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Re: TR3A Commission numbers.

To: "Musson, Carl" <musson@satie.arts.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: TR3A Commission numbers.
From: "Ed Woods" <fogbros@nb.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:06:44 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "Triumph Mailinglist" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
My two cents:

The flywheel and starter are a set, they must have been changed at the same
car.

Ed Woods
-----Original Message-----
From: Musson, Carl <musson@satie.arts.usf.edu>
To: 'Angelo Graham' <a3graham@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca>; triumphs@autox.team.net
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 10:16 AM
Subject: RE: TR3A Commission numbers.


>
>Angelo -
>The answer to the commission number question can be found at the VTR web
>pages
>http://www.vtr.org/TR3/TR3-production.html
><http://www.vtr.org/TR3/TR3-production.html>  but in short early 30,000
>would be mid 1958 probably around May/June.
>
>I don't have one handy, but I think the TRF catalog gives the break
>point on the bullet nose starter.  Or a spares parts manual.  If you
>don't get an answer before this evening; I can find out for you.   I do
>know that the flywheel assy was changed at TS50001; could have been done
>at that time but I think that is late.
>
>Carl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angelo Graham [SMTP:a3graham@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 9:45 AM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR3A Commission numbers.
>
>
> Hello list:
>
> Trying to help a friend with his TR.  It is a low 30,000 no. and
>is
> registered as a 1960.
> Also has the bullet nose starter (broken!).  Anyone have any
>idea of the
> comm. nos. roughly related to years of production?  Any ideas as
>well on
> when the bullet nose starter was discontinued?  My idea is that
>this is an
> early 3A, and if it is a "1960", it was sitting around a dealers
>show room
> for some time.
> Thanks in advance for any help with this.
>
> Angelo Graham
> 1959 TR3A
> Waterloo, Ont. Canada


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