William McCormack writes:
> I suspect that Alpines were not produced in equal numbers through the
> course of their production run. The Series III production run (which
> is the only one I know anything about) ran from March 1963 to January
> 1964. My series III was made in the late Summer of 1963 and is
> numbered 5690 out of the 5863 that were made. It seems like
> it took Sunbeam quite a while to crank out the last 173 cars. Maybe
> they produced a large inventory at the beginning of a run and then
> paced production later based on sales ... Does anyone else have
> info on Sunbeam production numbers?
The only reference I have here at the office is the Vicky Brit
catalog. Here is what it says:
Series I 11,904
Series II 19,956
Series III 5,863
Series IV 12,406
Series V 19,122
Total 69,251
There were numerous labor problems during the Alpine's production run.
In fact, these labor problems were one of the main causes of the
decline and fall of the Rootes empire. I thought there was something
on the web page about this, but I don't see it. I'll have to rememdy
that...
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