[Tigers] Cubby Box Renewal?

[Marc James Small]

At 02:37 PM 5/24/2013, Jay Laifman wrote:
>Yeah, but my point was that even at the very
>end, they were still using rivets.
>
>Also, I remember reading in one of the books
>that the shut down was not expected.  So that it
>wasn't like they had to throw parts together to
>get them out the door.  Instead, they were left
>with extra parts. I don't know which one is
>true.  I just know I read that in one of the Sunbeam books.

Jay

The Alpine IV came with a flat bolt at the end of
the crank.  On the V, they went back to the
earlier version with the hand-crank
fitting.  Occam's Razor certainly suggests that
they used up the last of the flat-headed bolts
when they converted from the IV to the V and that
they were low on funds to buy more.  And then
someone with an historical bent of mind slapped
himself on the forehead and said, 'wait a minute,
chaps!  We have boxes and boxes of those old hand
cranks and hand-crank bolts over in Warehouse
14!  Let's use them to save some bucks!"

We know that somewhere between late Tiger I and
early Tiger II production, they began to use the
stapled cubbies.  I would suggest that the one in
your uber-late Alpine V was a riveted one just
because they were using up old stock.  Nothing else makes much sense.

Marc



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