Re: Pre War Service Index Groupings

Posted by BH On 2011/5/23 9:52:04

Owen -

Thanks for the feedback and additional input.

WRT coverage back to the 1st Series, initially, I had only been looking back to 1930 and merely included the 1930-32 Eights per the parts book.

Meanwhile, Kev had proposed that anything prior to 1928 be treated as a single group - perhaps because the Service Letters series had only been launched in 1927. Also, while single-topic Technical Letters predate and overlap publication of that newsletter, we don't have a significant collection of those to examine.

However, when I found that Langworth connected the Light Eight to the 6th-8th Series Eights (1929-31), I decided to extended that one grouping back to 1924, mirroring his Buyer's Guide coverage.

Of course, nothing is etched in stone at this point . Heck, I'm still waffling about whether to have both 1935-1937 Juniors (120->115C) and another for 1938-1942 Juniors (16th->20th) or just one 1935-1942 Juniors (120/115C->20th). With no Service Letters for 1935 (yet), we'll just have to cross that bridge when we get to it.

So, I can certainly fold the "corresponding Sixes" in, though they date back a few years earlier, and call it "1920-1931 Six/Eight (1st->8th) and 1932 Light Eight (900)". Though that title is a bit long, we can revisit the wording later

In time, perhaps we can make room for additional groupings for earlier years as the picture becomes more clear. However, that's contingent upon receipt of material for that period - including Technical Latters.