In a message dated 1/28/2005 1:32:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Bob Nogueira"
<nogera@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>Anyone really familiar with TR engine numbers? A discussion came up in a
>Morgan group about how the engines supplied by Triumph to Morgan were
>numbered in sequence with the Triumph numbers but carried a different
>suffix. Review of the Morgan factory log indicates that the engines for
>Morgan were made in batches thus groups of engines having consecutive
>numbers.
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That sounds plausible.
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>Someone raised the question that Since Triumph used the engine number as
>the chassis number this would mean that there are holes in the sequence of
>Triumph chassis numbers.
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Uh, no. Triumph did NOT use the engine number as the chassis number; they're
two separate numbers, usually within a few hundred of each other but really not
directly related at all.
--Andy Mace
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