>My certified copy of the factory record from British Motor Industry
>Heritage Trust lists "Date of Build" as "February 1960 (not
>recorded)", and it lists "Date of Despatch" as "19 February 1960".
>I'm just wondering what "date of despatch" means? Could it be the
>date it left the factory? Or the date it left the dock on the ship?
>I don't have a clue, but either way it seems like an important date
>for this LBC, and a good excuse to uncork the single malt for a
>"Happy 45th Birthday" toast.
I wondered the same thing. My assumption has been that it took a
number of days to build the car. I think I read somewhere that the
body was built in a different location and trucked in for final
assembly. Thus I also assumed that the "despatched date" was the day
it actually left the factory.
John
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