any light here? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:58 PM BJ8Healeys <<a href="mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com">sbyers@ec.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_1166037742723277453WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">One of the details I document for each BJ8 in the registry is the type of nose badge it has. As we know, later cars had painted badges and some owners have claimed that their badge was always plain chrome -- no color at all. I started out describing the early badges as "cloisonné". Then someone pointed out the difference between cloisonné and champlevé, so I changed all the nomenclature to champlevé. Both cloisonné and champlevé refer to techniques, not the material -- which is vitreous enamel. So, that is the description I'm using now.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">The BMC parts manual gives only one part number for the BJ8 nose badge so there is no change point from one type of badge to another. Recording this detail simply provides some data to help improve our knowledge of change points.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Steve Byers</span><span style="color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">HBJ8L/36666</span><span style="color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">BJ8 Registry</span><span style="color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">AHCA Delegate at Large</span><span style="color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Havelock, NC </span><span style="color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Healeys [mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com" target="_blank">simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 18, 2018 11:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Bob Spidell'; <a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Paint type and color<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">Yes, these are the absolute Go To people. Used to call themselves PamelaDavid and were pretty much non-digital.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">They described my MkII badge as cloisonné but they may have assumed that I didn’t know the difference.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">They were indeed backlogged but it was worth it. 6+/- weeks.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">Simon<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Spidell<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 October 2018 19:21<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Paint type and color<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">While I normally wouldn't contradict Michael--he's a pro and I'm an amateur--that isn't correct. What's in our badges--until late BJ8s anyway, which were painted--is </span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Champlevé:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://beautifulantiquetreasures.com/2014/05/02/telling-the-difference-between-champleve-and-cloisonne-enamel/" target="_blank">https://beautifulantiquetreasures.com/2014/05/02/telling-the-difference-between-champleve-and-cloisonne-enamel/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">This is usually cited as the goto place for badge restoration, but I hear they are horribly backlogged:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.badgecraft.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.badgecraft.co.uk/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Bob<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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