Body Tag Info - 1949/1950 Frazer Standard

[Jeri Conklin]

I know this was posted once before but of course I need the info and can't find it. Going to the Roamin' Angels Classic Car show with my Frazer and am writing my information sheet. On my body tag, bottom row, half way in I have an "A" with a "6" under it, next to that is SCHED with "157" above it and TEM NO with a "339" above it. I think it was told to me that it all meant that my car was produced June 1949 (don't know what the "157" means) and it was the 339th car off the assembly line.

Please can someone fill in the blanks (what does the 157 mean) and is June correct?

Thank you, thank you!

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

AG6 refers to Accessory Group #6, an equipment package that went on all 1949 Frazers.  The break-out is listed found on the KFOCI HANDBOOK Version 4.0 CD.  SCHED refers to the day of the model year that the body started down the fabrication line (pieces welded to make the shell).  SCHED 1 is August 28 1948.  Start from there and go forward...do not count Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays in calender year 1948 and do back out the last half of December (line down for inventory and Christmas).  Also, do not count Saturday, Sunday or holiday dates going into calendar 1949 and drop an additional 5 days in February for inventory adjustment. 

The ITEM number of 339 reflects the position the car had on the building schedule (SCHED).  The number suggests production of the car started in the afternoon.   

ITEM AND SCHED NUMBERS DO NOT INDICATE PRODUCTION DATE; some finished bodies with tags on them already sat in the Body Bank for weeks if not months and already had SCHED and ITEM information on their tags.

The more we dig, the more new info we find.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

A follow up to the previous posting

1.  All 1949-1950 Frazers were produced at Willow Run.

2.  All door post serial numbers in 1949 started with "1001" for the different model series; in the case of the Frazer it would be F495-001001.

3.  Here is a month-by-month break out that you can use for check dating:

August 1948     5      September 1948     4774          October 1948     768          November 1948     3982          December 1948    2426

January 1949    1931   February 1949     780             March 1949     621           April 1949      140        May 1949     74     

June 1949     492      July 1949      231          August 1949     26          September 1949     2      October 1949     0     November 1949 0

December 1949     0      January 1950     2     February 1950     0      March 1950   0

Example - if your serial number on the door post tag is F495-012345, it would be the 11,345th Frazer off the production (we started at 1001).  Adding numbers (5+4774+768+3982+2426) gives a total over 11,345.  The car was built some time during December 1948.

[Jeri Conklin]

Great, thank you so much! She was born in March 1949 if I added correctly. Retagged door post tag is F-505-015807.  So does that work out as March 1949 give or take?

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

I was off by a line looking at the numbers because the page for the fall of 1948 was skewed.  Numbers actually look like this:

July 1948     5         August 1948     0          September 1948    768          October 1948     3691         November 1948    3932

December 1948     2426.     The 4,774 cars in my original numbers were in fact 1948 model year cars that were built out.

1949 and 1950 calendar year numbers are correct. 

October figure is based on Production as of November 30, 1948 minus production for November itself and Production as of October 31, 1948. 

This would push your car out to your original estimate of June 1949 based on the correction.

Sorry about that

[Jeri Conklin]

Thanks again. For some reason I thought it was june. Good to know. Appreciate your help.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

Thank you for keeping me on my toes.