[Tigers] Clearing Up Rumors

[Jeffrey Nichols]

"An elderly English gentleman walked up to me and introduced
himself as Roy Axe.  He told me he was the Design Director at The Rootes
Group during the time the Tiger was conceived."
 
Wasn't that the guy quoted in Bill Carroll's book who said the Tiger firewall was beaten with a large sledge hammer to make the engine fit.  Maybe if you see him again you can ask him if that is really true.   I always thought someone looked at the assembly line and saw a Jensen worker beating on the frame and it looked like they were pounding on the firewall to make room for the Ford engine.  So they would assume Jensen had to massage the firewall via hammer and that was reported as how all the cars were made.
 
 
                                                 Jeff 
 
 
                                             Jeff  
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