[TR] How did the factory add on factory options

[Don Hiscock]

John, I've thought about, and laughed, at your memory of that "three door"
Toledo, the right-left Herald, and the wire-disk Spit.  Truly funny.
Knowing how eager S-T were to sell car, I'd be willing to bet at least two
of those were sold on.  Heck, maybe all three.

Sidescreen TRs in the US have all kinds of variations in windscreen
washers.  Some never had their dash blanking panel pierced for where a
switch usually went.  I'd have believed all cars got nozzles mounted to the
scuttle, but I didn't know all cars got washers.

The 1956 09 S-T accessories brochure still shows windscreen washers as an
option, but they note even then they were rapidly becoming an essential.
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-vncLKFm/1/3100b418/O/i-vncLKFm.jpg

BR,

Don

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:52 PM John Macartney <John.Macartney at ukpips.org.uk>
wrote:

> Small correction, Don. Screen washers were a legal requirement in most
> world markets and for those countries that didn’t specify them, they got
> them anyway. A normal line fitted item.
>
> Jonmac
>
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> On 4 Jun 2020, at 19:24, Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here's what part of the Coventry production lines looked like in 1958.
> Maybe this will give some insight into how things were done.  It's clear
> S-T campaigned body colors, and possibly interior colors too.
> https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Zq7NRxF/0/3dfea902/O/i-Zq7NRxF.jpg
> https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-3c968hL/0/e52b3d42/O/i-3c968hL.jpg
> https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-n5fdGBR/0/48115ef0/O/i-n5fdGBR.jpg
> https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-9RpSbmS/0/9d49a652/O/i-9RpSbmS.jpg
>
> Jonmac and I were having an email conversation about some of the regional
> customization the other day (around lighting regulation differences across
> the continent in the day) that might be relevant here, too.  John noted
> that customization could be done in line production, in Sales Conversion,
> off-line before dispatch by train, or by the selling dealer.  Where options
> were added relate to how deep they're built into the car.  Adjustable
> steering on a sidescreen car would obviously be done on the line.
> Windscreen washers and mirrors, for example, were usually done by the
> dealer.
>
> Don
> Saint Louis
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:46 PM Sujit Roy <triumphstag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm just wondering how the factory added options to cars.
>> Did the production line have branches off the main line at certain stages
>> and then they would merge back on the main line? Or were the cars lifted
>> off the line with some crane?
>> Sujit
>>
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