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Re: Ignition Lock

To: "Navarrette, Vance" <vance.navarrette@intel.com>,
Subject: Re: Ignition Lock
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:14 +0100
Vance Navarette wrote:
> Yes, the bolts on mine were definitely metric. No, I am not
> at all sure that the lock was original. My car is a 74-1/2 by the way.
> Perhaps the year makes a difference, as Triumph was making a very half
> hearted attempt to go metric (e.g. metric brake calipers on later cars).

Metric fasteners on column locks? Could well be a factory original as 
steering locks used in the UK in the 60's and 70's were almost exclusively 
of German manufacture - Waso. Wilmot Breedon may have come up with its own 
SCL in later years but I don't recall when.

Jonmac 




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