[TR] Narrowing in on a lost commission number

[Joe Curry]

>From studying Spitfires I can safely say that the earliest Mk1's were marked
with The B prefix to indicate that they were assembled in Belgium.  That was
replaced with the 1 prefix some time in 1964 somewhere around serial number
39000.  But the interesting thing is that the 2 prefix for cars assembled in
Australia and the 4 prefix for cars assembled in South Africa were begun
being used while the B prefix for Belgium was still in use.

Joe

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In a  message dated 3/9/2008 11:01:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,   
standardtriumph at btinternet.com writes:

If  CT5521LO was built  in Belgium, then the commission number *should* be

1CT5521LO.



==AM==
I have no documentation other than my own observations over the years, but
I 
was under the impression that the prefix numbers for various CKD assembly  
locales came a bit later, so there might NOT be a leading "1" on an early
CKD  
TR4? Also, some Belgian-assembled cars apparently had a leading "B" in the  
commission number, but I don't know when that might have occurred, either.  

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