<html><body>Picture this around 1961-1962...boom times for BMC...there is a huge rack of engines and transmissions just adjacent to the production line at Abingdon. The cars are coming down the rail and they expect to do maybe 30 cars that day. The design/engineering department has just introduced a revised centre change gearbox and they are in production now. A truck is unloading them and stacking them on the shelves.<div><br></div><div>Due to the frugal attitude of BMC, all existing parts must be used up before any new items can be introduced into production. So as the line progressed the side shifter box inventory is exhausted and now the centre shift is being installed...opps, one guy just located another side shifter-stick in the next car coming down the line. Get it out the door...</div><div><br></div><div>My take on the "records", Hank<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Earl Kagna" <kags@shaw.ca><br>To: "Neil Anderson", "ROBERT BROWN", "Bob Haskell"<br>Cc: "Healeys"<br>Sent: Saturday June 20 2020 9:48:00AM<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Number of Center-change BN7s<br><br>Gentlemen:<br>
<br>
It has been my understanding that BN7 / BT7 was overlapped with the start of <br>
BJ7 production.<br>
<br>
I am looking at Clausagers book on page 89, which gives beginning and ending <br>
VIN #s (and dates) for all 3000's. Assuming that this table is accurate, <br>
this is exactly why it is next to impossible to determine the number of top <br>
shift BN7's - because of the undetermined number of BJ7's interspersed. As <br>
Steve says, it would take someone to go through all of the individual <br>
production records during that period to get a more-or-less accurate count.<br>
<br>
I recall (from many, many years ago) that a couple of knowledgeable tri-carb <br>
guru's best estimates of top shift BN7's was somewhere between 120 and 140 <br>
of the total 355 built.<br>
<br>
Earl Kagna<br>
Victoria, B.C.<br>
BJ8, BT7 tri-carb<br>
<br>
-----Original Message----- <br>
From: Bob Haskell<br>
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2020 8:34 AM<br>
To: Neil Anderson ; ROBERT BROWN<br>
Cc: Healeys<br>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Number of Center-change BN7s<br>
<br>
Matches Clausager's book:<br>
<br>
Year RHD RHD LHD LHD<br>
home export export NA<br>
1961 25 2 53 134<br>
1962 9 3 4 125<br>
Total 34 5 57 259<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Bob Haskell<br>
Austin Healey 3000 BN7/BT7 registrar<br>
<br>
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