ARN and other comments
Hi Robert,
From the plate images, the chassis number is 3795 and the date of manufacture/completion was August 1973 (8-73) under contract V119238.
I thought there was a post by Tony Smith providing details of the ARN as 25-241 (I recd an email notification) but it seems to have been deleted. I checked the REMLR site listing and that chassis number is indeed listed as 25-241, with delivery in 1974.
Of course, that ARN number is post-1972 and therefore too late to be listed in AWM126, and a quick check of chassis numbers of F1 trucks listed in AWM126 confirms that, the highest F1 chassis being about 3672.
Yours appears to be one of the last batch of F1s which consisted of 267 vehicles with ARNs from 25056 to 25322, with delivery to 1COD Bandiana commencing on 24 May 1972, and concluding sometime in 1974. The contract number for the 267 vehicles was C551002, rather than the original contract number for F1 trucks of V119238 as shown on the plate (the V system had been superseded by that time by the 'C' and 'M' prefixed demands M for maintenance ie purchase of spare parts etc, and C for capital equipment).
Mike
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