It's not a MLW shop number. They started at '1' for each vehicle type and carried on till the end of production. In general the Army census numbers were the shop number plus the first census number of that order but sometimes they got out of sequence but for Rams at least that was listed in the parts list.
The documents show both tanks as #275, with -1 and -2 suffixes. I have not seen that before and have no idea what it means. Possibly 275 was a project number and these were two prototypes ?
David
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