Re: [CR]Holdsworth age clues?/Mercian

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:50:40 -0800 (PST)
From: "Mark Chandler" <justridingalong@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Holdsworth age clues?/Mercian
To: "Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BDEDA44.45C4232F@memphis.edu>


--- Jim Cole <jcole@memphis.edu> wrote:
> << Is there a date code in the serial number? >>
>
> Dale sez:
>
> >I am interested in this too. It seems that serial number de-coding
> is a
>
> >recurring theme for all marques. Maybe it would be good to have a CR
> >page for each marque that dealt with nothing but serial numbers....
> Schwinn
> >Paramount, Hetchins, Raleigh, and Masis are the only makes
> adequately
> dealt with
> >I know of.
>
> I was told by Mercian that the last two digits of their serial
> numbers
> is the year the frame was built. Don't know what the other numbers
> represent or how long the date code has been in use. So Chuck, does
> this seem to jive with your ultra-cool (!!!) 1950's Mercian?

I thought the first two digits were the year, and the remaining digits indicated the Nth frame built that year. I no longer have my 2000 KOM Touring, so I can't double-check (or see which digits they used for 2000).

--mc

===== Mark Chandler / JustRidingAlong@yahoo.com Superior, Colorado

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