LouiseM wrote:
According to Paul Skilleter's book the first experimental 'face-lift model' with new style grille & fascia appears to have been built on 21/9/54. It was a black 2 door with red trim and had body number 117540. It had an initial chassis number of EX/FBA 11/251 and was subsequently re-numbered FBA/11/482 and dispatched on 7/1/57.
Bum... ahh well, that killed my theory.
My Minor:
A Clarendon Grey 1953 4 Door Series II.
MMOC - 66535
Now, the chassis change points quoted in parts books and production
records apply to ALL models, however, as Cowley produced Minor carried
a separate producton number (the body number), THIS recorded change
points made on the Cowley production line.
Therefore, it is plausable that Cowley's production of the "facelift" model
began BEFORE the chassis change points quoted in books.
So, does anyone out there own a pre 10/54 "facelift" Minor?
Chris
Further investigations uncovered it was an inside job!!
Anyone thought of the obvious. That the car has been cloned with an earlier logbook to enable a reg number transfer ?? Or it was reshelled sometime after Oct 54.
I did buy an early cheesegrater grilled Traveller once which someone had fitted a later dash to.
1934 Morris 10/4 in Dark Green / Black - BGO517
1953 S11 Traveller in Birch Grey - oldest survivor ? Export model now reg PPO924
1953 S11 Traveller in Black - 3rd oldest in UK PPX344
