Rick W Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 While scraping some layers of paint of the jeeps bonnet trying to find the number, I had a quick scrape underneath, and found the following WNR 800534 L -anyone any ideas what this relates to? Stencilled in white on the original paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 ....any ideas.... :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 ....any ideas.... :? :dunno: Not at the mo, Rick. Still looking. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 While scraping some layers of paint of the jeeps bonnet trying to find the number, I had a quick scrape underneath, and found the following WNR 800534 L -anyone any ideas what this relates to? Stencilled in white on the original paint. Rick, You will find these numbers on a lot of British vehicles in 1950's era, there has been specualtion that it could be a rebuild serial number, or something to do with the Vehicle Storage Depots. I have seen them on Austin K2 ambulances, Champs, Austin K9, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 Thanks for the ideas. I would be interested to know if anyone who does have one of these numbers painted underneath the bonnet, and they have a service history card, if the numbers tally up to anything on the service card. That would surely give the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Mystery solved (I think!). Further scraping below that number I found B380 stencilled. That tallies up with the overhaul depot number B380 on the chassis plate. So it must be a work reference number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Just a quick photo of the number after the scraping back of the layers of paint. http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o72/rik242_2006/jeeplog007.jpg[/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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