Bill.....not sure I ever heard the official designation of these carbs., but
were they not built for the Triumph TR4 which was specially prepared for a
Le Mans entry?
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
-----Original Message-----
From: WSpohn4 <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 9:07 PM
Subject: Quiz
>Here's a question that I posed to a Jensen group I frequent, by way of a
>trivia test. Let's see if the MG group are smarter.
>
>1 - what does SU mean (easy)
>
>2 - what is the designation for the only double barrelled SU ever built?
>(looks like a Weber with dashpots) By designation I mean H4, HS6 etc.
>
>3 - what cars/engines did it come on?
>
>The last two are pretty hard. I had a pair of these carbs (fitted them to a
>TR3 on home built manifolds - what can I say?) I sold them to a guy who was
>restoring a car that had them originally.
>There were probably less than 100 pairs ever manufactured.
>
>Bonne chance mes amis.
>
>Bill Spohn
>
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