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Chummy body numbers

I am giving Clive Medland a little assistance in the rebuild of his 1928 chunmmy chassis 55072.The body has been bead blasted clean and it has revealed a number on the top of the transmission tunnel just behind the handbrake cover, I don't recognise it .It seems too long? it is 43286. Any help?

Re: Chummy body numbers

Hi Mac,
Could it be A4-3286 ? That series of numbers seems about right for that period.
Clive - a different one !

Re: Re: Chummy body numbers

Can't be body number because have a5-7481 already?

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There should also be the letters AD just above it, thus giving the 43,286th AD body produced. The 'Car No.' is A5-7481, this is the number that Austin's would have refered to in the A5 series Ledger, all other number information being second line, as I understand it. You will recall the Car No. Ali olate is one that says "Quote This Number".

See Phil Baildons excellent article on 'Always Quote this number' in the Grey Book - 1990A or visit the Associations web site at http://www.a7ca.org/Registers/Quote%20this%20number.pdf for an Adobe pdf file.

Sandy

Re: Chummy body numbers

Thanks for the input. I personally won't see it until friday .I didn't recognise it's description as there was no pre fix. will look carefully.

Re: Chummy body numbers

......Or just go to the Associations web site www.a7ca.org then click on the Chassis Register and in the blurb you'll see (always) 'Quote this Number' underlined, click on this and it will bring up the full article as a Adobe pdf file.

For those who do not have Adobe pdf reader on their system, it can be downloaded free from the Associations web site, one of it's uses is that all government forms etc on the internet are in Adobe .pdf format. Oh and you'll need it to look at the 100+ pages of Stanley Edges notebook on the Association web site, plus all the other things to be uploaded in time.

Of course things like the 'Always Quote this Number' will eventually be on this web site FAQ's pages.

Sandy

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Sandy

Is 'Ali olate' Cornish for rtfp (where p=plate?)

Something for you to ponder in the wee small hours.

Mike

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Mile, ooops the keys keep moving, or my fingers are getting tired.

Of course I hope your not picking on the dyslexic, and lets not forget the Oxford (and others) Dictionary are only a GUIDE to both English spelling and prononciation, it is an evolving language.

At present there are three different Cornish Dictionary's, so no overall consensus as to how things should be spelt or pronounced. In it's simplest form there are two ways to say 'White House', there's 'White House' (derived from Middle English etc) and 'House White' as used in say French, Breton and Spanish.

Ali olate, yes it should be 'plate' and I suppose for Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells it should be 'Aluminium' as well.

It's to late for nit picking....... but have you checked some of your recent contributions?

Sandy

Re: Re: Chummy body numbers

Trying to connect numbers on Chummy tunnels with chassis or Car numbers appears to be a very painful business. As one who was involved with the restoring &/or new body-building of over 200 A7s, I have to say very few have made sense - eg : A9 9351 had 60274 on tunnel, a late-'28 roadster had 60149 on tunnel, a '27 model Chummy had an even higher number stamped etc. I thought that this confusion was only peculiar to us in Oz, but obviously others are puzzled in UK too. One thing I can say is I've never found AD or any similiar letters with these high numbers, just the numbers - excepting B2 8054 had UE 70 stamped, and a mid-'30 fabric saloon which had a Longbridge body (came here via NZ) had a tunnel number which seemed okay with chassis and car number. Cheers, Bill

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Gmae, set and mtach to Sandy!

Never-the-less I think we should keep 'Ali O'Late' (as in party)on board for future reference. Perhaps he is the original Irish Egyptian who had an Austin 6 1/2

Mike


p.s. Seriously now, why does this Forum not have a spell checker??

Re.Re Spelin mistaks can be avoidead

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Re: Re.Re Spelin mistaks can be avoidead

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Oy! You takin' ther P155 or summin?