Re: IML: Car Production Broadcast Sheets

[aeyn <mr85000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,
    Thank You very much for that info.  I have heard of people
finding the sheets in the headliner and under the carpet, also. 
I had a 69, but I now have a 1975 4-dr HT LeBaron in Moondust
Metallic.

Æyn

--- Bill Watson <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Car production broadcast sheets date back to the early 1960's
> (at least) in
> the U.S. and 1966 or 1967 in Canada.
> 
> They were used to identify the parts going onto a car and thus
> were attached
> to items brought in from other suppliers (seats, carpets, etc.)
> or from
> another line in the plant (instruemt panels).   Sheets wwe also
> attached to
> the body itself as the car rolled down the line, usually to the
> front and
> rear fenders, so the assembly line workers could tell which
> axle,
> suspension, brake, wheels, etc. to install.   The U.S. 1961
> Plymouth-Valiant
> brochure shows a freshly -painted red Valiant proceeding from
> the paint area
> to the next point on the assmbly line with a brodcast sheet in
> the right
> headlamp cavity.
> 
> The sheets were also printed at differennt days and times,
> depending upon
> when they were needed.   Seats, which were built by outisde
> supppliers, had
> sheets printed probably the earliest while sheets placed on the
> fenders were
> done last as they would not be needed until the day of
> assembly.   The
> sheets attached to the seats are usually tbe most common as
> they were placed
> in the seat springs and are the hardest to fall off.   Of
> course sheets
> placed on the outside of the car as the it progressed down the
> line were
> tossed in the garbage when done.  Chrysler began including the
> day and time
> of printing on the sheet sometime in the mid-1970's.
> 
> The area labelled "Build Codes" listed either the last three
> digits of the
> part number or a bin number along with the colour code (where
> needed).
> This made it easy for the assembly line worker to grab the
> correct part for
> the car - torsion bars, steering column and wheel, brake/clutch
> pedals,
> radiator, wheels, wheel covers/hub caps, etc..
> 
> What years of Imperials do you have?  There are a number of
> sites but their
> codes are usually a mish mosh of years as they group 1962-68
> codes together
> which is incorrect.   The codes were the same for 1960-61,
> 1962-64, 1965,
> and 1966-68.    Code 502, for example, was "Deluxe wheel
> covers" in 1960-61,
> "225-cid slant six engine" in 1962-64, "Partial horn ring" in
> 1965 and
> "Floor mats - heany duty - Police" in 1966-68.
> 
> >From 1969 to 1983 Chrysler used an A-N-N layout instead of the
> three numbers
> (N-N-N) and grouped codes by the first letter (A -
> Accesories/Packages; B-
> Brakes, C - Seats and carpets, D - Transmissions, etc.)   Code
> descriptions
> were not altered during that time, although not all codes were
> used for
> every year.   The codes were changed to an A-A-A- layout in
> 1984.
> 
> 
> Bill
> Vancouver, BC
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "aeyn" <mr85000@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 4:56 AM
> Subject: IML: Car Production Broadcast Sheets
> 
> 
> > Hello All,
> >      This is just an idea.  For those of us who have done
> work on
> > our cars, how many have been able to find the Car Production
> > Broascast sheet for our cars?  And where did they find it?  I
> > have baan able to find the Car Production Broadcast sheets in
> > both of my Imperials.  I believe that both of them were
> retained
> > by the bottom seat springs under the back seat.  Is there a
> > listing anywhere that will tell me what the codes meant for
> the
> > years I have?  Also, on which years were the sheets done and
> was
> > there anything on the older cars like this. I know that they
> have
> > been used from 1969 to 1993.  For the most part, they were
> hidden
> > and unless you know where and what to look for, most people
> would
> > not know that it even exists.
> >
> > Æyn & Patrick
> >
> > (By the way, "Æyn" is the old english spelling of "Ian" and
> > prodnounced the same.)
> >
> 
> 
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