Sorry guys this should have been copied to the list, too.
Peter Dzwig
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Subject: Re: Engine Colors and Longbridge/Abingdon transition (long)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:01:00 +0000
From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com>
Reply-To: pdzwig@summaventures.com
Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd
To: Editorgary@aol.com
References: <15c.4707cdf5.2f0af22a@aol.com>
Gary and all,
One or two comments and I would like other BN4 owners to comment too, if they
are able.
Mr. Editorgary@aol.com wrote (in his infinite wisdom):
> Just to put this one to rest again for awhile:
>
> The Anderson/Moment book is wrong on this point, reflecting the lack
> of information about Longbridge cars when the book was written. The
> story that I now believe is that when the 100-Six was first
> introduced, Healeys were still being assembled at Longbridge, but the
> new six-cylinder engines were sourced from the Morris plant at
> Coventry, instead of being built at the Austin engine works in
> Longbridge. Consequently when production first begun, they were
> painted the same color as other engines from that plant, i.e. Morris
> Green.
As some will recall I have a Longbridge (June 57) BN4. Some years back the
engine decided that it wanted to drop large lumps of cylinder ring into the
crankcase. As a result I was able to inspect the engine in some detail as we
took it to pieces.
The engine was a 1C with "Gallery" head (this is consistent with the original
log book) and I have every reason to believe from what I saw that it was
Austin-sourced. It was NOT painted Morris (ie dark bottle) Green, but something
much closer to Healey Green. Pistons etc also met Austin spec.
Naturally as I haven't owned it from new I can't be 100% sure, but...
> All 1C engines were painted Morris green.
see above.
It'd be interesting to hear from any other 100/6 owners with late Longbridge
cars.
Yours,
Peter Dzwig
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