[Healeys] BN4LS72623

[i erbs]

Thanks, I guess I'm sending money to bmht:)

Mr. Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
On Jan 19, 2016 3:22 PM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:

> Ira,
>
> I think that it probably isn't possible to provide an exact date without
> knowing
> the detailed build rates for the individual months *and* the corresponding
> chassis/engine numbers. The only place that holds those sort of details is
> BMIHT.
>
> According to Clausager 72623 is a mid-production number. It almost
> certainly
> isn't a Longbridge car as the highest known chassis number (according to
> him) is
> 50759.
>
> Here's a stab at the date: the entire second batch of Abingdon cars (the
> late-'58/early-'59 batch) ran to some 8806, going by chassis numbers. Yours
> would then be 3663 into the run (5143 from the end of production).
>
> On the basis of six months production run, about 1470 cars were produced on
> average per month. This would suggest that your car would have bsuggest
> that it
> was built towards the end of November.
>
> BUT you have to take into account ramp-up/ramp-down in production (in
> September
> and March) and also the fact that the plant wouldn't have produced much
> over
> Christmas/New Year; and that in the immediate run-up to Christmas
> production
> would probably have at least slowed. This means that production profile
> would
> have risen between September and November, falling back in December and
> then
> going back to higher levels in January and February before tailing off in
> March
> 59. What we don't know is the actual extent of the variation in
> production. On
> this basis it might appear reasonable to suggest that your car may have
> been
> produced between the last couple of weeks in November and Christmas'58.
>
> You could cross-guesstimate the month by taking the date of first
> registration
> in the US and subtracting two or three months which would probably
> approximate
> the time between roll-out from the shop to arrival in the US. The time
> would
> vary, of course, depending on where it was delivered to and at what point
> the
> then-current US rules required it to be registered (e.g. on first arrival
> in the
> US, on delivery to the dealer, on sale etc.).
>
> Sorry not to be more helpful,
>
> Peter
>
> On 19/01/2016 21:09, i erbs wrote:
> > Trying to figure out approx. when my car was produced without going the
> BHMT
> > route. Not finding it on the Internet
> > BN4LS72623 My guess is late 58 as it has been registered as a 59. but can
> > someone help narrow it down to a month?
> > Ira Erbs
> > Portland,OR
> > 1959 BN4 100-6
> > with BT7 engine and disk brakes.
> >
> >
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> ===========================================================
> Dr Peter Dzwig
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