Great idea! It might also be interesting to include the commission
numbers, in order to see what sort of a distribution we have on the list.
If you want to, mine is TSF263, right in the middle of the first group.
And yes, they do have the all synchro transmission.
Sumner Weisman
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> From: Keith A Edwards <kedwards@norfolk.infi.net>
> To: ArthurK101@aol.com
> Cc: walker05@camosun.bc.ca; triumphs@autox.team.net; Sumner Weisman
<sweisman@gis.net>; Steve Thornton <TRIPHSTEVE@aol.com>; Don Marshall
<DLMAssoc@aol.com>; David Moag <moag@ix.netcom.com>; Hassan, Erkan
<hassan@pharmacy.ab.umd.edu>; Harris Goodkind <tr_250@yahoo.com>; Ken
Nuelle <KTRIUMPH@aol.com>; Henry Frye <thefryes@iconn.net>;
JoEllisTR3@aol.com; Les Landon <Lftlesl@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: TR3/3A/3B Production ( was TR4 Payen Head gaskets)
> Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 8:27 PM
>
> ArthurK101@aol.com wrote:
>
> (very good TR3A,TR3B,TR4 production information SNIPped)
>
> > Don't know about "AE Payen".
> > The first TR4 was built on Jul 18, '61. TR3/3A production stopped in
Autumn
> > '61. Shortly after, the US dealers asked for more sidescreen cars.
Triumph
> > complied and in March '62 started building TR3B's. The first 530
TR3B's
> > (TSF1- TSF530L) were basically TR3A's.
>
> Although various documentation/books say otherwise, apparently all of
> the
> TSF TR3Bs had a synchro first gear.
>
> >The second batch (TCF1-TCF2804) of
> > TR3B cars used TR4 geearboxes and engine. TR3B's stopped being built
sometime
> > in Dec '62. so there were several months (Jul'61 - autumn '61) when
both
> > TR3A's and TR4's were being built simultaneously and about 9 months
(Mar'62 -
> > Dec '62) when TR3B's and TR4's were being built together. I've seen
photos of
> > the assembly with both types of cars on it.
>
> More SNIP
>
> I also wanted to point out that the second (last) commissioning of
> Italias were of TSF chassis, so I _believe_ that there are about 50
> fewer TSF TR3Bs than the 530 number often reported.
>
>
> Keith Edwards
> Suffolk, VA
> TSF198L (owned since 1978)
> TCF103L (former race car)
> 2 TR4As
> 1 Healey
> 1 Princess
> a few fractional cars laying about...
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