John & everyone else who replied,
Thanks for the very interesting information about build dates vs despatch
dates for our cars. My thanks also to those who run this list...it is
certainly an amazing resource. Thanks for bringing us all together for
these kinds of discussions..
Steve
(Waterlogged in "sunny" California)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
To: "Ted" <triumphcars@gmail.com>; "Steve Ball" <banjonut@verizon.net>;
"Jeff Johnson" <mondoluxe@ameritech.net>; "Triumph List"
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: Another kind of birthday?
> In an attempt to clarify....
>
> Standard-Triumph bodies were manufactured at different locations at
> different times. Broadly, TR and other smaller saloons were built at
> Liverpool.
> Spitfire, Herald and GT6 were made in Coventry at the Tile Hill plant and
> all the rest at Swindon by Pressed Steel.
> Correct, it could take several days to complete a car from a naked shell
> to
> a finished unit.
>
> Usually, the build date was the day the car came off Final Finish as a
> finished car. The despatch date was the day it was handed over to the car
> delivery company who had the contract to store the car until authorised by
> the factory to take it to the selling dealer or the docks for final
> shipment
> to its destination market.
>
> I anticipate there may be one or two responses that others claim their
> BMIHT
> Certificate uses different nomenclature. This is simply because the
> nomenclature on the production tally cards varied over the years but the
> foregoing info is very much in the ballpark in terms of what the dates
> mean.
>
> Jonmac
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