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MG TD TF 1500 - TC/TD/TF Strikers

It seems that the early TD may have been fitted with the narrow TC striker & was subsequently replaced with the wider version as fitted to the later TD and TF. Pics of both the wide & narrow types are shown below. Can anyone confirm if this is the case & if so when was the likely changeover date? Cheers
Peter TD 5801

P Hehir

Pic 2 showing the wider striker. Cheers
Peter TD 5801

P Hehir

I’ve never noticed this before. I’ll have to go through my old ones to verify on TD-4834 and TD/c-8151.

Bill Chasser
TD-4834
W A Chasser

TD3042 (August 1950 build) always had the wider striker. The narrow one was most certainly used on the TC and the late Triple-M cars Ps and Ns.
Lew Palmer

Lazarus, TD10855 (October 1951) has the wide strikers). Bud
Bud Krueger

A comparison shot......

Mike
TF-8257

M Brand

TD 1250 has the wider strikers.
L E D LaVerne

This may be a pic of an original TD although I'm not sure? I think it came from Matthew M. It has the narrow strikers. Cheers
Peter TD 5801

P Hehir

TFs had the wider striker plate base. i thought TDs also had the wider striker, however perhaps the very early TDs were fitted with the narrow, weaker TC striker. Some changes did occur over time. for example the TF 1250s had slot head Door Hinge bolts whereas the later TF1500s changed to Phillips Head bolts.

Of course many of these components have been changed over from original by previous owners during the cars life.

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
Rob Grantham

TD 4139 has the wider
Bruce Cunha

Peter, your copied image shows the A pillar trim panel with a wider space for the wider striker plate. someone has fitted a TC striker to this car.

My parts books do not show any other part number than the wide striker.

All the TD's I have had in and seen including one of the first production cars TD's that was in New Zealand had wide striker plates.
Rod Brayshaw

Old Abingdon catalog shows narrow TC and wide TD, factory spec book only one for TD. Look at the pair of pictures: what is the ID plate in front of the latch? In the lower picture, I think the seat adjustment bracket is shaped wrong for a TD, and the SC box closing strap is horizontal with a lift the dot rather than the correct vertical with snap. Not sure the picture is from a TD, or perhaps one custom bodied TD or something? George
George Butz

Thanks to you all for your posts. It seems certain that the narrow striker is for the TC & the wider one is for both the TD & TF. I can now proceed to make & cover the front quarter panels with confidence. George, Matthew should be able to shed more light on the pic in question as I think he took it. Cheers
Peter TD 5801
P Hehir

I think Peter's images are of a TC

L E D LaVerne

Peter

I looked at my original strikers off of TD-4834 and they were indeed the wide base strikers. And the plates are wide based as well. I have looked at my other cars as well, all wide based.

Bill Chasser
TD-4834
TD/c-8151
TD/c-16920
TD-19408
TD-24060
W A Chasser

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