After my friend died in 1983, his wife gave me these data plates. He had hauled scrap to and from salvage yards and collected these plates off the salvage parts. Note how the aluminum starts to appear by mid war.
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After my friend died in 1983, his wife gave me these data plates. He had hauled scrap to and from salvage yards and collected these plates off the salvage parts. Note how the aluminum starts to appear by mid war.
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Nice grouping. Would love to have the tripods from which they came...
Seven different makers in those twelve plates. Any idea how many different makers there were?
I do not know how many different makers were involved, I have more data plates but these were damaged but still interesting. I only found one 1941 plate for the M2 tripod (M1919A4) which is in the photo.
Here's the data plate form the CAF BT-13, but they won't let me take it home because the BT is still using it.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...IM005343-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...npatrol2-1.jpg
My friend Billy Pyle flew a BT-13 in Texas too
The information I have lists the following;Quote:
Originally Posted by JimF4M1s
M-2 Mfgs. were.......
Rock Island Arsenal
Lamson Corp.
Evans Products
Lovell Mfg.
Appliance Mfg.
Bingham Stamping
Acklin Stamping
Houde Engineering
M-3 Tripods were......
Heintz Mfg
Roraczynsk Mfg.
Evans Products.
Central Steel & Tube
Colson Company
Rock Island Arsenal
Looks like he got most of the mfg. plates. I have a WWII Evans that I had to get a repro plate made as the data plates were removed after WWII.
Nice collection.
Looks like only two made both. Rock Island Arsenal & Evans Products.
Thanks for the info.
I was able to recover this from a derelict. I have always wondered about the "C over V" inspection stamp. The only connection that came to mind is Consolidated Vultee but only Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed made B47s. I thought CV could have been a subcontractor but then the S/N has a CV prefix as well. I like the DSA acceptance stamp as well.
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Hi Kirk,
That's really interesting. I was thinking a sub contracted part too, but don't understand the CV in the SN unless they serialized each sub part.
I did a search for the drawing number and found an old thread where someone found the same drawing number on a data plate. (Fourth post)
Any B-47 people here? - AR15.Com Archive
That was me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Harlan
Small World - You've been looking for a while!
Too funny! I didn't even notice the user name back in an archived thread from 2002. :banghead:
I'll keep looking to see if I can find anything (useful)
This isn't a data plate but I thought it might be interesting. It's a dash plate from a '46 Jeep my dad and I were restoring when he passed away. This is all I have left of our Jeep.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...epMedium-1.jpg