confused!

mrdraddy · Post by **mrdraddy** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:08 am

Just bought a featherweight off rick(thanks mate she lovely) bought have become totally confused with this engine number F744D2 ? anyone tell me the age?

mrdraddy · Post by **mrdraddy** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:11 am

just had another look at johns tables of numbers,is it april 1962?

Hugz · Post by **Hugz** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:53 am

April 1972

mrdraddy · Post by **mrdraddy** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:28 pm

oh! ok thanks

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:53 pm

D2 is april 1962. April 1972 would be DD2.

A 72 model will have the Wipac sealed ignition system and the flywheel would have been painted a bronze colour. A 62 model will have the Villiers ignition system and a silver flywheel if it has not been changed.

Hugz · Post by **Hugz** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:29 am

To quote SOS web page:

'After 1963 there was a letter and number at the end of the sequence to denote month and year A = January 3 = 1963. In 1973 the codes continued with double letters, i.e. AA 3= January 1973.'

ie '72 would be a single letter. '62 would not have a letter.

Can we have a ruling on this please!!

Hugo.

Post by **charlesp** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:01 am

1972. As Hugz points out, the letter codes only started in 1963. It's an easy trap to fall into.

The month letter is of course for April. Since this is immediately after Way-Hope's death, with Pam Bates at the helm (who saw no reason to change anything at all) it's probable that the actual date of manufacture was a little before that. I have heard of stocks of motors being produced in wintertime when demand was slack, stamped up for the following Spring, and released as required in the succeeding months; this meant that customers were not going to think they'd bought 'old stock'.