Its interesting to note on those pages of factory dispatch records linked to that the quite low +200,000 serial numbers
were mostly dispatched in Jan 72 or later, bar a few that were in late Dec 71.
And also quite a few gaps in the records - not recorded or not made ??
Be informative to hear from someone that worked there back then how they operated,
vis-a-vis making, numbering and stockpiling (?) bikes before the Jan 72 announcement of the 1972 models.