looking for an original "R" model Commando

elefantrider said:
For all the pay-to-join "official" clubs and "genuine" vendors that exist, I wish someone would look through the records to try to determine how many of each Commando model were made in each year.
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The records are incomplete and the records that do exist vary in the details they have. The model being missing is common, as it was on the record for my bike, so this is never going to happen.
 
Aren't they pretty much the same bike, just went to a different shelf for tanks, seats, side panels and bars (mostly)?
 
Recordkeeping is part of any good industrial standard.

I can get a very detailed build sheet on my American 60's collector car, and they still know how many of each sub-model were built.

I guess I don't see how a factory can order enough parts, and build bikes without written work instructions on how to build them.
 
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Well Norton went bust, so records do go missing in administration, they have no value when the company is broken up and sold machine by machine. They had enough documentation to make a very roughly 80.000 but they do seem to have been lacking in the end records. Their annual inspection by the UK registration people seems to be easier going or how could they get away with a red identification plate with no direct stamp on the frame for so long. When the car factory I worked at in the early 980's had their annual audit it was a full month preparation and a further month sorting out any issues they found. I remember a duplicate VIN was issued once and the body was physically taken off the overhead conveyor by 8 people 20 ft up in the air standing on wire mesh so the sequence was corrected such was the problem if it was ever found.
 
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