Hello
The fitting of the lockable door handle to the early 100/6s is one of the
mysteries of life.
While they were on the driver?s door on LHD cars they were also fitted to the
RHD cars, but only on the passenger door, meaning that the driver?s side didn?t
have one. Why the passenger would want a door lock and not the driver is beyond
me.
Apart from the idea of why you would fit a door lock to an open car in the
1950s in the first place, we can only assume that when the body/chassis
assemblies were made at Jensen Motors there was no thought given whether an
individual car would end up in either left or right hand drive. So when the
mechanicals were installed at Longbridge the locks were already in place.
Incidentally the same door locks were also fitted to the Jowett Javelin, but on
the driver?s side on RHD cars. That compounds the mystery. Only the British
would do that.
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Blue Mountains, Australia
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Richard
Pratt
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2018 1:09 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] FW: Door lock 58 100-6
Healey List,
Has anyone seen this door lock arrangement. Any information would be
appreciated.
Richard
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