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MG TD TF 1500 - stamping on leaf springs

Can anybody translate the stampings on my leaf springs in this picture? The Horst book says something about date of mfg. I belive but I can't figure it out.

efh Haskell

Ed,

It is a replacement spring from the MOWOG days. The originals would have been date stamped.

warmly,
dave
Dave Braun

Whoops,

I screwed up. MOWOG is date appropriate for our cars (not sure what I was thinking).

You can see the date stamp faintly in along the side (same place mine are).

I marked your photo accordingly. It starts with a six or a nine, which would be the month. Then there should be a year.

warmly,
dave

Dave Braun

I looked closer after Dave's explanation. They are stamped 6 of 1951! That's interesting since the car is titled as a "1950 mg td". The T-register shows it was built in '51 as well. So do I have a 1950 or a 1951 TD? It's #8686 on the dumbiron. Any guesses?
efh Haskell

Mr. Haskell - here is the build date for your TD

TD8686
XPAG/TD/LHX9099
29-Jun-1951
TD8686 EXL/NA


This info can be found on the following site:

http://www.tregister.org/search_prod.php


Hope this helps,

Jeff
Jeff Delk

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