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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Been about 6 years or so since the last go around on the “hyphen” question. Maybe not that long ago as I may have missed it. No definitive answer then and doubt there is one now.</p><p class=MsoNormal>There was a perhaps slightly tongue in cheek answer back in 2014 which I still find a bit humorous…but then I’m an old man looking for a hyphen in all the wrong places. Thanks Johnny Lee for the partial use of your lyrics.</p><div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #C8C8C8 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 4.0pt 0in;background:#FAFAFA'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333'>From the forum:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Re: Austin-Healey to Austin Healey<o:p></o:p></span></h2></div><div id="post_message_940816"><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAFAFA'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br>“Like with so many other items, production went on even with temporary outages of inconsequential parts. For example, occasionally the union, Punctuation Fabricators & Parentheses Benders International, would go on strike and BMC reserves would dry up, but they kept sending cars down the line, even without the hyphen.<br><br>So far the parts suppliers have neglected to make an acceptable reproduction that will fit without an extraordinary degree of fiddling, and so good used originals remain in demand.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAFAFA'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAFAFA'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Thanks for that one Reid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAFAFA'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Perry</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com">Michael Oritt</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 27, 2020 4:15 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ah100register@gmail.com">John Harper</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">Austin Healey</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] interesting BN1 "survivor"</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'>And I still have a question to which no one seems to have a definitive answer: Why (not when) did "Austin-Healey"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'>become "Austin Healey"? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'>I've heard various theories including the one where the supplier made a mistake and the factory took them at a discount and changed the company name but that really makes little sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'>Does anyone <i>really</i> know the reason?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'>Best--Michael Oritt<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3333FF'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:11 PM John Harper <<a href="mailto:ah100register@gmail.com">ah100register@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Ken</p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Just a small point. There was not an issue of old stock because cars like the A70 Hereford and the A40 Somerset used them until they were phased out some time later.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Best regards</p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 16:28, Ken Fleming via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.6pt'>Very nice car. Appears to have good bones ! Great car to drive or restore.</p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.6pt'>My car 160595 ,8/54 build also has Austin of England badge . Not sure where the change of badge occurred but believe it was end of August . Also rear pods were added to BN1 about same time.Mine was late Aug and has pods and early badge. I’m certain during the change point they were using all of old stock before installing new badge. <br>Ken</p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.6pt'>Sent from my iPhone</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.6pt'><br><br></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:45.6pt'>On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:13 AM, Michael Oritt <<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'><span style='color:#3333FF'>Eric--<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'><span style='color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'><span style='color:#3333FF'>My car is #222333 built 12/54 and also has an "Austin of England" badge on the boot.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'><span style='color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'><span style='color:#3333FF'>Best--Michael Oritt<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.6pt'>On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:04 AM Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.7in'>Wow, very nice car. If that is indeed the original material on the seats it's amazing that it's held up so well.</p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7in'>On 7/27/2020 12:31 AM, Eric Metzner wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hi gents,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>perhaps of interst for some of you - Carmine red survivor, built january 1955 BN1, 16883 original miles.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Some nice pictures can be found on: <a href="https://carrosso.nl/home-oud/for-sale/austin-healey-100-bn1-carmin-red.html" target="_blank">https://carrosso.nl/home-oud/for-sale/austin-healey-100-bn1-carmin-red.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Wears also "Austin of England" on the trunk lid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Cheers <br>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.2in'><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal 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