26-06-2020, 03:10 PM
(26-06-2020, 12:33 PM)Reckless Rat Wrote: The chassis number if my RP is 176617 which, if David's car is properly dated would place mine at around the end of May to the beginning of June 33. Quite by chance, when I registered the car here in France several years ago they issued me with the number 8633 YH 30. I guess 8th June probably isn't far off the mark...
RR, that may be more accurate than you imagine. The reasoning goes as follows:-
1. The early type Hardy Spicer prop joint was fitted from 14th June 1933 starting with chassis number 176687
2. Between 5th January '33 Chassis No: 167588) and 21st September '33, Chassis Nu: 180260) 12,672 Sevens were produced, equating to an average of 311 per week.
3. My chassis No: is 176805; i.e 188 chassis after the propshaft joint change. RR's car is 70 chassis before this change.
4. 14th June 1933 was a Tuesday. I understand that the factory did not build cars at the week end, this being reserved for maintenance work.
Therefore: my car was probably built either Friday 17th June or or Monday 20th. Similarly RR's car was probably built built at the back end of the previous week (i.e about the 9th or 10th June)
Incidentally, both RR's and my car are standard saloons! My own car was registered in Fife on 4th July 1933 as FG8659. On 26th August 1973, the file of papers was transferred to Cheshire County Council. However, and unfortunately Cheshire achives have no record of the Registration number, so it appears that the file has been lost. As it happens, I have a continuation RF60 logbook issued by Aberdeen CC on 2nd July 1958 and thus have the history of the car since then. However, the first 25 years of its life remain a mystery.