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Maybe it came from India?<br>
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Come on, you were all thinking it ;)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2019 1:48 PM, Michael Oritt
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Could it
be that they were designated for the antipodes and numbered
thusly?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Otherwise I
would ascribe it to the Coriolis effect.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 4:02 PM
Patrick & Caroline Quinn <<a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thank
you Bill</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">There
doesn’t appear to be any pattern and they are spread
over BN1 and BN2s.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hoo Roo</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Patrick
Quinn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Blue
Mountains, Australia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">(Where
the bush is still burning)</span></p>
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lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"> Bill Kollar [mailto:<a
href="mailto:wkollar@nycap.rr.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">wkollar@nycap.rr.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 8 December 2019 2:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Harper; Patrick & Caroline
Quinn<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] 100 Engine Numbers</span></p>
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<p><b>The engine in my 54 BN1 is a 1B******M</b></p>
<p><b>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.</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 12/6/2019 9:06 AM, John Harper
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<p class="MsoNormal">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</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 22:33,
Patrick & Caroline Quinn <<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">p_cquinn@tpg.com.au</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman
,serif",serif">The bulk of the engines
fitted to the Austin-Healey 100 BN1 and BN2
start with 1B, but some start with the H1B.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman
,serif",serif">Would anyone know?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman
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Australia</span></p>
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