Mike,
Mine is chassis number 10178, just 22 cars before yours and all the body brackets were (and still are) body paint black. I assume from
this that they were painted at the same time as the body with the same paint. The black cellulose is different to the chassis paint. My car only spent 19 years on the road and had never been painted. It was laid up in 1968 because the owner thought it had
broken a half shaft and meant to fix it next year which of course never came. When I took the wheel off I found the 6 hub nuts had come off and the nuts and washers were still embedded in EP140 inside the wheel hub!
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[b]Subject:[/b] Re: [mg-tabc] Re: TC BONNET BUFFER BRACKETS
Hi Tom,
What you say makes logical sense. Although there is evidence that both chassis rear ends were painted red body colour as were the brake drums. I am uncertain though that TC10200 was a show car given that the TD would have been in production less than two
weeks later at the begining of December 1949. I will be painting all buffers and fasteners black. Looks to be a safer bet.
Thanks fot your interest and regards,
Mike Bate - TC10200 - Cornwall UK.
Interesting find on the buffer brackets, Mike. I've not found a single photo in my library of factory TC production and publicity photos that shows the bracket, so no clues there.
From a production standpoint it seems illogical for them to be painted body color (black excepted). What would the production sequence be? Part stamped out, sent to paint shop for painting, then to the place where the rubber would be attached?
Spec 259 doesn't provide clues. Sheet 19(1) Wings & Stays lists part 81815-Z Bonnet Buffer, material 112 & Rbr (112 is a steel, rbr = rubber), with no note on finish. The Bonnet Fastener Bracket, pert 81781-Z (Page 16(1) Bonnet) is made of 113 material (another
steel spec), with no note on finish.
MG would carefully paint chassis to match body color for show cars, but it's likely TC10200 wouldn't have had this, as it was so late in production.
Tom Wilson
TC0273, TC0279, TC2040