Well, the Broadcast Sheet being attached with two strips of masking
tape, to the back of the glove box, served a specific
essential-purpose: ensuring that that post-painted-and-fully-assembled
dash got installed onto the proper car!!!!
The handwritten notes, on the dash-B.Sheet, were for easy-quick
reference, by the Line Supervisor, to ensure that "this" dash
got mated to its proper intended body-unit, when they finally came
together, on the production line.
The fact that others have found B.Sheets underneath the carpeting, on
the floor pan area, indicates that ANOTHER Line
Supe tosssed it down, after ensuring that the car was painted and
trimmed correctly, right before the interior was installed.
B.Sheets are also seen in vintage photos, taped to the opened hoods;
those B.Sheets probably were disposed of properly
after the car was fully assembled.
Neil Vedder
Ray Jones wrote:
I always had the impression that the workers were responsible for
their own trash. So, when he was thru with the info for his station,
it got stuck in the car. The guy who placed the proper upholstery on
the line or in the car stuck the sheet in the upholstery so at the end
of the shift he didn't have to empty the trash. The Dash guy shoved it
over the Glove box and so on.
After 33 years of ownership, my wife found one in our '65 Chrysler
300 L when she pulled out the rotten carpet. It was in the drivers
foot-well, and of course, badly damaged. I think we have another one
put away, from under the rear seat for that car. It had been in
outside storage for many years and she was cleaning it out/up.
Surprisingly, it has almost zero rust in the floors, frame and trunk,
after sitting 12 years in a Pine forest.
Ray
On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Fury Jim wrote:
out of over 40 57-9 plyms/dodges/and 2 desotos, i havent seen a
broadcast sheet pre-59. i do have 2 of the 3 from one on my 59
plymouths, one was behing the oil-impregnated insulation behind the
pass kick panel, one hog ringed to the underside of the rear seat, the
last was in pieces under the carpet... my 59 fury had only 1 under the
rear carpet.... i found remnants of one shoved above the glove box of
a 59 CRL...
probably no set standard location, just wherever someone felt like
stick 1 or more at the time of assembly.
jim
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