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Location: Mitchell Nebraska | NOT SURE WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN BUT I DO KNOW THAT ON BOTH MY CARS THE NUMBERS ON THE GLOVE BOX MATCH THE NUMBERS WRITTEN IN MARKER ON THE FIREWALL.THE ON E SAYS LAFEMME N2089 AND 2089 IS ON THE FIREWALL ABOVE THE INFO TAG.THE OTHER SAYS CORONET N1799 AND N1799 IS IN MARKER ABOVE THE INFO TAG AS WELL.I SUPPOSE IT WAS TO MAKE SURE THE DASH WAS PAIRED WITH THE CORRWECT CAR BUT DONT KNOW WHAT THE N2089 OR N1799 ACTUALLY STAND FOR. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | If I remember correctly, there's a video from the factory on Youtube and I remember that they talked about this for to match the dash to the correct car.
I just found it - please check and confirm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0ykX9lPU
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| Gasmanscotty - 2015-03-12 10:03 AM
NOT SURE WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN BUT I DO KNOW THAT ON BOTH MY CARS THE NUMBERS ON THE GLOVE BOX MATCH THE NUMBERS WRITTEN IN MARKER ON THE FIREWALL.THE ON E SAYS LAFEMME N2089 AND 2089 IS ON THE FIREWALL ABOVE THE INFO TAG.THE OTHER SAYS CORONET N1799 AND N1799 IS IN MARKER ABOVE THE INFO TAG AS WELL.I SUPPOSE IT WAS TO MAKE SURE THE DASH WAS PAIRED WITH THE CORRWECT CAR BUT DONT KNOW WHAT THE N2089 OR N1799 ACTUALLY STAND FOR.
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that those numbers indicate two things. The "N" indicates either the north line or night shift at Hamtramck. There were two assembly lines side by side and this might be a form of internal identification. The four digit number may also be one of two things. It may be the last four digits of the order number, or the last four digits of the sequence portion of the serial number. If you order the IBM cards for these cars, you may find those numbers there.
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Location: bishop, ca | Thanks for that, Kevin; IIRC (it's late-nite, now...) I've seen an "S" or a "N" that are marked onto
various Broadcast Sheets...tomorrow (OK; later today) will go thru a bunch of them and verify that there
is/are only one 'S' or 'N' appearing on any of them.
What's really weird, is that the handwriting that appears on my many B-Sheets, is all
identical; how could one person have hand-signed/initialed all of those documents???
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| d500neil - 2015-03-19 3:51 AM
Thanks for that, Kevin; IIRC (it's late-nite, now...) I've seen an "S" or a "N" that are marked onto
various Broadcast Sheets...tomorrow (OK; later today) will go thru a bunch of them and verify that there
is/are only one 'S' or 'N' appearing on any of them.
What's really weird, is that the handwriting that appears on my many B-Sheets, is all
identical; how could one person have hand-signed/initialed all of those documents???
I'd forgotten about the details of that movie, but the reference in it to building cars by "job number" has jogged my memory. The job number will be something absolutely unique to the building assembly plant and would have no relation to any documented number. Aside from finding it hand written on various bits and pieces, I doubt it will be found anywhere else. I'm not sure what triggered the numbers restarting from 1, do I recall you mentioning that you have job numbers that were as high as the low four digits? It would be interesting to see if each line had its own job numbering system or if one line was all odd numbers and the other all even numbers. Your records should give us a clue on that.
As to the penmanship being the same or similar, when I was a kid, and I recall my Mother talking about this as well, honest to goodness penmanship was taught in public/grade school. So it could very well be that the guys (presumably) who were doing all of this writing, had had some instruction and that was reflected in what you've been seeing. Remember also that the guy doing all of this writing (which was never more than a few words) worked at the speed of the line - which I believe was in the neighbourhood of 450 per line, so even if the guy did the writing for both lines, he was only writing out 900 notes in a day which isn't a lot.
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