Sad to hear of Ray Henderson dying, Coventry can be a small
place............many years ago I met Ray and talked to him about the Africa
proving run for Heralds in 1957, some years later it turned out that the
salesman who sold me cardboard boxes was married to Ray's daughter and we
borrowed the original log for the Africa run, copied it and then a year or
two ago I retyped it and hopefully it should be in the archives of
triumph_herald@yahoogroups.com , it has a lot more technical info than the
"Turn Left for Tangiers" book about the trip.
John Kipping
----- Original Message -----
From: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
To: "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: Sad News
> July 24th Ray Henderson, experimental engineer for many many years at the
> Triumph factory, died of a stroke. Most will not know Ray, but believe me
he
> knew of all of you. He was always so interested in the doings of the USA
> Triumph racers and so appreciative of their efforts.
>
> Ray was instrumental in the development and progress of the Competition
> Department and through him we profited by several rear axle ratios such as
the
> 4.3 and the 4.55 and special camshaft castings and most of all
> understanding and interest in our endeavors. He ran the teams at Le Mans
I
> will always remember his comments on our racing successes in the USA, "
how
> bloody wonderful".
>
> The best and our heartfelt condolences to his wife Joan.
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