Posted by ScottyHOMEy on December 13, 2008 at 20:18:49 from (71.241.208.102):
In Reply to: serial # plate missing posted by CP Dutchman on December 13, 2008 at 19:39:29:
I'm a little touchier than some about fabricating serial number plates, as some folks do some unscrupulous stuff with them. I'll hold my peace for those who have an original plate, but want to make up a new one for appearance's sake, as long as they keep the original plate. In your case, you apparently never had a plate and want one where one should be. And I'm even okay with that, but please don't make up a number.
There was apparently quite a bit of disparity between chassis and engine numbers on the SuperHs, as their serial numbers never got all the way up to 30000. A look at the Wisconsin archives, if I'm reading them right, shows your motor to have been made in the last month of production, October '54. The same tables for chassis numbers show production for October started with chassis #28694. Using some different records I would guess, Guy Fay's Data Book shows the last SuperH as #29285. The only thing that can be certain about your chassis number is that it started with "SH" followed by a grouping of five digits starting with a "2". We can't tell if the next digit should be an 8 or a 9. If you were to make up the reproduction plate to read FH 2XXXX, with Xs for the unknown digits, you will have a plate where one should be, the Xs will acknowledge that the original number is unknown and that the plate is a replacement.
I don't know if the plates in '54 still had the max no-load RPMs stamped into them or not.
The casting codes and features on the tractor pretty firmly establish it as a '54 SuperH, and as long as you use Xs for the unknown digits, you are not representing the tractor to be anything that it isn't.
Link below is to chassis numbers in the archives. There's a link on the left side of that page to '54 motor numbers.
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