Healey Tickford Saloon History

Introduced in 1950 as the successor to the Elliott, the Healey Tickford was bodied by the coachbuilder Tickford (later part of Aston Martin) and sat on Healey's updated Riley-engined chassis which now featured Girling brakes. It was described in period as 'certainly the prettiest closed Healey, complete with proper boot.'

Still powered by the Riley 2.4-litre twin-cam, the Tickford was heavier than the earlier cars but more refined and better equipped, with genuinely comfortable four-seat accommodation and proper luggage space — making it more of a grand touring car than an outright sports machine.

The Tickford was the most numerous of all the Riley-engined Healeys, with 222 produced from 1950 until the company wound down its independent production in 1954 as the Austin-Healey partnership with BMC took over volume manufacturing.