Fwd: RE: Fwd: Re: [CBQ] O-5-A Extra Order Builder's Plate

[Norm Metcalf <normmetcalf@yahoo.com>]

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Subject:	RE: Fwd: Re: [CBQ] O-5-A Extra Order Builder's Plate
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:23:30 -0700 (MST)
From:	rhlehmuth@reagan.com
To:	Norm Metcalf <normmetcalf@yahoo.com>

The Q must've been happy with quality and price of the out-sourced boiler as they went back two years later in 1937 to Baldwin for the series of O-5-A boilers.

Norm,

 

Extra Order plates reflect a "sales order number" of a MAJOR product that BLW would build.  Typically, they were boilers - however, I have seen a couple applications where a new frame was built and, in one instance, an entire valve

assembly.

 

The numbers were normally a 4 digit number so as not to conflict with construction numbers - hence the dash (-) followed by the year.

 

There were a few XO (extra order) plates that were applied post WW2 when the 5 sided plate came into being - and were shown as 6-digit numbers with a dash (-) with the year after that.

 

There is no known data in the DeGolyer records as far as a list of of "XO" numbers.

 

Bob

 

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