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Engine dating - bobthompson - 12-03-2019
Can anybody tell me where to find info on engine dating please?
I am trying to date 2 mag engines with numbers M44168 and M38027
Thanks v much!
RE: Engine dating - Martin Prior - 12-03-2019
Engine numbers were within a few hundred of chassis numbers (usually, but not always, slightly ahead). Look at the chassis register at www.a7ca.org and you'll get a pretty close idea of the date of yours.
RE: Engine dating - Colin Morgan - 12-03-2019
Looking on the Registers is a good way of getting a date. In addition, there are lists of modifications in Wyatt's Austin Seven Motor for the Million book, and the Austin Seven Companion. From these lists, M44168 would have been built in about September 1927, M38027 in about May 1927.
Colin
RE: Engine dating - bobthompson - 13-03-2019
Thanks very much chaps - I am now wiser and educated - well on engine numbers anyways!