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Hi eveyone I have been doing some homework on my panel and I have found out it was built in july 1949 at the Janesville Wi. plant my serial # is 21gpg12158 does anyone know where I could look to see how many of these were built that year and what number mine might be? Thanks for the help Jeff

Jeff,

1950 production numbers by truck model are available but I have not seem numbers for 1949.

21GPG12158

21 = Janesville, WI assembly planr
G = 1949
P = 3100 series truck (1/2 ton)
B = February assembly month
12158 = the production number 11158th 1/2 ton truck off the assembly line that year (I think that the count started at 1,000, so 1000 is subtracted from the number on the plate = 11158 - someone will correct me, if I am wrong)

Tim

The following are crude estimates based on mismatched sources of production numbers:
423,000 total trucks sold in 1950 - 6.55% (~28,000) were 1/2 ton 3105 Light Duty Panel
337,000 total trucks sold in 1949 - est. 6.55% (~22,000) were model 3105