Hello all,
These Body numbers were not very consistent at all due to the order in which
they were brought onto the Longbridge final assembly line. They had come off
Jensen's line in numerical body number order, but the assembled and painted
body shells, mounted on rolling dollies were loaded onto transporters, 5 at
a time, arriving at the Longbridge holding area. They were taken off the
transporters and marshalled onto the final assembly line. That's where they
became very much out of order, first onto the transporters were last off,
many transporters were lined up for unloading, etc. but of course it really
didn't matter as far as assembly went.
Then of course there could have been many reasons to hold a car back for
some reason, specific coloured parts not arriving on time, a glitch in the
fitting of some mechanical component, so the car had to be set aside for end
of line rectification, etc.
There is quite a wide and varied order I've been able to trace and document
on the Hundred Registry records.
Rich Chrysler
Hundred Registrar
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Roland Wilhelmy
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:11 PM
To: Mr. Bill
Cc: Healey
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 57 Today
#724 was completed November 13th. Yes, it was a Friday. Maybe there
was an unavailable part that came in during October and November and a
bunch of backed-up cars were completed quickly?
-Roland
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:18:15 -0700, you wrote:
::Hi Steve,
::
::Great, mild day for a drive down here in So Cal.
::
::Is "still going strong" why you got the Hard Luck Awardfor Rendezvous
::2010? :-)
::
::My car is body #663 with a build date of 5 Nov. 65 cars in 8 days;that's
::quite a speedy production line for such a small company.
::
::Bill Barnett
::'53 Red Car
::'61 Green Car
::
::On 10/29/2010 12:25 Big Blue, ATIGHTPROD@aol.com wrote:
::> Today my car turns 57 years old. And yes, I will be driving it today in
::> celebration of its continued service. Just thought I'd pass the info
along.
::> 52,000 original miles and still going strong.
::> Steven Kingsbury
::> BN1 #598
::>
::>
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