Re: Body Dash Numbers

Posted by HH56 On 2008/10/11 17:57:49

16,000 is a lot of bodies to have stored somewhere, and tin can scrap drives makes me think the govt wouldn't allow many through the war. Looking at the way the 47 body is constructed, it appears the firewall is a mildly bent but otherwise flat piece of metal that is spot welded to the actual body. With the ongoing conversion back to car production, I could easily see stamping several thousand firewalls, stack them up in several piles, change the press to make something else and then start welding things up. If they used the last in, first out storing method, then depending on which pile was delivered to the welding dept, numbers would be all over the place and could account for several thousand off. When things were welded together, that's when the Briggs number assigned. A few hundred stored bodies, I could see.