Larry Schwartz wrote:
> list. with regards to the tr3's comm. numbers. my number is TS77317LOZ.
> (year> 1960) does anyone know what the last letter Z stand for? if i am not
> mistaken, it means that the car is a left over from the prior year or a carry
> over from the current year.
Larry, I think the best place to address your question is the Heritage Motor
Centre at Gaydon in the
UK from where Heritage Certificates are issued. I've just checked the website
and there is a new
service just released about obtaining 'basic' information. Click on
http://shop.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/shop/heritage-certificates/archive-research-services/archive-research-services-10401/index.html
and you'll see for GBP3.75 (multiply by about 1.45 to get it into $'s) you can
ask a related
question to do with production searches. It's an email request of you and the
site says you'll get
an email reply. Don't know whether your query is covered by this research
facility but its worth
asking. When I worked there I did use an archive reference book on many
occasions that dealt with
special Triumph codes. Absolutely NFI on my part but with respect, your
interpretation is unlikely
to be the correct assumption. Any car left 'in stock' between one year and
another would have been
because there was a drawdown problem on the letter of credit to pay for it -
and a strike or
production shortage would have caused this. Contrary to populat opinion, at no
time in the post-war
years did the company ever build cars 'for stock' except in very limited
numbers. Even in the 1960's
territorial specifications varied widely and too widely to risk working capital
exposure by making
cars on the basis they *might* sell somewhere, some day. Such a situation would
in no way affect the
commission number which would have been allocated, cast in bronze and
unalterable some eight weeks
before the car actually came into existence. I have a sneaky feeling that
possibly the 'Z' may refer
to the actual factory build location where this wasn't Coventry. Prior to
commission numbers having
numerical prefixes - e.g. 1FH meant a Belgian built Spitfire, I think the build
location was an
alpha suffix and I think, though I can't be sure your car was built in Ireland
from a kit. Anyway,
Gaydon should be able to tell you.
My 2 pee's worth
Jonmac
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