#1946 WILLYS JEEP SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#
#1946 WILLYS JEEP SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#

The article goes on to cite identical production data as to what is on the History page here including the incorrect annual production quantities. Norton Young was an employee of Willys/Kaiser at the time and did the compilations so that executives at Kaiser would have yearly production information. This production information was transcribed into electronic form by Charlie Weaver from a hand written a compilation Norton Young did between 19. Howe with the first paragraph saying, You won't find more accurate Willys-Overland production information anywhere else. One other tidbit is that in 2006 I copied a page from which is no longer there, but I saved the URL and have the whole thing in a Word document. Other than that, I'm inclined to believe that there was no overlap and that 2A production stopped in 1948. the other thing is that there was a second production facility in California that might have allowed easier overlapped production of 2As and 3As in 1949. I thought those and the parts shortages occurred earlier. One is the possibility of work stoppages in late 1947 and late 1948. Two things that I can think of might impact my thoughts. It's odd to think that production would stop after 20 more days of production when there were 61 more calendar days in the year. I have to believe that 219589 was already produced on or about. The other fact that I think bears on 1948 production is the Sales Bulletins we have dated October 30, 1948, identifying #219589 as the first 1949 model year vehicle. Sean, when you go back to your service bulletins and look at the kinds of information I have referenced, doesn't it make you think that the History page data and the later Master Parts List data are citing model year data? I find the data for 1948 quite compelling in that respect. I have seen you state the belief that there were no 2As produced in 1949. I find this data much more consistent with the service bulletin information as well as with what we know about the average production rate over the life of the 2A. Also, I added the computed 'Quantity' column (also off by one for 1947). It does have an obvious error in the ending SN for 1947 that should be one less based on all the other information we have. Here is the production data from the first edition of the Willys Master Parts List, 1950: At ~204 per day, you could easily produce #224764 before the end of the calendar year. This would be from bulletin 48-60 showing # 215648 was produced on. The same thing happens if you examine the last serial number/date combination in 1948.

#1946 WILLYS JEEP SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#

Using a number of 210 vehicles a day (the estimated rate of production between September and October of 1947 and consistent with the early 1948 production rate BEFORE production tapered off at the end of 1948, you get a last serial number of 161044 that makes much more sense. If you extrapolate production for the remaining 70 days in 1947 at 195 per day, you go well beyond 148458, supposedly the SN of the last 2A produced that year. The last serial number/ production date combination listed for 1947 is #146344 on. )Įven using lower than overall average daily production figures, look at the conclusions one can draw from your bulletins. Perhaps one of the numbers were copied incorrectly or entered that way originally. This data suggests that only 256 vehicles were produced from mid February to the 3rd of March when we know that is a bit over 1 day's typical production.

#1946 WILLYS JEEP SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#

( - As an aside, I think the production figures for 1947 were higher than I computed because I think the serial numbers or dates for the the first two entries for 1947 don't fit the other information very well. I came up with 195 per day in 19 and 204 per day in 1948. I made a few computations of the average number of vehicles produced each year based on the first and last dates for changes having a serial number listed in your list of changes by serial number and production date. Sean, I think you are overlooking the information that can be derived from your own service bulletins. The usual 'yearly' numbers correlate well to numbers w/dates in the service bulletins, with the exception of 48/49 transition. I believe these are 'calendar' year production numbers, not 'Model' year sales numbers. The 'history' figures were culled from yearly figures such as posted in the manuals.

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