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Job Production Cards

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Most of you will have heard of the "job production card" or "job card" that accompanied each Healey as it went down the assembly line at Longbridge or Abingdon. Various data was recorded on the cards, such as colors and options and chassis and engine number, and often some other particularly interesting tidbit was included such as a notation that the car was going to be sent to the Donald Healey Motor Company in Warwick.

By the way, the formal name of these cards was "Body Production Windscreen Card."

Those 5" x 7" cards were destroyed long ago, but a microfilm record of them was made, and it is that microfilm that the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) depends on to complete the certificates of original production data that they sell via their website. However, a very few of those cards were not collected before the car left the factory, as intended, and they have found their way into owners' hands when they were discovered still in the car. I did a story on this with several examples shown in the Summer 2023 edition of Austin-Healey Quarterly ezine (pp. 36-39), and you can view that edition, and all editions of Austin-Healey Quarterly, HERE.

Well, some years ago someone (I have no recollection of who it was) reprinted blank job cards, and if you have the BMIHT certificate for your Healey you can effectively "reverse engineer" the data that would have been shown on the card, and if you print it in purple ink as the originals were, you can have a very close replica of the card for your Healey. Here's one I made for one of my Healeys:

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In any case, I just thought some of you might find this interesting.
 
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