Nothing against managment, as they at least paid me for the usual 8 hours
time on a annual basis ( I was shown on the personal roll as Service
Supervisor) but the budget in the begining was one dollar for each car sold
the previous year. The first year that was about $25,000. The top managment
did encourage me and that was something that no other manufacturer was doing
at the time. I dide have a couple people who really believed in what was
going on...Mike Cook in the New York office was a great supporter and
without his editing there never would have been that first competition
manual. I was also free to buy any tools or equipment that I wanted as long
as I bought it with MY own money. But it worked out okay. The only thing
that made me mad was although I bought all the tools and equipment ( and it
was precious little) on my own, the company refused to list the stuff on the
insurance policy. Interesting days and it did take some dedication. Harry
Webster, Chief Engineer at the factory was my hero though and sent me an old
DPX 3 dyno from the testing shop. Wow, we are on our way. All I had to do
was figure out how to make all the stuff it takes to install it and then how
to run the blasted thing. Yup, interesting times.
----- Original Message -----
From: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@cruzers.com>
To: fot mail list <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: Air Filter choice?
> Wow, so the Triumph competition dept was nothing like the Ford
> competition dept in the mid-late sixties when they decided to go racing
> 8*)
>
> Sounds like you did it in spite of the Triumph management. I thought
> they would at least allow you to raid the parts isles and give you at
> least one mechanic. zowie
>
>
>
> >When I was racing my TR-2 and my TR-3 there were NO FREE PARTS. There
were
> >also no free mechanics working for me and even after a couple of years of
> >the Competition Department I finally was allowed to hire ONE guy. The one
> >thing I did have FREE was an 18 hour day and there were 7 of them in
every
> >week. The most the department EVER had was three and we ran fifteen races
> >with three different models of cars and then an occasional 12 hour event
in
> >Florida with still just the same amount. I don't think scavaging through
> >the return warranty parts is a defination of FREE PARTS. But in those
days
> >you were not allowed to run anything but the stock item (air filter) so
> >messing around with countless materials was never an option The last
couple
> >years of the departments existance were good I'll admit, a real budget
and
> >access to some inventory at the factory, BUT then there were eight years
of
> >"tough sleding with no snow".
>
>
>
>
> TeriAnn
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