What a lovely story. I wrote to the Oxford evening news,many years ago,asking for ex Cowley employees recollections.simmitc wrote:I have spent considerable time looking through the original ledgers, which is exactly what the staff do to produce a certificate. You have to understand that the ledgers are hand written - there was no computerisation! Some clerks were meticulous in recording all the information, others not so. What is there is usually good. but if details are missing, then that's that. There are also examples of cars with two engine numbers. Sometimes one is crossed out, but not always. Many years ago I spoke with one someone who worked in the factory. He explained that if a car was supposed to be blue with blue trim, but they had only red seats available, then the vehicle might get red seats simply to get it out of the door. The production ledger might record either the "correct" colour, or the actual colour. Given the number of staff working on a car in those days, I suspect that there are a great many stories of things that might or might not have happened.
Flippen eck,clean forgot.POMMReg wrote:Should of asked what the chassis prefix J/M meant on Civvy lcv's!
Red Robbo might know !AND "0" - another unexplained LCV prefix.POMMReg wrote:Should of asked what the chassis prefix J/M meant on Civvy lcv's!
Have you tried, The Minor LCV Register ? or Russell Harvey, Minor LCV Historian/ Freelance motoring Journalist ?POMMReg wrote:AND "0" - another unexplained LCV prefix.POMMReg wrote:Should of asked what the chassis prefix J/M meant on Civvy lcv's!
