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The final assembly of Tigers took place at one of Jensen's factories. They maintained a ledger of Tigers, listing both VIN and JAL numbers. The list also includes the date the Tiger was completed. One of the first attempts to publish this information is the inclusion of this information in the Book of Norman, by Norm Miller. It is out of print, but various Tiger owners have a copy. Another source is the Rootes Archive Centre Trust. (See the forum below with that name for more information.) Please note that one can not tell which of different cars with the same date rolled off the assembly line first. There is no first or last. Also, the cars are not necessarily in order by VIN or by JAL number.
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Welcome. Do you know the VIN and able to share it here? Others will have documentation (BoN) that will shed some light on your Tiger. Also, join the FB Tiger Groups too.
Yes, the Vin is B9472283. Thanks for the help!
Ray
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Somebody will be along and decipher that VIN. Many are at SUNI this week so not in front of their device. My Google search shows that you just recently purchased via BaT out of Denver. Looks like it was TACed so there'll be records. Looking at the comments on BaT, I recognize some of the handles and they seemed to think that you did well.
Stand by for the flow of knowledge from the others.
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Google search of your VIN
Found this nugget on the TEAE site as posted by Gary and Judy Moore on Sept 1 2008.
Engine original to car…B9472283 Engine s/n 3049-S27KA Model. C4PZ-6001-cf option 90-2632
From thesunbeamclub.com
Posted by Gary on April 2006
The old Rootes/Peugot factory goes and here the Norton motorcycle produced
by Kenny Dreer has shut down...No money....Norton dies again....Gary
B9472283
On Oct 7, 2012, at 21:04, arado7 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
Found this nugget on the TEAE site as posted by Gary and Judy Moore on Sept 1 2008.
Engine original to car…B9472283 Engine s/n 3049-S27KA Model. C4PZ-6001-cf option 90-2632
From thesunbeamclub.com
Posted by Gary on April 2006
The old Rootes/Peugot factory goes and here the Norton motorcycle produced
by Kenny Dreer has shut down...No money....Norton dies again....Gary
B9472283
On Oct 7, 2012, at 21:04, arado7 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
need.
lubricants
Gary
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If I may add some info from the other side of the 'pond'. Rootes' weekly "Off Track" records show B9472283 LRX entered the assembly line during the week ending 29th January 1965, along with 116 others. It is not known why the Jensen Date is two weeks later. 2285 (2/15/65) was also delayed in being trucked over to Ryton.
The jensen date according to Bon is 2/11/65
Correct... the Jensen date 2/15/65 refers to B9472285 LRX
The “Rootes Weekly Off-Track reports” conveyed the last VIN# of the week for all car models off every assembly line at Rootes’ plants, including the ‘outlier’ – Jensen’s Tiger production. Executive standing instructions were “To provide Production Control with a teleprint every Monday with the last chassis number of every model off track the previous Friday”. Here's an example from 12th February 1965
While the Rootes Weekly Off-track reports are interesting, they are only within a week of production. Also, they do not list every individual car, only the highest chassis number of all car produced that week. But the cars did not come off the assembly line in order of chassis numbers. For example, in the above sheet the chassis number for the Tiger (Alpine'260') is listed as B.9472609. It is possible that B.9472605 was finished the following week. (This is a hypothetical example, as I do not know when B.9472605 rolled off the assembly line.)
The Jensen date for #2609 was 10/2/65 which is within the week ending Friday 12/2/65. If, as Warren states, cars did not come off the line in VIN order, and I suspect Production Control was interested in numbers produced, why was that info not provided? I wonder how this info was used by Rootes.