The seal is a print mark from the steelmakers........
RT&B = Richard Thomas and Baldwins
Ebbw Vale is the Steel Works town location in Wales.
The numbers will be a batch and perhaps date code.
A good find, thanks for sharing.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: <servaij@cris.com>
To: "Alpine List" <alpines@autox.team.net>; "Ian -org"
<ian@sunbeamalpine.org>; "Scott E. Christie" <schristie@mail.usfli.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Scott Cristie's Series III Restoration
> Everyone,
> Well Ian and I have a full day moving around cars and cleaning up our
> storage area, and one momentous thing was the starting of Scott's
> restoration of his Series IIIST. Ian and I moved the freshly dipped body
> shell to my shop before the snow storm moves in this Holiday weekend (In
> Dayton). Here are a few pics of Scott's car body in my mobility frame.
>
> http://www.sunbeamalpine.org/jans_pics/scotts.JPG
>
> An interesting seal painted or etched into the floorpan:
>
> http://www.sunbeamalpine.org/jans_pics/seal.JPG
>
> You see, if I had this body sandblasted, little cool details like this
> would be certainly lost forever.
> Jan
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