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Oct 01, 2017 11:02 pm
Oct 01, 2017 11:02 pm
Subject: Re: LG45 / LG6 strange engine number
Not sure that the "float" engine theory works. My LG6 has engine number LG6/515/S4. I've done a lot of research correlating LG6 engine numbers, to the extent that I can be pretty certain that it (chassis 12360) would originally have been fitted with engine number 499 or 500. The engine is stamped 12360...but you can see that the block has been hammered to obliterate a previous chassis number...probably 12527.
So...I think Lagonda would have stamped the eventual chassis number on this block. The "typeface" of both sets of numbers is identical, so I can be reasonably certain that Lagonda changed the chassis number.
Perhaps this was an engine held in reserve, but sent outside the works for local fitting.
I have at home in France my records for LG6 engine numbers, so on return will check to see how 384 sits with S4 and LG6 engines.
Colin...the number here is Lagonda's own engine number; Meadows had their own entirely different range of engine numbers, and I believe that earlier model Lagondas were indeed stamped (in different locations) with both Lagonda and Meadows engine numbers. Certainly by the time the LG6 appeared, this practice had ceased and LG6 engines have no Meadows engine number.
Laurence
Not sure that the "float" engine theory works. My LG6 has engine number LG6/515/S4. I've done a lot of research correlating LG6 engine numbers, to the extent that I can be pretty certain that it (chassis 12360) would originally have been fitted with engine number 499 or 500. The engine is stamped 12360...but you can see that the block has been hammered to obliterate a previous chassis number...probably 12527.
So...I think Lagonda would have stamped the eventual chassis number on this block. The "typeface" of both sets of numbers is identical, so I can be reasonably certain that Lagonda changed the chassis number.
Perhaps this was an engine held in reserve, but sent outside the works for local fitting.
I have at home in France my records for LG6 engine numbers, so on return will check to see how 384 sits with S4 and LG6 engines.
Colin...the number here is Lagonda's own engine number; Meadows had their own entirely different range of engine numbers, and I believe that earlier model Lagondas were indeed stamped (in different locations) with both Lagonda and Meadows engine numbers. Certainly by the time the LG6 appeared, this practice had ceased and LG6 engines have no Meadows engine number.
Laurence