Morris Minor Owners Club

Someone on the Dutch Morris forum wants to know what engine he has.
His number is 8G162 ER87017
.Underneath that number is stamped AD.

It must be a gold seal engine because of 8G but I don't know about the other letters.

Regards
Jan

803 has a screw on oil filter on the side of the block
948 has 950 cast on the block above the tappet chest
1098 has 1100 on a plate above the tappet chest
1275 has no tappet chests

Thank you Mike!
I hoped the letters could tell us something.
Regards jan

GOLD SEAL EXCHANGE ENGINES.
BMC like many firms did an exchange scheme for worn engines, one was the Gold
Seal engine, a complete engine ready to fit and painted gold in colour. The other was
the Silver Seal exchange engine, basically a short-block for the owner/garage to fit the
old head,sump, and ancillories onto.
Both used a similar system of engine numbering, the original number being struck off.
Initially all engines in the scheme were prefixed 8G, soon a better system followed:-
'A' series engines were prefixed 8G,- 803cc, 848cc, 948cc, 1098cc, 1275cc.
'B' series were prefixed 84G,- 1200cc, 1489cc, 1588cc, 1622cc, 1798cc.
'C' series were prefixed 86G,- 2693cc, 2912cc.
The code after was to do with rebore/regrind sizes and a job number.

I knew the number was difficult to "understand" but you made it clearer to me now.

Thank you .
regards Jan