I have just had the crosshead chemically stripped of paint and rust prior to refurbishment. Now its back to bare steel I noticed some stamping on the top bracket where the Kingpin locates. the nearside is stamped V4/1/68. I assumed this to be a date stamp as the car was built late 1968 but not sure what the V indicates. I then noticed that the offside bracket is also stamped this time with V4/1/67.
It seems odd that one is 68 and one 67 unless whoever stamped the brackets picked up the wrong stamp, a 7 instead of an 8. or could it be that the brackets are stamped individually and then just picked out of a box and brazed to the crosshead.
Anyone else seen these stamps and are they a manufacturing date?
