RE: Engine Date Code

["Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>]

Ron,

Your proposed scenario is persuasive and may be correct. However, two
different people Norm talked to told him the suffix was the engine build
date. Also, Norm got microfiche of the Assembly Orders. The ones he printed
in the article include the following note:  "MARK WITH PAINT ENGINE SERIAL
NO. ON L.H. SIDE OF CYL. BLOCK ASSY. /SERIAL NO. TO BE SAME AS ON ENGINE
NAME PLATE-GR. H-32-3/."

Your guess as to precisely what this means is a good as mine. 

Bob