TR3 body number

[Nancy and Bob Wise <wises@new.rr.com>]

I purchased my 1960 TR3 18 years ago.  At the time of purchase it did 
not have a body number plate (brass, on firewall above battery box) 
and, now that I think about it, no obvious indication that one had 
been removed.  Recently I got my BH build certificate and although it 
had a commission number and engine number, the BH people could not 
provide a body number.

Is it possible my car never had a body number plate?

Am I doomed to perpetual body-number-plateness?

Bob