Australian Chevrolet WO database

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

is it your computer which is adding the commas to the engine numbers?

No, it's me! I have the greatest difficulty in reading six-figure and five-figure numbers. It helps to differentiate the last relevant digits, namely the six-figures. GM of Canada's Walkerville, later from 1935 Windsor, Transmission Plant used a similar numbering system to Flint Motor Plant in 1930, 1929 being a hotch-potch of sequences. After that Flint built so many engines that the sequences differed totally from Walkerville's until 1937 when with the new 216 engines, sequences were re-set again, and then confusion could arise again. Windsor re-set numbers in 1946, by the way.

Try this:

2842100041S [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100047S [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100074 ENGINE # SR3836145 [HOLDEN PLANT]
2-8421-00077 SR3835415 [HOLDEN PLANT]
2842100091M ENGINE # SR3851790 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100100 [HOLDEN PLANT] PRESERVED
2842100111P ENGINE # SR3835344 W.O.73 [PERTH PLANT] 10/4/43
28421M00116M ENGINE # SR3781.572 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100128P ENGINE# SR3857769 28 APRIL 1943 [PERTH PLANT]
2842100166 ENGINE # SR3781498 WO1
2842100230M ENGINE SR3779337 WO1 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100244M ENGINE # SR3779671 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100317M ENGINE # PR3835385 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100360S ENGINE # SR3857660 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100373S ENGINE # SR3857763 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100380S ENGINE # SR3857947 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100412S ENGINE # SR3857834 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100415S ENGINE # SR3857753 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100437S ENGINE # SR3857545 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100441S ENGINE # SR3857847 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100479M ENGINE # SR3857960 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 1 MARCH 1943
2842100481S ENGINE # SR3857646 W.O.73 [SYDNEY PLANT] NO ASSEMBLY DATE!
2842100490M ENGINE # PR3849145 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 20 APRIL 1943
2842100506S ENGINE # PR3857638 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100508S ENGINE # WR3815503 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100518S ENGINE # PR3857842 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100519S ENGINE # PR3857844 [SYDNEY PLANT]
2842100538M ENGINE # SR38587018 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 16 MARCH 1943
2842100591M ENGINE # SR3858033 W.O. 73 MARCH 19 1943 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100592M [MELBOURNE PLANT]
2842100609M ENGINE # SR3858180 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 24 MARCH 1943
2842100613M ENGINE # PR3858216 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 24 MARCH 1943
2842100615M ENGINE # SR3858215 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 24 MARCH 1943
2842100706S ENGINE # SR3857699 W.O.73 [SYDNEY PLANT] NO ASSEMBLY DATE!
2842100711M ENGINE # PR3874368 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 14 SEPTEMBER 1943
2842100712M ENGINE # SR3857885 [MELBOURNE PLANT] 7 APRIL 1943
2842100730M ENGINE # PR3874378 [MELBOURNE PLANT]
28421000919 ENGINE # SR3851790 WO12 (WIRELESS) HOLDEN-ASSEMBLED