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Submitted by david_green3 on Tuesday, 19 March, 2019 - 07:54
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I need to make up a new vin plate for my 74 850 commando has anyone got a photo of there vin plate fort this year as they seem to be different also size of stamps

Submitted by ian_cordes on Tuesday, 19 March, 2019 - 10:33

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Norvil will do you one. They need the old one, which they will return to you, cut in half. What has happened to yours?

Submitted by john_holmes on Wednesday, 20 March, 2019 - 10:49

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The 74 plate was the same as the one used in 72 and probably a bit earlier, but the stamps did change and the method of stating the month and year which went from eg 1972 APR to 04    74.

Submitted by david_comeau on Wednesday, 20 March, 2019 - 15:20

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My 201xxx 72 combat and very early 73 850 3001xx Do not have the same VIN plate.

Lot of stolen bikes and fraudulent remarking out there.

I'd trust more an old beat up tag, than a new one anyday...

Submitted by david_green3 on Wednesday, 20 March, 2019 - 19:45

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Does no one have a photo of their vin plate.Im not interested in frame numbers just the right one for 74 ive seen 3 styles for the commando,also the size of stamps.

Submitted by james_fanning on Thursday, 21 March, 2019 - 03:55

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If it's any help here's the VIN plate on my Sept '73 Mk1A 850. You will note only the manufacture date is stamped - 9/73 , they didn't bother with stamping the other details. This was a time when Norton was going through major financial and managerial problems with factory despatch records and processes poorly maintained.

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Submitted by david_comeau on Thursday, 21 March, 2019 - 16:33

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factory management problem? " they didn't bother with stamping the other details"... Not buying it

some of my 22 nortons below

lots of my vin tags with a 3 on them:

2016XX
2022XX
204X3X
2063XX
220X3X
3009XX
3028XX
3163XX
3165XX
3168XX

None of my "3"'s look like the sample above  PA09536.jpg

 

 

Submitted by david_green3 on Thursday, 28 March, 2019 - 20:19

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Hi David,

Thanks for that info im trying to find out month of manufacture my engine number is 31654X

wondering as you have one 3165XX what that month is.

Thanks Dave Green

Submitted by michael_sullivan on Thursday, 21 March, 2019 - 17:00

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I believe that the tag in the photo above was one that the US required in relation to the new anti-polution standards.  They just wanted to know when the bike was made in relation to previously submitted data that was presented to the US Regulators.

Mike

Submitted by james_fanning on Friday, 22 March, 2019 - 05:05

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Yes , the VIN plate design on my bike (Norton Villiers type) was in use at this manufacture period to cover US export requirements although bike was sold in UK by a Somerset dealer to a local customer from whom I bought it 42 years ago in 1977.

Norton's VIN plate design changed again subsequently when NVT (Norton Villiers Triumph) company was established end of 1973 and despite going into receivership in July 1975 carried on Commando production to the end of the Mk 3 finally being liquidated in 1978.  

Submitted by peter_denham on Friday, 22 March, 2019 - 09:07

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Mine has month year and engine number all numerical on VIN plate

Submitted by david_green3 on Sunday, 24 March, 2019 - 19:37

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Thanks can you let me have a photo of the vin plate so I get the right one

Thanks Dave

Submitted by david_green3 on Saturday, 30 March, 2019 - 19:10

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Hi Pete,my engine number is 31654X trying to find out month so I can stamp vin plate I noticed yours is 8/74 what is your engine number just the first 4 figures.

Thanks Dave

Submitted by peter_denham on Monday, 1 April, 2019 - 18:23

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3200XX

Submitted by david_green3 on Thursday, 28 March, 2019 - 19:48

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Thanks Pete,just what I wanted ordering mine of rgm shows me all the info I needed

Cheers Dave

Submitted by james_fanning on Tuesday, 2 April, 2019 - 04:00

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To help you narrow it down to a likely month of manufacture my Sept 73 Mk 1A 850 has engine number 3064xx. If you average the difference between 9 / 73 and 8 / 74 engine numbers you get an approx factory output of 1200 machines per month which would put your bike at around May '74 manufacture. Assumes steady monthly factory output rate which it likely wasn't but gives you a reasonable month estimate for your bike. 

 



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