Glyn,
If you review RJ Dial's photo archives (www.vintageairstream.com), it
appears that there is a different numbering sequence for each model. It
is hard to determine if the numbers are sequential from year to year or
not. This method appears to have continued until the serial numbers
were changed in format to include the model (length), trim level and
floorplan in the serial number.
Nice to hear from you again, how have you been, and how are your puppies.
Bill Kerfoot
WBCCI/VAC #5223
1973 Dodge W200 PowerWagon
1977 Lincoln Continental
1954 29' Double door Liner
1979 23' Safari
Orange, CA
> All,
>
> Jon's email below including his unit number brings to mind a
> questionabout how Airstream numbering was done. Jon's 1969
> Globetrotter is #134
> while my 1969 Caravel is #508.
>
> Did each model and length unit have its own set of sequential
> numbers or
> did all of one year's production get lumped together? For that
> matter, did
> the model numbers continue until a major design change through year
> afteryear?
>
> In boat production building circles, Ericson for example, each
> model had
> its own number set that ran through to the next year but if a
> totally new
> design of lets say a 25 foot boat was developed, the numbering
> would start
> the next hundred higher. For example let's say that the last
> number of an
> old design 25 ended as hull #438, well the new design of that same
> lengthwould be hull #501.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glyn