TR2/3/3A Bulkhead Blanking Plate Changeover

M_Pied_Lourd

Darth Vader

Offline

• Jan 26, 2016

• #1

Hi Guys,

Just wonder what the TS number change over was for the elimination of the bulkhead blanking plates on the TR3A.

Cheers
Tush

 

TR3driver

Great Pumpkin - R.I.P

Offline

• Jan 26, 2016

• #2

From what I've heard, it was sporadic. I don't know what the first one was built without the plate (might have been after TS60000 with the new body tooling), but they continued making a certain number with the plate until the end (except perhaps for TR3B).

I'm guessing that was because they started building bodies before knowing exactly how many of them were to be LHD. They assumed that some minimum percentage would be LHD and built them without the plate (meaning LHD only) to reduce costs, but then built some more to be ambidextrous.

 

OP

M_Pied_Lourd

Darth Vader

Offline

• Jan 26, 2016

• #3

Thanks Randall,

The reason I'm asking is that I was looking at a TS 58xxx TR3A that had no blanking plate, but had the slope floor and the channel in the trunk for the rear seal. I'm not sure if it had a dzus windscreen or screw in...wish I had checked that.

I know that my 59 3A with comm # 44836 had the blanking plate...both my post 60 TR3As don't the earliest being 64870

Cheers
Tush

 

Geo Hahn

Yoda

Offline

• Jan 26, 2016

• #4

Mine - TS47905 - has no blanking plate.

Like Randall, I recall prior discussions concluding there was no specific change point.

 

Andrew Mace

Moderator

Staff member

Offline

• Jan 26, 2016

• #5

I would have said somewhere in the 50000s, as I've seen cars with fairly high (say, 58000 or thereabouts) with NO blanking plate, but I don't recall ever seeing a post-60000 car WITH one.

 

TR3driver

Great Pumpkin - R.I.P

Offline

• Jan 27, 2016

• #6

I'm pretty sure the post-60K car I parted out did have one, but that was some 35 years ago and I've slept since then. And it was pretty badly wrecked on that side (floorboard almost touching the dash) so I didn't bother to save it.

 

mgedit

Jedi Knight

Offline

• Jan 28, 2016

• #7

Another TR3 Tush?? Cheers, Mike

 

Don Elliott

Obi Wan

Offline

• Jan 28, 2016

• #8

I'm sure that during some restorations back in the 60s may have been put together from a hodge-podge of bits and pieces. Some cars with no blanking plate might have been used on an earlier TR3A.

 

OP

M_Pied_Lourd

Darth Vader

Offline

• Jan 28, 2016

• #9

Thanks for the replies guys. No, the car isn't for me

I thought what I was looking at was marriage of a front half of a post 60 000 car and a pre 60 000 rear (with sloped floor and trunk channel)since I thought (incorrectly it seems) that the blanking plate ended roughly at that change over period.

Does anyone know a changeover comm number from the dzus to screw in fasteners for the windscreen mounting?

Cheers
Tush

 

TR3driver

Great Pumpkin - R.I.P

Offline

• Jan 28, 2016

• #10

M_Pied_Lourd said:

Does anyone know a changeover comm number from the dzus to screw in fasteners for the windscreen mounting?

Click to expand...

Piggott claims 60K for that one. But he also notes that even the body change did not happen in strict commission number order. Some cars before TS60K had the later body, and some after had the earlier body.

I assume you know about the raised plinths for the hood hinges (which to me is most obvious for the front half)

 

Geo Hahn

Yoda

Offline

• Jan 28, 2016

• #11

Don Elliott said:

...some restorations back in the 60s may have been put together from a hodge-podge of bits and pieces. Some cars with no blanking plate might have been used on an earlier TR3A.

Click to expand...

No doubt that happens but in the case of mine (TS47905L) there is no blanking plate and also no plinths under the hinges (also windscreen Dzus). Since all are part of the scuttle/cowl assembly I am sure they are original to the car.

As I have said before - those guys were building cars, not writing history. It would no doubt amuse them to know the interest such minutia can arouse.