Re: Body Dash Numbers

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/10/11 17:34:26

Thanks for the data guys. HH56, I only have 2 1947 seniors in the database and the other has a Briggs # just a single number higher than yours, yet the BDN is 16,000 lower! I've thus far have attributed it to the chaos of restarting production after the war, and of course it's possible that some of the bodies might well be left over from 1946, and remotely possible from 1942. When you get into the 48-50 run, it's a bit unusual to find a Briggs # that matches the VN sequence number, but they rarely differ by more than 20 or so which no doubt is related to how the bodies were shipped in small batches to the assembly line and how they were stored and retrieved for use. But the 1947 and I assume the 1946 numbers are really as random as could be.

Cli55er, please take another VERY close look at that first letter, you BDN puts you square in the last third of 1956 production.