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MG TD TF 1500 - Unknown Potential TD Brackets

I found these two in my TD junk box last night fishing around for the spacer on the exhaust clamp (I found it).

I have no idea what they are for, if anything. At some point in time I felt they were important enough to receive a coat of shiny black paint.

They are about 2" long and 1" high and pretty heavy gauge metal. The holes are not countersunk and you cannot even get a 1/4" bolt through them. The two holes don't line up perfectly so it looks a bit like a hack job.

All I can think of is glove box or perhaps the underdash, or more likely it was some brackets my father built to hold a radio or some other device at one time.


Chris Couper

Chris

Thought they looked familiar so looked back over some of my TD restoration pictures and have attached a picture of the same brackets as found on my early TD

Brian


Brian Smith (1950 TD3376)

OK. That looks like them. I made a new sub dash and I probably had no idea what those things were for so I left them out.

I left out the upper stiffeners too but I am re-installing them now.

So what are these things for? Optional radio?
Chris Couper

These are the brackets that hold the under dash to the dashboard.
D. Sander

If they are for the underdash I am confused about the picture above with them around the glovebox. Were there more than 2?
Chris Couper

Mounted upside down?
D. Sander

David, I thought they were to mount a radio? My old and original underdash shield had flat metal brackets attached to the shield's bottom surface, that extended out about a half inch. There are two countersunk holes for wood screws, which screw it to the lower dash panel edge. George
George Butz

I always figured they were for a radio.


Dave Braun

Now I see there is another piece on top that I will never hook up. I will have to hunt them down too :-)
Chris Couper

They are for mounting a radio. If you can find an original glovebox you will see indentations in the sides where those brackets are located. Wish I'd photographed the one from 'the53' before it changed hands. Bud
Bud Krueger

i have the holes for mounting those brackets on my sub-panel, but no brackets. regards, tom
tom peterson

Chris,

Attached is a copy of part of the installation guide for the HMV 4100 radio in a TD . you can just see these brackets in the diagram.

John


J Scragg

John: That's super.

Can you send me a high res version of that so I can add it to the TD pages? Credit gladly given
Chris Couper

Think the radio may be correct Here is a picture of an original under dash shield and your's do look a bit shorter.


Bruce Cunha

Are those speaker holes? You don't have an original radio do you?
Chris Couper

Hi Chris

They are speaker holes, but No, I don't have a radio. Got this from one of the members. I used it to make a pattern It came with all the parts/brackets. I have the wood off for these pictures.

Bruce Cunha

Chris,

In case you are looking for a radio, I have a period correct Motorola AM tube-type radio that I bought a number of years ago. It even came with a half-depth replacement TD glove box that the radio dial and knobs fit into. I rebuilt the radio but couldn't at that time find a suitable speaker that fit the inside of the case, so I never installed it.
Lew Palmer

Chris,

For period car radios I posted a contact on this BBS a few months ago. Below is a copy.

For images see the thread in the archives entitled "period radio"


John


For those of you who are interested in period accessories, I have found an excellent supplier of original valve (tube) car radios for the TD.

He is: Arthur Lowrey in UK
Email: Arthur dot lowrey at btinternet dot com
Phone number: + 44 1 743 354 098

The model for the TD was the HMV 100, later TDs used the HMV 4000 series.


J Scragg

Curiousity got the best of me. I went through the left over TD parts (Yes, I saved everything). And I found these. When I saw them I remembered they were on the dashboard. I learned something new.
-David
D. Sander

Lew: Can you take a few pictures of your radio setup and send them to me so I can post them on the accessories pages?
Chris Couper

This thread was discussed between 05/09/2013 and 08/09/2013

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