2815 Recent purcahse of a mark ii have a few questions

[Pat Marshall]

Check out the history for 2289 owned by Don Mitchell pres of Mitchell Bentley. There's a story about the company and the mark II

[Barry Wolk]

Does anyone here remember the story about 3 bodies being left over at M-B?

[Barry Wolk]

Someone just posted this on the H.A.M.B. in response to my request for body info. These were wood body bucks.

Looks like they miniaturized Roger next to his wood model.

[Shawn Newcomb]

Only from a mention in one of your old posts on the subject.

[Barry Wolk]

Got a link?

[Shawn Newcomb]

This was from the thread I mentioned being from @ 3years ago. -Shawn

I can't remember the name of the original body maker. The letters I read showed deep concern as to whether the original firm would be able to keep up with production demands. They went to Mitchell because they had larger capacity. However, I also read that they were very unhappy with the fit and finish of the Mitchell bodies, especially the amount of lead and how well it was finished. Many bodies had to be redone at Continental's shops before they were painted. I also read that there were several bodies in white left over at Mitchell's facility when the program ended. I saw a letter from Mitchell asking about the disposition of those bodies, but I never saw a response..I suppose a prototype fender could have gotten into the parts stream at some point.
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Barry Wolk
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[Barry Wolk]

Well, that's a good clue. We'll just look for correspondence from Mitchell. That will be legible as some of the documents were probably 4th page carbons. Remember carbon paper?

[Pat Marshall]

Ah,yes!...and mimeograph machines and white-out and Dicta-Phones...

[Shawn Newcomb]

I believe this is the other angle to the previous photo

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...rkinthebag.jpg

[Barry Wolk]

This brings up another question. Is your data base based on the Invoices or the Production Orders? If you've not been to the research center you've not see the host of information hand-written on the P.O.s.

It appears that the Continental P.O.s were multi-part with carbon copies. The collection has the tissue copies. I think there was a stiffer paper or cardboard copy that followed the car down the line. Later Lincolns got them stuffed under seats and under dashboards after the car was assembled. Has anyone ever found one of these?

The P.O.s were pre-numbered, embossed into the page. I wonder if, when a car was cancelled, which I also read that many were, what happened to that number? Was it skipped, or were there P.O.s with hand-written numbers? I could see how record-keeping could have been problematic. I think that many answers await you, Grasshopper.