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MG TD TF 1500 - Another MG Vendor? heard from

I am remaking the wooden parts of the TD seats. $35 for Baltic Birch is better than $230. I am making only the flat part of the bottoms.

Some time ago there was a thread listing MG-T vendors.
Here is a vendor sticker that was on one of the triangular prism shaped parts that I am reusing.

Car # GD/12789 EX/NA

I would guess polish?

Jim B.

JA Benjamin

Hey Jim,

Ahlstrom is a Finnish company and a big one at that.Have a look at http://www.ahlstrom.com/en/Contact-us/.

I spent a career in the pulp & paper industry and ran Nokia Canada long before Nokia started making cell phones. (That's an interesting story in itself).

Spent a lot of time in Finland. I used to coordinate various projects with Ahlstrom.

My guess is that the wood from which your label came, was an Ahlstron product.

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qué.
Gordon A Clark

So I finished the bottoms and primed them. I removed the old covers from the back and vacuumed out the mouse turds and stray Horse hair and there tucked in the springs was a pink slip.

Jim B.

JA Benjamin

I carefully unwrapped it and it appears to be some sort of shipping/inventory paper, placed there 62 years ago by "Springcot Ltd.".
In the name box it say THRUPP9 MABL=Rl
PART No H
QUANTITY 1(?)0(?}
COU(?)
WEIGHT S/C H/C C

Jim B.

JA Benjamin

Interesting !
Springcot probably the manufacturer of the seat springs, Thrupp & Maberley though were coachbuilders (like Hooper, VandenPlas etc). AFAIK they had nothing to do with the Nuffield Organisation, however they did supply bodies for the Rootes group.

Nick (TD3232)
Nick Herwegh

The Springcot tag is very interesting. This company did not even make Grace's Guide so they were pretty small I suspect. Not to be confused with the current Springcot which is a energy company in Nigeria.

There were a couple of patents by them in 1947 and again in 1956.

Jim B.: Was that found inside your seat bottoms?
Christopher Couper

>Jim B.: Was that found inside your seat bottoms?

No that was in the seat back. The bottoms are foam.

Jim B.
JA Benjamin

The Ahlstrom tag was on the seat bottoms.

Jim B.
JA Benjamin

Sorry. I meant the Ahlstrom tag, but you answered my question none the less.
Christopher Couper

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