Re: TR4 boot lid lettering

[Joseph Sholtes <joeiv@concentric.net>]

ArthurK101@aol.com wrote:

> >
>
> I believe I've been misquoted.  We had a thread going awhile back about the
> markings on the TR4 boot lid.  The answer was that very early TR4's had NO
> "TR4" chrome lettering.  The "TR4" letters did become standard pretty early,
> (we never did determine exactly when that occurred however.  The "TR4" marking
> was put on at the factory.  Cheers.
>
> Art Kelly

Art,

  I was involved in that thread.  I have a road test of an early  TR4 in a Road 
and Track
magazine (Feb. '62), and the pictures showed no TR4 lettering  on the boot lid; 
just the
T R I U M P H letters accross the lid.

                                                             JOE IV
                                                             TR 250
                                                    WALLINGFORD, CT. USA