baronsouthside
Old School Hero
Re:
Thanks for everyone's input helping me try to date the bike.
Lets review the facts.
1. I have a blue bike.
2. It has a serial number H130920
:facepalm:
So if Ive collated all the info correctly and if Easter of 1985 was April 7th that'll mean Marlboro were at Holdsworth's Oakfield Road works from approx March '85 (when theoretically the 6 digit SNs end?) to the end of '85 and during that nine month period, production of Holdsworths continued but with different serial numbers but we don't really know what these serial numbers are like.
And we think my bike was made at the Oakfield Road site in this nine month period and has one of these serial numbers that we dont know much about?
The Oakfield Road factory closes and the 1986 Marlboro Holdworth models with their new specs and colour schemes started being produced at the Alma works in the West Midlands? (The 1986 catalogue gives Alma as the address. The 84 cat' gives Oakfield as the address.)
Now ive learnt how to resize pics here is my bikes BB again with enhanced Marlboro SN and a known 6 digit SN triath-elan's BB thats probably on the database for comparison. I have to say my stamping isn't nearly as neat as the 6 digit version. Now I'm doubting again. If you're the stamper and are used to taking pride in a neat 6 digit row why alter how you stamp?. Surely the stamping forman wouldn't allow it either. At the end of the day its only one more character. Neatly done it would fit no problem. Arghh... :shock:
Thanks for everyone's input helping me try to date the bike.
Lets review the facts.
1. I have a blue bike.
2. It has a serial number H130920
:facepalm:
So if Ive collated all the info correctly and if Easter of 1985 was April 7th that'll mean Marlboro were at Holdsworth's Oakfield Road works from approx March '85 (when theoretically the 6 digit SNs end?) to the end of '85 and during that nine month period, production of Holdsworths continued but with different serial numbers but we don't really know what these serial numbers are like.
And we think my bike was made at the Oakfield Road site in this nine month period and has one of these serial numbers that we dont know much about?
The Oakfield Road factory closes and the 1986 Marlboro Holdworth models with their new specs and colour schemes started being produced at the Alma works in the West Midlands? (The 1986 catalogue gives Alma as the address. The 84 cat' gives Oakfield as the address.)
Now ive learnt how to resize pics here is my bikes BB again with enhanced Marlboro SN and a known 6 digit SN triath-elan's BB thats probably on the database for comparison. I have to say my stamping isn't nearly as neat as the 6 digit version. Now I'm doubting again. If you're the stamper and are used to taking pride in a neat 6 digit row why alter how you stamp?. Surely the stamping forman wouldn't allow it either. At the end of the day its only one more character. Neatly done it would fit no problem. Arghh... :shock: