I have an Austin Service Manual for the four-cylinder "100" printed in 1959
well into 100-6 production. No refernece to '100-4' even then.
I also have circa 1962 Workshop Manual 36201 for six cylinders (BN4/BT4
through BN7/BT7, Mk I and II), in which the page headers and much of the
text refer to the "100-Six", while page footers referred to "100-6/3000".
The latter proves that the 100-6 notation had an early usage. Unfortunately,
the 1962 manual had no reason to refer to the earlier four-cylinder model,
so we don't know if "100-4" was an officially sanctioned notation early on,
at least from these references.
allen miller
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