No published sn data
They show date, time, location of manufacture, what shift produced them. Just a way to keep track of the product. Most things have similar markings in some form.
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The maritime location is in Canada. This location is just above the New England portion of the United States of America.
Peninsular location?
The location of the Colosseum is 41.890169, 12.492269.
Date of manufacture and location
what is the letter preceding the number 26868?
There is no GPS location finder that you can buy, but every GPS will be able to tell you where your location is. Also there are applications that you can download for your GPS that can find locations, and this is usually provided on your GPS manufacture's website,
http://www.re-cycle.com/History/Schwinn/SwnB_Serial.aspx#location
Transportation of the product is very important, also availability of supplies to manufacture with
1940 vehicles did not have a VIN. They did however have a build plate attached to the vehicle somewhere. The location varies with manufacture.
Made in 1878 located at Colt Mfg Co. in Hartford,CT
Hanes have its manufactures world wide I think. You can search it in China, India for its apparel cloth market location reports to master it.
Go to the Remington Society of America and click the Manufactured link, it has the location and barrel codes for month/year of manufacture.
The label in the driver side door jamb will lust the month and year in one location and the month,date,hour, mdh, in another.
Look for a manufacture that supplies a mechanical gauge and check directions for location it depends what the size fittings they use.
Check this page on the Remington Society of America for the barrel code location and lookup: http://remingtonsociety.com/rsa/questions/barrelcodes