NZ Universal Carrier

[Andrew Rowe]

Hi William,
That is one of the lowest Hull numbers I have seen in New Zealand for the Local production Carriers for the LP2 and LP2A variants. Currently I have one with 41
in the wkshop at the moment, and one of my old ex-hull numbers was 176, out of around the 1200 odd that were built. This number is just Hull build number from the railways wkshops as I believe they were the main fabricators of the Hulls, and does not relate too much to "T " numbers or NZ numbers , other than this would have been issued with a lower number compared to others further down the build line.
Sometimes the "T" number is stamped on the top edge Face of the other tow eye, but not always. Cheers Andrew.