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Subject: [Healeys] Car Numbers and body numbers
From: austin.healey at gmail.com (Chris Dimmock)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:20:34 +1000
References: <4af7c.15e8db0b.3b51c9a1@aol.com>
Hey Gary, I stand to be corrected, but the unification of numbers  
occurred on BN2's.
BN1's had a body number, a chassis number and an engine number. All  
different. And here in Oz, the closest thing we had to unification was  
a Larke Hoskins number, (Larke Hoskins were the origiginal AH importer/ 
distributor), and their 'car' number was on the their plate, and also  
stamped on the chassis.
Best
Chris
 From my memory.
Most of this is published on Larry Varleys website, and much of this  
is courtesy of Patrick Quinn's tenacious research many years ago

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On 16/07/2011, at 2:49 AM, Editorgary at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/15/11 9:05:08 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
>> I believe that's what I said...
>> *
>> "Blair Harbor's car, the first production AH with body no. 24..."*
>>
>> However I never heard about the switching at the loading and  
>> unloading.  I
>> assumed that Jensen would not discard the first 19 or 20  pre  
>> production
>> car
>> numbers and restart  numbering with the production cars.  Anyone  
>> else out
>> there know about this, or have an opinion?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Curt
>>
> Keep in mind that, at that point in production, body numbers were  
> assigned
> at Jensen, but Car numbers weren't assigned until the body was mated  
> with
> the engine, and then the car number was stamped and recorded to  
> match the
> already assigned engine number. And there's no way of telling  
> without the
> factory records the sequence or numbering of production, since the  
> engine
> numbers
> were in series across several car lines, so consequently there were  
> large
> gaps in car number series.
>
> G.
> ____________________

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