<html><body><br>Ah, the wavy grille. This was designed by Eric Neele, engineer at Jensen, to be used on the first 100-6 body produced by Jensen. The powers to be wanted a departure from the 100 vertical bars and Neele came up with this look, and the tractor seats, to be installed in the 4-place Healey BN4 (a misnomer as the "N" stands for two seat roadster). (photo)<div><br></div><div>As you know over the years the vertical treatment came back to represent the original Healey look. As Michael indicates, the parts bins had lots of those grilles, and they got used as standard equipment on many models from BMC. Hank<br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Michael Salter via Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br>To: pdzwig@summaventures.com<br>Cc: "healeys"<br>Sent: Thursday October 1 2020 10:49:58AM<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey/Morris connection?<br><br><div dir="auto">Hi Peter, as I understand it the "wavey" grill bars were part of a "rationalization" drive initiated under Len Lord's management. <div dir="auto">All sorts of parts were redesigned to allow for the use of component parts to be used across many models.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">M</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu., Oct. 1, 2020, 1:33 p.m. Peter Dzwig via Healeys, <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was driving and was passed by a Morris 1100 coming towards me. Closing<br>
speed was about 80 - 90 mph, so I didn't get a long chance to look but I<br>
noticed that it had a 100/6-style "wavy grill".<br>
<br>
Really curious. Does anyone know if this was a standard option, or an<br>
aftermarket hack? I know that they were part of the same group, but I<br>
wouldn't have thought that the shroud opening would take it on the 1100!<br>
<br>
Anyone any thoughts/ideas :-)<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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Dr. Peter Dzwig<br>
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