Southern VP Date Code?

[Skulldigger]

Does the little sticker on the bottom of a SVP 1166 have anything to do with a date?

 

[Mars Light]

I guess it is a production marking.

 

[Lt.214]

Possibly a final quality control number to signify it passed all of the QC standards.

 

[radiostrobe]

I’m late replying to this, but I’m 99% sure the last 2 numbers are the year of manufacture. I don’t know if the first 2 numbers are the week of that year or what exactly. I would imagine it was for warranty purposes or something similar. I had several over the years when they were in production and the 90 or whatever the last 2 numbers were was either the year I purchased it or maybe say it said 90 and I bought it early in 91, it would still be fairly recent. I have some older models from the early 80s that have 8 whatever at the end.

Side note- when I was younger, I’d pull that tag off because I didn't like the look of it even though I couldn’t see it when the light was on the dash. I’m sure others took theirs off, too.

 

[Fireball]

My SVP1166
Code 2393 box+ light

 

[stansdds]

I have a NOS Signal Stat 381, sticker on the bottom reads 0389 and a Trail-Brite 7-07, sticker reads 4280. Perhaps it is a date code on the beacons made in Hong Kong, possibly week of the year and last two digits of the year?

 

[Skulldigger]

possibly week of the year and last two digits of the year?

Seems like a reasonable possibility to me.

 

[Fireball]

Exactly !

 

[Skulldigger]

That makes this one November 12-18, 1990.

 

[Lt.214]

I was nosing through the collection, this is a signal stat 381. No sticker on the bottom but it ink stamped 1378( I think it's an 8). Anyway it's the same but different.

 

[stansdds]

I was nosing through the collection, this is a signal stat 381. No sticker on the bottom but it ink stamped 1378( I think it's an 8). Anyway it's the same but different.

Sure looks like "1378" to me.