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Re: rolls-bentley bumper

To: JCareyPage@cs.com, rolls-bentley@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: rolls-bentley bumper
From: TATERRY@aol.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:01:18 -0400
In a message dated 6/10/2004 7:10:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
JCareyPage@cs.com writes:

> Terry,  I happen to have a bumper.  I won't know for awhile if I'll be using 
> it for my restoration.  On my 1929, it was not always there... (or "they" 
>were 
> not always there).  Since they were coachbuilt cars, I have to research how 
> mine should be as part of the "Phsase Two" of restoration.  That (coachwork) 
> won't begin until next summer at best.
> 
> I don't know how big it is, but it seems huge.  So do your 
> homework and save 
> my address incase you can't find one.

Thanks John, our big MG has a coach built body by Salmons Tickford and they 
sometimes put a rear bumper on.  Always had a front bumper but that was MG 
standard.  I now have a set of brackets but need the bumper which is probably 
special for our body.  It has the back lit registration plate which swings 
depending on if the boot is open, so the bumper has to have "notch" in it for 
lack of a better word to clear this registration plate.  The plate also carries 
the D lamps for tail/stop/back up light.  At the ends of the bumper, the curved 
metal was rolled and carried a stainless finishing cap which hid a round lead 
anti-vibration weight.  Verrry British, I say!!  I think it was made by Wilmot 
Breeden.  It only took us 12 years to restore this monster, so good luck with 
yours!   and let me know if the bumper becomes surplus and looks like the above 
description.  
Cheers,
Terry

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