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Just a question re chassis number location. My RP chassis is stamped as per normal by the left hand rear engine mounting bolt hole,but whilst doing a clean up I discovered another stamping on the right hand chassis rail ending just by the rivet for the front casting. Has anyone seen this on theirs? The stamp format/font look the same as the ,worn, original.
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19-10-2018, 07:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-10-2018, 09:25 PM by Martin Prior.)
I've never seen a stamping there on an RP; on earlier cars they were at the front, but I think on the left. I assume that it's the same number, Peter (?). Does it look fresher than the "worn original"?
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perhaps you have a repaired chassis, bits of this and bits of that ??
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Both my 1929 chassis have the number stamped next to the engine mount and again immediately next to the nose piece casting. The nose piece casting numbers are in a smaller typeface.
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To quote 'Identifying Austin Sevens'
"At first the number was stamped on the nearside rail, forward of the front engine mounting on the nearside.
Then sometime in the late '20s the works moved the numbering along the rail to just forward of the rear engine mount, adding the engine number.
In the early 30's only the chassis number was marked and located behind the rear engine mounting."
Ruaridh's picture seems to show only the chassis number so there are some variations which also include the unbodied chassis sent to Australia in the late 20's with no chassis number stamping at all.
The dual stamped chassis are another possible variant.