ID plate question

[moparrangie]

What is the smaller ID plate at the top about? Have done ID on the larger plate and checked the engine number.

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[101RRS]

The vehicle was assembled by the Pressed Metal Corp in Sydney and that is their assembly plate - gives model and sequence number.

So the 190th 86" they built.

Garry

[moparrangie]

Thanks mate I just found that after searching around a bit more

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[moparrangie]

Engine number comes up to be a 58 not a 56 model
111801098

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[JDNSW]

Engine number comes up to be a 58 not a 56 model
111801098

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May not be the original engine - Series 2 88s had the 2l engine, and it is a good guess that many of these had the engine replaced by the new 2.25 engine early in their life, particularly by fleet owners going to all Series 2, so these engines would have been a likely replacement for worn engines in Series 1s. Or, in a mixed S1/S2 fleet the engine from a wrecked one could simply replace a worn engine.SMHEA would have been the largest fleet owner at that date, but there were a lot of other government fleets as well.

John

[moparrangie]

Thanks for that. I guess after so many years It still having a rover engine in it is a plus.

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[harry]

ooh, runs outside to find the number on my plate,
back in a minute.

[harry]

ooh, runs outside to find the number on my plate,
back in a minute.

ok, back,
mine is a '71 2a,
and the no. is body no 14841, serial no. 8814841.


so is this the 14 thousand odd vehicle they built, I don't think so.


so how do the numbers work?