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Originally posted by Rich Payne
Orchard & Madden's "bible" .............According to the factory ledgers, the last machine was delivered on 19/8/1939
While I'm on the subject, does anyone know how the "C" numbers were allocated ? Were they issued and painted on at the factory, sequential to frame numbers or were they added at Chilwell when a whole batch arrived, with no account being taken of frame numbers ?
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Rich,
I see you have Chris Orchards book, I took the completion date from that, so it seems it is not strictly correct if you have seen otherwise in factory records.
The C no's were usually applied on reciept at the Ordnance Depots. I know that some vehicles were out of sequence with chassis numbers, Bedford being one. My BSA WM20 is in line with frame number. You can only find this out by going through Key Cards at what used to be the records at Beverley museum, but now held by the RLC Museum, Deepcut.
Richard