Jonmac, Virginia:
Somebody on the list once claimed that the road from the Triumph
factory to the ship dock had shoulders that were littered with the
little blue badges. It was claimed that they were so prevalent that they
could be used as glowing guides at night for the truck drivers. Had to
laugh...
I should mention that I measured mine before I removed them
(original paint, so I am pretty sure they were unmolested). Virginia, if
you give me a day or two I will look up my measurements.
Vance
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of John Macartney
Sent: February 16, 2005 12:07 AM
To: vhalstead@linkline.com; 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: placement of badges & flags
Virginia Halstead wrote:
> I need help with placing the British Leyland Blue rectangle metal
badge
> betw. door and wheelwell.
> Can anyone give me measurements for correct placement? Can anyone site
any
> references for finding this info? Unfortunately I forgot to measure
b/4
> car was painted.
Saw many of these being applied 'on the line' as the cars were made and
I
never recall seeing a mounting jig or any type of template. They put the
badge *about there* - and pressed hard to make it adhere. Sometimes they
didn't press hard enough and it fell off, so someone else replaced it
*about
there* and this location was often different to where the man on the
line
first placed it. To compound matters, in transit to the docks and
dealers,
even more fell off so yet more people had to decide where their *about
there* location was. There was a story within BL that these badges were
the
'fastest moving' of any part in inventory and there must still be
millions
of them around the world in the oddest of places - except attached to
the
cars they were designed to receive
Jonmac.
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