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MG TD TF 1500 - HAPPP 60th TF-1500 Birthday

Join me in wishing a Happy 60th Birthday to
TF-1500 chassis 8926. She rolled off the assembly line on January 19th 1955. I can report having known her for the last 45 years!
Rick Walsh
R.T. Walsh

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R.T. Walsh

Hmmm
unable to upload a picture....?
Rick
R.T. Walsh

Is your pic a JPG?
Steve Wincze

Yup .jpg
719kb
R.T. Walsh

Make sure you select the Submit button on the upload panel after the upload and before the Submit button on the thread.
Christopher Couper

Also make sure the file size is less than 1 meg. Jud
J K Chapin

Tried from another computer!
A good looking 60!

R.T. Walsh

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60 years ago today

R.T. Walsh

Happy birthday 8926!

Cheers,
Matthew.
M Magilton

Rick,

Now that's what I call a beautiful friendship!

Congratulations.

Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
R GRANTHAM

RICK,

It looks great from the back also !!!!!

Steve Wincze

And even better from the air !!

Steve

Steve Wincze

Congratulations! Beautiful TF.

Warmly,
dave
Dave Braun

Ah Steve - Thanks for the 2014 BBTS pics. A beautiful day for sure.

Here is a question - I was curious how many TF's were built the day mine was. I looked up the build dates on the T-register production "factory records" site for those units either side of my TF8926 and it appears as though TF8919 through TF8939 were all built on the 19th of January 1955 - making 21 units that day. However - in the run of these numbers it says TF8934 was built on the 17th of January. It seems odd that the production sequence would jump backwards two days for TF8934. Is it possible this is a typo? Does someone have another "factory record' to determine when TF8934 was built? Was it the 17th or the 19th?
Rick
R.T. Walsh

RTWalsh-I am not sure if I know the answer to your question but I found an inspection sheet behind the kick panel of my TF showing that it was pulled off the line to fix some paint defects,etc. over a period of days, which I guess would have put it out of sequence with other cars on the line.
JKB
J K Barter

Happy belated birthday!
Geoffrey M Baker

I wanted to share what I learned from some direct email conversations
with Tom Lange. Tom has an interesting resource of MG production records and was able to answer my question - how many TF's were made the same day as mine - January 19th, 1955 ? (TF8926). The answer is a total of 44 units. It was interesting to learn they were not made consecutively by chassis number but rather in batches by color.
It was possible to determine how many were for home market and export, RHD vs. LHD, and lacquer vs. enamel.
There were 8 units HDE43 - like mine.
Thanks Tom!

Rick Walsh
R.T. Walsh

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