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To: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>,
Subject: Re: Engines
From: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:05:03 +0000
Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> A week or two ago I sent my GBP5.00 cheque off to the DVLA, and this
> morning I received photocopies of every document they have on file
> relating to Carly.   I learnt three things that surprised me - firstly
> that the registration number (DHO36S) wasn't first issued to a D. Hobbs
> - secondly that the car has lived almost everywhere in England; from
> Salisbury to Grimsby, from Dover to Nottingham - and thirdly, that the
> engine was replaced in August, 1994.
>
> I'd never checked the numbers on my engine block before, but now I find
> that I have a 1500 Dolomite engine under the bonnet!   Are there any
> differences between the Dolly engine and the Spit one?   The Engine
> number is YC49683HEA.
>

Join the band, I found out mine was a dolly engine two weeks ago!
Only difference I could see was that it had single valve springs rather than the
usual double (thats what made me look at the numbers initially!)
Cheers
Tim

>
> ATB
> --
> Mike
> Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
> http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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