Unusual ID numbers

[air-chief]

Hi Guys

I was up at a mates farm today and had a look at the old FE Ute he has. I noticed on a ID plate that beside(to the right) of the stamped trim and paint numbers were a couple of letters stamped. Half way between them the letters "A S" are stamped.
I removed the ID tag so i could take photos of it to post up.

 Any ideas???


Cheers a-c

[mcl1959]

All Sydney FE utes had AS stamped after the trim number - All I can presume is that the Sydney plant used a different trim manufacturer than all the other plants and therefore they were identified by the letter stamp after the numbers
Interestingly Sydney special sedans have AO, standard sedans have AP & business sedans have AQ
All sydney vans and wagons were made in Adelaide so they dont have the code.
But AO, AP, AQ, AR, AS is alphabetical - and there is no AR code that I have ever seen.  Possibly this was reserved for Sydney production of wagons or vans which never happened.

Intrigueing isn't it?  Ken

[air-chief]

Hi Ken

Thanks for the reply, very interesting. Was this letter coding only used on the FE's or did it carry onto FC's as well?
 
Regards Mark.

[mcl1959]

FE's only

Ken