Kas Kastner wrote:
There might be some colored frames out there, no debate, but in the HUNDREDS
of TR_3's, both early from 1958 thru 1961 I never saw one with anything but
a black frame.
I'm late coming in on this 'cos I'm only in digest mode now. FWIW and casting
my mind back
to many factory visits on Saturday mornings with Dad in the period Kas
mentions, I
remember stacks and stacks of frames - and all in black. Equally, I agree with
Paul
Richardson that the works competition cars (presumably used in Europe?) were
painted white
for the reasons Paul mentioned - i.e. crack detection. Might it not be an idea
to archive
these posts - just in the remote possibility this matter raises its head at a
later stage?
You in there Chris Holbrook? What's your view? They were black weren't they?
Weren't they?
Then someone else wrote:
People who worked near the factory have told of frames sitting out barren and
rusty before
going into assymbly/ paint..
Frankly, I find this very hard to believe because storage space was so limited.
With a
total factory site including buildings, new car parks, staff car parks, playing
fields,
warehouses - and all on less than 100 acres, you don't leave frames around
willy-nilly for
the good (or ill) of their health. Engine blocks and cylinder heads outside,
barren and
rusty - yes, I'll agree. This was the weathering process before they were
machined and
they often sat out there for up to six months in a gurt big pile. What's more,
these would
have been visible to people who lived near at hand - on Tile Hill Lane. Chassis
frame
storage was usually on the other side of the plant and not overlooked except by
other
factories and a sunken railway track.
Jonmac
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