>From studying Spitfires I can safely say that the earliest Mk1's were marked
with The B prefix to indicate that they were assembled in Belgium. That was
replaced with the 1 prefix some time in 1964 somewhere around serial number
39000. But the interesting thing is that the 2 prefix for cars assembled in
Australia and the 4 prefix for cars assembled in South Africa were begun
being used while the B prefix for Belgium was still in use.
Joe
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From: triumphs-bounces+spitlist=cox.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces+spitlist=cox.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:58 PM
To: Triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Narrowing in on a lost commission number
In a message dated 3/9/2008 11:01:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
standardtriumph@btinternet.com writes:
If CT5521LO was built in Belgium, then the commission number *should* be
1CT5521LO.
==AM==
I have no documentation other than my own observations over the years, but
I
was under the impression that the prefix numbers for various CKD assembly
locales came a bit later, so there might NOT be a leading "1" on an early
CKD
TR4? Also, some Belgian-assembled cars apparently had a leading "B" in the
commission number, but I don't know when that might have occurred, either.
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