A-HAH!! Just as I thought-dozens of "Fakes"!!!!!!!!!
Bring out the guillotines!! These cars were tampered with by other artists!
Best,
Ray (laughing!)
>
>
> PB Chassis No PB eng no Converted from
>
> PB 0251 500A199PB PA 2068
> PB 0252 - 0588 501-853A199PB first time production
> PB 0589 - 613 incl 1012-1036AP* PA's 2188, 2196, 2203,2186,
> 2149, 2148, 2039, 2176,
> 2163, 2199, 2184, 2193, 2214,
> 2137, 1960, 2179,
> 2166, 2170, 2180, 2235, 2232,
> 2243, 2238, 2233, & 2229
> in that order.
> PB 0614 - 0711 848-938A199PB first time production
>
> PB 0712 2/538A* PA 2146
>
> PB 0713 - 0775 939-1000A199PB first time production
>
> *Without going up to Abingdon I'm not sure whether these numbers were
> all stamped on their blocks as ????A199PB or are as they appear here
> which is what is recorded in the chassis and build book summaries which
> I keep here for reference. They may appear in my summary records like
> this simply because there was no room in the column space to put "APB"
> so the clerical
> folk left out the "PB" or the "B". I suspect that's the explanation
> since
> PB 0283, which originally had engine number 538A199PB, lost that engine
> on 25/10/35. If it was re-used, then it would probably have been
> numbered 2/538A199PB, or 2/538APB for short. Thus "1012-1036AP" above
> should probably read "1012-1036A199PB" and "2/538A" should read
> "2/538A199PB".
>
> So Terry's numbers were correct, a total of 27 PA's were converted to
> PB's.
>
> So far as records show, all the converted cars used both the chassis and
> engines from their respective PA parents except PB 0712. Its parent PA
> had engine number 2422AP originally but lost that and had a strange
> replacement numbered EX5978/2 at some point before the chassis was
> converted. Its PB engine almost certainly came from PB 0283 as
> mentioned above.
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