Randall wrote:
> His justification for that number is a bit sketchy, as he gives the first
> commission number in 1961 as TS82030 and the first number in 1962 as
> TS82340; which looks like only 310 cars. But he does mention that many cars
> were finished out of sequence, so perhaps the difference is earlier cars
> that required rework or something like that.
Also 1961 just happened to be the year when Standard-Triumph was bought by
Leyland Motors. For a
quite prolonged period, there was no production on any cars at all as the
company was effectively
bankrupt and Leyland were busily engaged in sorting out the financial chaos
that prevailed. In
addition, many suppliers had put the company on their "Stop" lists so no
components were being
delivered until accounts were cleared and new credit arrangements made.
As for the sequencing of commission numbers, very few cars ever were built in
numerical sequence.
Commission numbers were allocated by Production Control eight weeks before the
car appeared on the
paint line - so that is the first fragmentation. Second fragmentation was
*Track Loading.* There
were 3 assembly tracks for the whole model range (so you build the majority
vehicles first) and
third fragmentation was determined by supplier componenty. There were other
fragmentations caused by
Letter of Credit delays for export cars and of course, strikes that screwed up
everything. Wouldn't
surprise me at all if 1961 saw a very small number of TR's built for anywhere.
There wasn't much of
anything else built either - except a lot of Heralds for the UK market which
the dealers couldn't
sell :)
Jonmac
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