Hi,
See attached picture, I myself have only ever seen 'MOWOG' on the side cover, did the BMC logo appear on any Morris Minor gearboxes?
Best wishes,
Mike.
BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
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BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
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1954 Series 2: 4 door: "Sally" -- Back on the ground with (slave) wheels and waiting to be resprayed......
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
Not seen a BMC one but how about this?
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
Well the numbering is different, but that is the same illustration as appears in Section FF of my manual, with the BMC Rosette .
Basil the 1955 series II
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
So was it just some form of advertising or PR exercise then I wonder?
Best wishes,
Mike.
PS: LOTUS is just your fantasy sequence isn't it................
Best wishes,
Mike.
PS: LOTUS is just your fantasy sequence isn't it................
1954 Series 2: 4 door: "Sally" -- Back on the ground with (slave) wheels and waiting to be resprayed......
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
Under the main topic page of 'Restorations' I have just started to record my restoration of an early Series II saloon.
I asked yesterday if anyone else had seen this type of gearbox cover on any Series II as I certainly hadn't.
Is it a rare thing?
I asked yesterday if anyone else had seen this type of gearbox cover on any Series II as I certainly hadn't.
Is it a rare thing?
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
Hi,
It does seem to be unusual.....
Best wishes,
Mike.
It does seem to be unusual.....
Best wishes,
Mike.
1954 Series 2: 4 door: "Sally" -- Back on the ground with (slave) wheels and waiting to be resprayed......
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
Now that I have started to clean down the externals of my engine I have found that the same 'BMC' format is cast into the block.
Again. I've never seen that before.
Again. I've never seen that before.
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
I suspect politics, business politics that is. With the recent creation of BMC some higher up wanted the new logo to be everywhere to promote the new organization, internally as well as to the public. Either one of the dies or the first die had the logo engraved. On the other had the casting house must have been part of the Nuffield side since the rest of the dies got MOWOG cast into basically Austin designed components so the MOWOG guys didn't want to lose there identity. US vs THEM internal politics.
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
Looks like MOWOG won the internal political battle in this case then.
Only for the entire organisation (including Triumph, Rover, Wolseley, Jaguar etc.) to loose out later, in the suicide note for the British car industry that was the British Leyland empire..............
Best wishes,
Mike.
Only for the entire organisation (including Triumph, Rover, Wolseley, Jaguar etc.) to loose out later, in the suicide note for the British car industry that was the British Leyland empire..............
Best wishes,
Mike.
1954 Series 2: 4 door: "Sally" -- Back on the ground with (slave) wheels and waiting to be resprayed......
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
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Re: BMC logo on gearbox side cover?
i have a Britmo box in my series 2. this was the company that made the gearboxes before mowog. I too have never seen a bmc logo on a box.