06-06-2020, 05:05 PM
Any advance on 26th March being last Type I ?!
is it possible that the oblong bit was introduced because the casting might have been thin and not taking well to lots of stamping near the filler hole?
Why else might they want the serial number block so prominent? (indeed, the ratio had moved onto there too by '29)
Tony G - it only needs someone to do a little sorting of one topic; anyway, the GE and Nippy archive have developed pretty damn quickly I'd say. It essentially boils down to someone needing to distil the bits which are on message and discard the bits which are duplicated or leading to a final position. This thread for instance boils down to a range of axle photos and the conclusion that Type 1s presently ended sometime after X and before 27.3.24, when a Type 2 etc etc. And the discussion of an 'S' stamp at the beginning of the serial. Perhaps names of contributors noted if being taken to file in another location, out of courtesy? And a hotlink to the original threads.
Perhaps someone needs to set up a pre '25 archive...
is it possible that the oblong bit was introduced because the casting might have been thin and not taking well to lots of stamping near the filler hole?
Why else might they want the serial number block so prominent? (indeed, the ratio had moved onto there too by '29)
Tony G - it only needs someone to do a little sorting of one topic; anyway, the GE and Nippy archive have developed pretty damn quickly I'd say. It essentially boils down to someone needing to distil the bits which are on message and discard the bits which are duplicated or leading to a final position. This thread for instance boils down to a range of axle photos and the conclusion that Type 1s presently ended sometime after X and before 27.3.24, when a Type 2 etc etc. And the discussion of an 'S' stamp at the beginning of the serial. Perhaps names of contributors noted if being taken to file in another location, out of courtesy? And a hotlink to the original threads.
Perhaps someone needs to set up a pre '25 archive...