Imported from years of club emails (sent round Graeme Oxley's Stag Forum email list). Names, dates and details may be incomplete or wrong. If you spot a mistake, please let us know and we'll fix it. Got old Stag emails, from before 2017 or on a subject that isn't here yet? Forward them to mail@triumphstag.info and we'll add them to the archive.
Our Stag is tagged as a APR 1974 car and has the Safety Belt light between the tacho and speedo as per item 3 of the attached handbook. The speedo of our Stag is in MPH with KMs in smaller lettering underneath.
I Would be very hard to find 2 Stags of the same year that would be identical after 40+ years.
Hard to compare vehicles and get an accurate year time-frame without looking at the build number and suffix. This also gives us the best indication of what probably did or did not go on the car from the factory and which market it was intended for.
Initial Stag production was on the TR6 line. TR6 production ceased in August 1976 hence assembly moving to the Innsbruck Line.
Never going to be precise to work out an exact month/year combination of our vehicles (as per most vehicle manufacture) as the Stag had a tiny unit run and was built in small batches with production varied during its life. The factory would have made minor changes to suit flow and assembled slightly differing minor items that were readily available to hand at the time eg. tire brands.
My fourth sanction car for example (LD34410A) had probably finished completion around the end of '74 for a '75 year badge. It was sold in Essendon Victoria in 1976 to its first owner as a dealer demo and subsequently registered as a 1976 car....
Production LD numbers between sanctions were not numerically sequential and overlapping of some sanctions did occur, for example as second sanction spec cars were still being completed likely finishing their run third sanction vehicles (Mark II) began at the same time.
From what I can gather the later/newer seat belt warning light on top of and in-between the speedo/tacho came in from LD38324 in July 1975 and as Roger has mentioned and indicated from the drivers handbook probably only for the UK market. My dashboard as an earlier Australian delivered fourth sanction car being exactly the same as Roger's later Aussie fifth sanction car.
You could certainly write a book about the minor differences as the cars went along. My '74 completed - LD34410A -Aussie car does have the full emission (except for the radiator bolted plastic anti run on valve), has the Kph only speedo Vic mentioned and has no side impact protection in the doors (a spare USA set of doors I have certainly does).
Was good to see Roger attach a page from a later edition of the drivers handbook - and curious to know which edition.
For those that are interested I have attached extracts of the 11/1970 3rd Edition handbook as well as an extract of the 2/1975 7th Edition (from my Aussie car) showing no seat belt lights but a difference in the warning light clusters - have a look to see.
JY
