Please help to settle an argument

[vdub wannabe]

Evenin all.

Please help me and my mate settle an argument once and for all. Its one of those arguments where you have few beers and go on with yourself :lol: .

Bear with me......

Would the first three digits of a 1968 Microbus read 228?

So the full chassis/code number would be: 228 xxx xxx

To go through my reasoning:

2 = Vehicle, Type 2
2 = Body Style, which in the is case is a Microbus
8 = Year of manufacture i.e 1968.

I know boring conversation but there's a beer riding on this one.......I won't tell you what he thinks it is, just in case he's reading this. Smugness is'nt a good look 8)

I know there'll be a few people on here who will know the answer straight away ( or have a library of numbers ).

Thanks in advance, I await the oppurtunity to be proved right or (probably) wrong!

 

[Loxy]

You are correct, shall I bring my own straw to share that beer :lol:

Chassis number went to 10 digits for 70-79
where the xxx2 xxx xxx denoted a 70s chassis number - the 2 could change to a 3 if they factory ran out of chassis numbers
so a 78 would be 2282 xxx xxx to differentiate it from a 68

 

[canterburyfour]

2XX is a bus, 1XX is a beetle,3XX is a type 3 and so on. The 2nd and third numbers combined are the model of that VW. So a 211 would be a standard bus and so on.

 

[Loxy]

the 2 could change to a 3 if they factory ran out of chassis numbers

Which it never did for the type 2 (annual production figures were between 150000 & 280000) only the beetle managed more than 1 million in a year

 

[vdub wannabe]

You are correct, shall I bring my own straw to share that beer

You can have the whole pint for that answer

Smug mode

 

[vdub wannabe]

do emergency vehicles have a different numbers, i.e ambulances, fire buses etc? :?: :?:

 

[Loxy]

do emergency vehicles have a different numbers, i.e ambulances, fire buses etc? :?: :?:

Factory Ambulances do (gen factory ones at least) they are 27 models.
with 271 denoting a LHD sliding door right & 274 denoting RHD, sliding door left.
Again other converters used standard models to make ambulances.

Fire truck is a 21F
Fire Kombi is a standard type 22
Ladder truck was type 261
Others were just standrad model types with M-codes for extras/deletions

 

[vdub wannabe]

Thanks for the info....

Fire truck is a 21F
Fire Kombi is a standard type 22

Whats the difference between a fire truck and a fire Kombi?

 

[Loxy]

Thanks for the info....

Fire truck is a 21F
Fire Kombi is a standard type 22

Whats the difference between a fire truck and a fire Kombi?

Fire truck has all the hoses & water pump etc, whereas the kombi is just seating for fire fighters I believe.