[Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

[Buck Trippel]

...a Tiger 1A, because Rootes never used that nomenclature in any of their 
publications...

I've heard this discussion over the years and believe that Norm has written 
about it. But to make a grey area even more so, I recall reports of a PR 
photograph sent out by Rootes in 1966 that had the caption "Tiger MK1A".

Anyone know anything about this photo? Was it one of those that Steve Sage 
discovered in the Coventry Museum?

bt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rande" <rande at thecia.net>
To: <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:35 PM
Subject: [Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature


> Just something to think about.
>
> While I was attending the Reno United this year, someone, whose Tiger 
> knowledge
> I respect, pointed out that maybe we in the Tiger hobby should stop 
> referring
> the Tiger v.2 as a Tiger 1A, because Rootes never used that nomenclature 
> in
> any of their publications. For the brochures, they just used Sunbeam Tiger 
> (or
> Sunbeam Alpine V8 for Euro cars)to cover both I and IA, and MK II for, 
> well,
> Mark II's. The parts catalogs seemed to use Mark I and Mark II, and 
> ocassionally
> the VIN prefix (B947, B382,etc).
>
> This person suggested instead to use the VIN prefix(i.e. 'I've got a B382, 
> or
> 'I've got a B947'.
>
> What does the group think?
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