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This is the build sheet from one of my convertibles. Just thought it might be interesting to see. Note that it was built as a -9 car.

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Sorry for the poor photo I thought it would show up better.

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It blows up to be quite legible with just a double click (at least in Firefox).

Strange that it has carriage tractor holes on each side. I'm not an expert on documentation generation but i don't remeber seeing any form of printed material with tractor holes like that prior to the early or mid 60's.

It's a Teletype print-out. Teletype print-out pre-dates computer print-out by decades.

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"Packard's production line was one of the most modern material-handling conveyor operations in the world. New from the ground up since the war, it represented an investment of $25 million. The line was controlled by teletype and carefully synchronized, with parts flowing to cars from both sides on three levels of factory operation."

-Packard a History of the Motor Car and Company, Kimes, Second Printing, page 534

I found the one for my '47 neatly tucked between the fuel filler tube and the whistle tube.

Without this slip it's impossible to tell the original VN of a factory-renumbered car, that is one of the -9- or -5- cars (a 22nd series 1949, or a 23rd series 1950), though the Briggs # can often give a substantial clue of a renumbered car.