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Found 2 production tags in the interior of my car does anyone have a idea what they were for?? One is for operation 73 and the other for operation 74 they are pink in color?? Just curious what the operations were for?? Such as seat installation,electrical check or ??.... Just kinda fun to find out. Thanks

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That is SUPER-SUPER COOL. The job number is for a 1928 Five-passenger coach 8170.

This would be a Fisher body and the 44399 would be the Fisher body number. This number should match the data plate on the cowl under the hood and near the middle.

Need some help here. That number should also be burned into the body wood somewhere. When you have a fixed front seat mounted on a riser, it would be burned into the front riser board on the backside. Anyone know where it is when we don't have a permanent front driver's seat?

Anyway, you have some super rare paperwork from a Chevrolet car. Protect it. And thanks for sharing it with us.

Glad you liked it! Sorry the pics turned out so large. They do match the cowl tag!! Just thought I would add the service station sticker with the 3 digit phone number. This is from the second owners service just before my dad and mom purchased it. It was sticking in the door jam, gotta put it back on. Any one know what operation 73 and 74 were ?? Probably could have been anything. Is there any way to find out where it was built and when it rolled out? Thanks again....

Good Lord ! Make a COPY of that "sticker" for the door jam and keep the original in your safe ! Wouldn't be great to find out what "operation" 73 & 4 were ? Thanks for sharing ! Kevin

"Googled" the address on that "sticker" out of curiosity , it's now a dry cleaners ( since 1994 ) guess Goodrich out grew that location many moons ago...
Oh my ! You live in Tiffin ? Been by to see Kimmel Cleaners ?

Copy all the information on the cowl tag. Get all the numbers available on the engine block and the head. Post this information and we will provide at least some of the information you seek.

My 28 Coach has those tags also. They are Fisher Body scheduling tags. They were placed on parts that were to meet up with the body as it went down the line. IE so the right color door trim would be at the trim station when a coach or coupe or 4 door showed up to get the interior installed. Same would apply for seats or sheet metal or what ever. Job number would be assigned and then mated to the first part of the body put together. The line workers would check the numbers of the parts off the tags to be sure what was going on the car was right for that car. Those tags would mean nothing on the final assembly line as that part was Chevy, not Fisher.

Yes, I lived in Tiffin years ago and remember the garage. The car was originally from there new. Retired lady school teacher sold it to second owner in 1952 who now lives in Calif. My parents bought it in 53.
Cowl tag..Job#8171 Body F 44399 Engine block 4950300 and some numbers under that are 348532 under that bowtie 8 under that H318. Thats all the numbers I could find. Thanks

The Job number is 8170 (none of the job numbers end in 1)

F 44399 is the Fisher body number. The F is obviously Flint, but I have not seen that on a body tag.

H318 is Aug 13 1928 which is the casting date for the block.

You are still looking for a data # plate. It is 3 1/2 X ~1 3/4 and will be on the end of the seat riser or on the floor under the right heal of the passenger nailed to the floor. This will be something like this: a bowtie, a line that says NATIONAL, a line punched in 21ABXXXXX. That tag will tell us where the vehicle was assembled and a sequence number.

Hi Bob,


I don't understand this statement Bob. Could you explain?

Yeah,sorry typo on the job number it is 8170.
Body tag does have a F on it.
?? would H318 be Aug 13 or 31,1928?
Car # 1AB108749 Thanks for all the info!!

I have been looking at numbers too much today. Yep, just like you I did a typo also. Let's go with Aug 31, 1928.

Now 1AB108749 is: 1 = Flint AB = 1928 108749 is a sequence number that shows an assembly of Early September 1928.

We will get this right yet.

Thanks Ray, That is cool info to have. Do you know if the sequence number started at 1 or how did they do it??

Hi Ray, What I meant about it is a Fisher number is just that. Fisher was a separate company with in GM. When the body was finnished on the fisher line, it was taken to the Chevrolet final assembly. Some Fisher plants were right next to the final assembly plants and may have never seen the light of day between plants(In the same building basicly). Some like Oldsmobile in Lansing were several blocks away (Fisher in Lansing was in the old Durant car plant and Olds plant was blocks away, the bodies were acually trucked over (on a private road called Oldsmobile ave)to Final assembly and it was that way till Olds in Lansing closed). The workers in the body assembly would have had Fisher on their paychecks and were considered Fisher Employees, no matter who the car bodies were built for at that plant. Those trim tags are just what Fisher used "In house" and most tags would have never been seen by a worker on Final assembly since they would have been inside door panels, on doors, seats and other body components. Now trucks like what we saw built in Flint are different since the body or cab is acually considered to be Chevrolet built and Fisher was not directly involved although the prosses may have been developed at Fisher and Fisher Engineers would have been involved in some capacity. It is kind of confusing, but This was done this way since the mid twentys all the way to the present. up grades to the system were made over the years eventually leading up to computer generated Build Sheets and now Bar code stickers are used. Remeber those IBM Punch cards you would find under carpet and different areas like crammed in seat springs? Same thing as those little paper tags fom the 20s. Hope this helps.

TIFFIN28: The sequence numbers started with 1001 for the first vehicle in that year, at that plant.

Thanks to all...This is a great site with a good bunch of helpful people. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!