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As far as l know from the key card records of series one 4x2 land rovers supplied to the army there  where two separate contracts the one for  17 CL  48  to 20 CL 22 the series two   CL ones under contract 6/V/27756 and a larger number series one for both the CL and the station wagon version under contract 6/V/26222  these were registered in the  O1 CE 89 to 08 CE 63

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According to Geoff Fletcher and James Taylor's "British Military Land Rovers", the Series 1 4x2s were Mk5s.  A single Mk3, 39BP30 was trialled and, thereafter, the Ministry of Supply contract 6/Veh/26222 was placed in Nov 1957 for 655 Mk5 4x2s. All were RHD with canvas tilts.  This was followed, in December 1957 for an order for 20 station wagon variants, making 675 in all.  They were built between Jan and March 1958 with chassis numbers in the range 1118-00962 and 1118 - 01911.  The ERMs were: 01CE89 - 08CE43 for the soft tops and 08CE44 to 08CE63 for the station wagons.  The CL ERMs were Series 2 Land Rovers.

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16 hours ago, wally dugan said:

As far as l know from the key card records of series one 4x2 land rovers supplied to the army there  where two separate contracts the one for  17 CL  48  to 20 CL 22 the series two   CL ones under contract 6/V/27756 and a larger number series one for both the CL and the station wagon version under contract 6/V/26222  these were registered in the  O1 CE 89 to 08 CE 63

For a learner like me, how can you tell from t registration numbers how many, if at all?

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11 hours ago, Surveyor said:

For a learner like me, how can you tell from t registration numbers how many, if at all?

Where the whole contract is in one run, as above, then it is simple: ignore the letters in the middle then subtract the lower number from the higher and add one - so you get 0844-0189=655+1 =656 then 0863-0844=19+1=20.  So, in this case, there is an error of one!  So there were either 676 or one in the sequence wasn't delivered.  You have to add one because, unlike straightforward subtraction both ends are counted - eg if there is a sequence of, say, four 01AB23, 01AB24, 01AB25 and 01AB26 subtracting 23 from 26 would give you just three, but there are four vehicles!  I hope that's clear!

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Many thanks, I noticed a lot on here registration numbers being used to give an indication of how many made, in contract, as a supplementary question how to you go about finding which contract a vehicle was in?

 

I seem to recall the letters gave an indication which area it was based in originally

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The contract number will be on the vehicle's B Card and also on the vehicle data plate.  Otherwise, the information is out there is specialist books - for Land Rovers, for example, there is the book by Geoff Fletcher and James Taylor, for Lightweights, the one by Mark Cook.  As for the two letters in the registration number, mostly they indicate the financial  year in which the contract was placed (the MoD would order, say, 200 Bedford lorries and, at the same time allocate a set of 200 registrations to the contract.  These would be passed to the manufacturer who would then fit number plates prior to delivery.)  But there are many exceptions - the XA, XB etc" series did indicate location - as they were allocated to vehicles based in Berlin and paid for by the "Berlin budget" with money from the Senaet.  But there are other examples.  A pretty good list is available in Volume 1 of "Warpaint Colours and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903 - 2003" by Dick Taylor.  He served many years in RTR from trooper to regimental quartermaster and is also a trained historian, so he writes with authority and experience.

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21 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

The contract number will be on the vehicle's B Card and also on the vehicle data plate.  Otherwise, the information is out there is specialist books - for Land Rovers, for example, there is the book by Geoff Fletcher and James Taylor, for Lightweights, the one by Mark Cook.  As for the two letters in the registration number, mostly they indicate the financial  year in which the contract was placed (the MoD would order, say, 200 Bedford lorries and, at the same time allocate a set of 200 registrations to the contract.  These would be passed to the manufacturer who would then fit number plates prior to delivery.)  But there are many exceptions - the XA, XB etc" series did indicate location - as they were allocated to vehicles based in Berlin and paid for by the "Berlin budget" with money from the Senaet.  But there are other examples.  A pretty good list is available in Volume 1 of "Warpaint Colours and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903 - 2003" by Dick Taylor.  He served many years in RTR from trooper to regimental quartermaster and is also a trained historian, so he writes with authority and experience.

Found the contract number where you said, FOI tomorrow for the B card

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29 minutes ago, Surveyor said:

FOI was unsuccessful any one any suggestion where I should try next?

The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, although lradvice@jaguarlandrover.com may have found the information for you from there already:-

https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/archive

The RLC archive:-

http://www.rlcarchive.org/VehicleSrch

 

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RLC on line form does not recognise the chassis of Registration, email to be sent

British Motor Museum only can give date sent to MoD, they suggest Deep Cut Barracks.

Still to email Land Rover.

Work to pay bills getting in way

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