Determining year of manufacture w/o data plate

bfr · Last edited by bfr on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:39 pm; edited 1 time in total

I need to do some paper work on my recently acquired m170.
from the patent plate I have ...
serial #11425

in the lower right in very small print it says...

PHOTO REPRO REP DIV ALB GA

From what I have been able to find so far that would make this a 1954.
Does anyone have any thoughts?

wesk · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

I do not know of any way to determine date of delivery or date of manufacture from the patent plate.

I believe you posted a similar question on the G503 and I answered with several close serial numbers that placed yoursin the 1954 period for an approximate DOD.
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Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100

Mjeeps photo album: http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?set_albumName=Wes-Knettle&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

bfr · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:13 pm Post subject:

not me on the 503, but I would appreciate a link. Cool

here are all the M170 serial numbers I have found along with their respective dates...
10637 4/1954
10691 4/1954
11425 unknown/Mine
11560 6/1954
11584 6/1954
11665 6/1954
11685 6/1954
11869 4/1955
12158 6/1955

flatfenderdodge · Member Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 7

My 1962 Serial no. is 7248 13695 and hood number USMC 363038

Dave

wesk · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:

Based on your list of serials you jeep would be a May or early Jun 54 unit. You won't get an answer any closer than that untill some more known M170 serials with known DOD's show up on the list. Total M170 production for 1954 was 1722. That works out to an average of 144 per month during 1954 but that doesn't wash when you look at your list of serials which shows about 688 units built from Jan thru Apr 54. So obviously production varied somewhat from month to month.
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Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100

Mjeeps photo album: http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?set_albumName=Wes-Knettle&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

bfr · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

got to spend a little bit of time w/ the m170 today...
Thought I would keep adding what I find in the way of history to this thread.

found....
...Yellow lettering on the hood (just bits and pieces, some had weathered away)

... 606279 W 12 D AR CU CR cast into the block on the lower right side.

...MD67555 stamped on the top front of the block. at the end of the stamping there is an oval stamped as well (looks like a zero turned on its side)
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Joel
1954 m170
1966 Kaiser Jeep M185A3/756w/w
1968 Stevens Manufacturing Co M105

WillysMotors · Contributor Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 111

In this particular case since your M170 is only 3 units off from mine I can tell you it was produced in May 1954.

bfr · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

Thanks, do you happen to know how your's was outfitted, which service had it, etc?
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Joel
1954 m170
1966 Kaiser Jeep M185A3/756w/w
1968 Stevens Manufacturing Co M105

wesk · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject:

Is yours MD-A11422 or MD-A11428? Can post some photos of your data plates? Have you completed one of our group's survey forms for your M170?
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Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100

Mjeeps photo album: http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?set_albumName=Wes-Knettle&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php


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