Interesting bit of British automobile trivia

Whilst researching our British cars, I came across an interesting fact.
I was looking at the track dimension (Track being the dimension from the centre of the tyre on one side to the centre of the tyre on the other side). It appears that when designers in the UK were going to design a new model, they all started out with the same track dimension despite the size of the car. Here are the figures :--

MGB            50"  late  49" early
TR6              50"
Healy 3000   50"
MG TD         50" rear    48"front
E TYPE        50"

The cars length varies from 12'1" to  14' 7"
In those days if it works, don't change it !!!

Kelvin

1 comment:

Ralph H said...

And a good thing too. that is why I was able to swap my 1961 MGA differential out for an older (mid1950's) differential from a Wolseley