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LewPalmer

USA
3244 Posts
Posted - 04/03/2013 :  16:35:45  Show Profile
Pure speculation on my part, but suppose the 251 number story was the other way around or purely coincidental. Suppose the company didn't want to start numbering chassis at 1 (After all, who would want to buy car number 1 of a new model?) So perhaps they arbitrarily decided to start numbering after say 250. After the move to Abingdon, I find it unlikely that anyone would thing of asking BT to give them a number that matched the first chassis number of the cars.

Lew Palmer
PA1169, PB0560
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Gordon

United Kingdom
692 Posts
Posted - 04/03/2013 :  17:33:33  Show Profile
Slightly off topic but did all Abingdon produced models start at 251?

Gordon
PB 0331, MG4473
Derby
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LewPalmer

USA
3244 Posts
Posted - 04/03/2013 :  17:44:20  Show Profile
Yes, until the TF which started at 501 and the MGA which started at 10101.


Lew Palmer
PA1169, PB0560
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Gordon

United Kingdom
692 Posts
Posted - 04/03/2013 :  17:58:49  Show Profile
Thanks Lew - I wasn't sure.

Gordon
PB 0331, MG4473
Derby
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sam christie

United Kingdom
3104 Posts
Posted - 04/03/2013 :  18:59:00  Show Profile
The Abingdon 251 'phone number would have been allocated by the GPO (General Post Office) . BT was created about 1980. The telephone number looks like coincidence but a 1929/1930 'phone book for Abingdon might provide a clue.

Sam
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sam christie

United Kingdom
3104 Posts
Posted - 05/03/2013 :  09:23:34  Show Profile
Gordon while the statement "all Abingdon produced models start at 251" is true (up to the TF) an ambiguity might arise for the superficial reader.

M-type production at Abingdon actually began at chassis (circa) 748 but production M-types before this were built at Oxford beginning at 251.

Any more news of 266?

Sam
Edited by - sam christie on 05/03/2013 09:25:38
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