Dating an MG crawler

[expeatfarmer]

No engine number and no sign of there ever having been one.

[vhgmcbuddy]

I have a plate on the oil filler with what I would think was an engine number although it is a ransomes number not an engine manufacturers number. Borrowed a friends flexible camera thing yesterday to look inside the box still can’t see a number so I’m going to have to pull the lid of.

[expeatfarmer]

The very early T engines were manufactured by Sturmey Archer , the later TB was a redesigned version made in house by Ransomes. Some photographs would be good.

[vhgmcbuddy]

Hello everyone sorry to intrupt i have been having a play with my mg5 after winter and have found the serial nu of 3512 wonder if anyone could give me some in on it?

[dave]

Your MG5 dates from 1948. Any chance of an engine no?
Dave.

[vhgmcbuddy]

Il will have a look where abouts will it be? There is a number on the o/s of engine block. 1964. But will have another look if you can point me in the rigth place. Is there anyway of finding any history on it?

[vhgmcbuddy]

Been a long time getting back to this thread but in reply to dating my crawler , I have removed the top of the gearbox and no number. So back to square one !

[expeatfarmer]

If you look around the outer edges of the crown wheels there are a series of numbers one of which will be the date of manufacture.

[vhgmcbuddy]

Expeatfarmer I have found a date on the crown wheel , it’s marked 36 but I need to look closer. Do you now if it gives a precise date , do you have your number as a reference.

[vhgmcbuddy]

A little tip I was told many years ago by a retired Ransomes factory manager is pre-war MG’s have a brass ID plate but during / after WW2 they will be steel. This was because Ransomes were not permitted to use brass as it was required for ammunition manufacture.

[expeatfarmer]

Which model of crawler are you trying to date? On my MG2 number 137 the diff stampings show the date in DD/MM/yy format.

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