Nice one Lew,
Thanks for sharing Bob Clare's input. Actually, Terry Andrews did have it
correct in his article of 1982. He did quote the donor chassis, correctly, as
PA 2068.
I guess dyslexia is more common than what we thought.
I have it on good authority that the "chore' of numbering the chassis was so
"looked down on" at Abingdon that they decided to rotate personnel to this
duty each day.
Wednesday's was allocated to Norman Hardcastle. "A nice lad." When management
discovered that Norman suffered from this disability, in July of '37, they
transferred him to the accounting department. The rest is history, you might
say.
However, I own PA 0512. This is, I found from extensive research, actually
the first PA chassis, which, as you can imagine was stamped on a Wednesday.
Hence, the British ritual of half day closing on Wednesdays.
Thanks Norman. Hwere vere ouy are.
Brain Lekly.
In a message dated 01/08/2002 10:47:16 AM Central Standard Time,
lpalmer@mn.mediaone.net writes:
> The following was received from Bob Clare, the MGCC Triple-M Registrar,
> on the questions of Pas converted to PBs.
>
> Lew,
>
> Where to begin??????
>
> Let's start with the somewhat doubtful experimental PB. This had a
> chassis designated "XX" and an engine bored out to 939cc using PA block
> 1037AP apparently, though the car which originally had that engine still
> exists in the hands of Patrick Gardner and I haven't had a chance to
> check what engine it now has. Anyway, for your purposes I guess you can
> ignore this vehicle.
>
> So to the PB's proper - I agree that Terry Andrews article is very
> useful, however, it contains an error or two including the first PB's
> origin.
> Terry said this was converted from PA 2086. It fact it was PA 2068. So
> we
> have:
>
>
> PB Chassis No PB eng no Converted from
>
> PB 0251 500A199PB PA 2068
> PB 0252 - 0588 501-853A199PB first time production
> PB 0589 - 613 incl 1012-1036AP* PA's 2188, 2196, 2203,2186,
> 2149, 2148, 2039, 2176,
> 2163, 2199, 2184, 2193, 2214,
> 2137, 1960, 2179,
> 2166, 2170, 2180, 2235, 2232,
> 2243, 2238, 2233, & 2229
> in that order.
> PB 0614 - 0711 848-938A199PB first time production
>
> PB 0712 2/538A* PA 2146
>
> PB 0713 - 0775 939-1000A199PB first time production
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