Post by helenwa on Dec 23, 2015 13:51:47 GMT 10
Hi Don,
Somehow I managed to miss your post and have only just seen it! Thank you so much for your valuable knowledge and confirming what I had already suspected, based on what I had previously read about the chassis numbering system. Yes, you have it correct, it is just 825 with no letter suffix. As you say, there would be no easy way of telling the year of manufacture before they introduced the suffix lettering system etc. but 1959 seems likely. Do you know what year Franklin began manufacture? That probably doesn't actually help us anyway if there is no way of differentiating year of manufacture prior to 1960.
We are lucky the van is in very good condition for it's age. It still needs new gas lines installed and the electrics checked, but other than that, it really just needs paint. Getting it licensed also means installing a new stove with flame-stop safety function. We were very disappointed about that, as the original stove was still in working order and looked so good. We are aiming to keep it as original as possible where we can. It has given us a challenge and opened up a whole new and interesting world for us!
Cheers,
Helen
Somehow I managed to miss your post and have only just seen it! Thank you so much for your valuable knowledge and confirming what I had already suspected, based on what I had previously read about the chassis numbering system. Yes, you have it correct, it is just 825 with no letter suffix. As you say, there would be no easy way of telling the year of manufacture before they introduced the suffix lettering system etc. but 1959 seems likely. Do you know what year Franklin began manufacture? That probably doesn't actually help us anyway if there is no way of differentiating year of manufacture prior to 1960.
We are lucky the van is in very good condition for it's age. It still needs new gas lines installed and the electrics checked, but other than that, it really just needs paint. Getting it licensed also means installing a new stove with flame-stop safety function. We were very disappointed about that, as the original stove was still in working order and looked so good. We are aiming to keep it as original as possible where we can. It has given us a challenge and opened up a whole new and interesting world for us!
Cheers,
Helen
