[TR] Engine colours

[Don Hiscock]

Orange-red handpainted marshalling marks on a TR3 engine on the Coventry
production line in 1958.
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-b5KrzK2/0/86ac2744/O/i-b5KrzK2.jpg

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:21 PM DAVE HOGYE <dlhogye at comcast.net> wrote:

> I believe all TR blocks came from the same foundry, with the cast-in
> embossed Bilchrome. I also believe that all engines had "TR" plus a number
> brush painted on the side, to easily pull the correct engine after it's
> assembly and install it in the correct car.  Morgan engines were also being
> assembled on the same assembly line, as far as I know.  Maybe they had an
> "M" painted on the side, but I don't have direct knowledge of this.  All
> TR3-4 engines that I have seen with the original black engine paint, have
> the TR plus a number, brush painted on the manifold side.  Kind of neat
> stuff to find all these years later. I guess that for a correct concourse
> restoration, the block paint marks should be replicated.
> Dave H.
> > On 06/16/2023 6:13 PM PDT dave northrup <dave at ranteer.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here are some closeups showing first the TR painted letters, then the
> engine "part number."  These both must be reconditioned/warranty?  Would
> not a normal factory engine say Stanpart?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of John
> Macartney
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 5:46 PM
> > To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> > Subject: [TR] Engine colours
> >
> > It must be more than twenty years back when this topic on reconditioned
> engines was aired and I remember contributing to it.
> > One of the major issues in unit reconditioning is getting the old units
> (aka in the U.K. as corps or cores) and it would be tedious and cost
> prohibitive in the extreme to ship worn engines, gearboxes and other
> electrical items across the Atlantic or more oceans if you include
> Australia and the Far East. All unit recon work on engines and gearboxes
> for the U.K. and Europe was undertaken by a Standard-Triumph subsidiary
> called Beans Industries. In my day, a Beans rebuilt engine was painted an
> unattractive shade of blue and the engine number was ground off and
> replaced by a totally different number stamped in place.
> > George Durand who was the company’s Parts Director was very proud of the
> unit recon and service exchange programmes he had established in a number
> of major markets and there was definitely one for the US and another for
> Canada. Basically, Standard-Triumph North America in Leonia, NJ together
> with their opposite numbers in Toronto, contracted two local companies to
> do their recon work as genuine factory replacements using parts supplied by
> STNA and STC parts divisions. It can’t be ruled out that some blue Beans
> recon units arrived stateside as part of regular parts shipments from the
> factory but it makes economic sense for the import company to set up this
> sort of arrangement on a local basis but what colours that might have been
> used is anyone’s guess.
> > It’s all rather like the Triumph branded radios sold as genuine factory
> approved units. The Acclaim was the first car to have a radio as standard
> fit but cars that went for export were usually radio-less and had a locally
> supplied unit fitted before delivery.
> > Lucas had a different arrangement and usually supplied a new unit in a
> service exchange packaging identity at a slightly lower retail price.
> >
> > Jonmac
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