[Bob Carriere]

The issue of when they were built..... and when they were assembled in England. .....can be months apart.... using what parts were available when half the fleet got sunk on the way over... and what was on the front of the shelf on that particular rainy Wednesday morning... so many possibities/variations... not to mention the rebuild/repair centres who used what they had available or cannibalized.... look at all the left over Dirk as been collecting......

We can be a little more certain when we find them in Canada particularly the late contract such as the C60 for the Aussie contract built in late Summer 1944 and they have a civvy dash and a round gauge dash and built a week apart..... or was it a repair center modification.....??????? David mentioned how the serial numbers of engines were not sequential...... some will even support a great conspiracy to mix numbers to confuse the Germans...
I support the reality of lazyness...... when they needed an engine from stock they took the first one near the front of the pile.... even if it only came in that morning.... the ones at the back where eventually reached when production slowed down.... I really don't think that the FIFO and LILO inventory concept was very well known in those desperate years.....

BooBee

Nothing is certain.... except that they are CMP for sure !!!!!!

Bob C.