[TR] Narrowing in on a lost commission number

[John Macartney]

Darrell

If CT5521LO was built in Belgium, then the commission number *should* be
1CT5521LO. Maybe the original was never fitted or got changed at some later
date? The 1 prefix was applied to all Mechelen built cars to identy them as
Belgian build.

As for the absence of the body number, this isn't surprising either. Whether
shipped out of Coventry as CKD or SKD, all the Coventry supplied components
were shipped in a huge timber crate and referred to on the shipping manifest,
Certificate of Origin and final invoice as Batch X of Z Batches. Furthermore,
it was common with certain overseas assembly plants (but not all) to not
attach a body number or any other component with serial numbers. This gave a
convenient degree of *latitude* in the interpetation of how much of the
finished vehicle was of 'local content' by volume or by value. Essentially,
the higher the local content, the lower the import duty.

BMIHT (in the person of Anders Clausager, now with Jaguar) told me more than
once that Triumph build records for CKD/SKD shipments were never recovered
from the factory prior to demolition. Consequently, the number of cars built
in total at Coventry is probably about 75-80% of all builds around the world
and the company did have 12 overseas assembly plants apart from Coventry.

As for your last sentence, beware of rules. Rules are to be broken and when it
comes to UK motor vehicles the one thing that was always constant, was change
:)

Jonmac
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: TR250Driver at aol.com
  To: nwolf at u.washington.edu ; standardtriumph at btinternet.com
  Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
  Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [TR] Narrowing in on a lost commission number


  Nick,
  Just a side issue on CT 5521 LO.  It was a CKD car originally dispatched to
Belgium according to  BMIHT.  It also has no body number!  Zip! The previous
owner who bought it from the original owner claims it never had a tag either,
just the holes where the tag should be.   BMIHT claims the Body # was not
recorded so they are no help.  As I said previously this car breaks all the
rules, I gave up a long time ago.
  Cheers.
  Darrell





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