Originally Posted by
gridplan
I'm most interested in finding out exactly what the letter codes mean on the cantle plate of older
Brooks saddles (if that's even knowable at this point). I've always gone by the information found here:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/component_dates.htm
Unfortunately, that indicates that the meaning of the letter codes is lost to the ages.
Is that true? Regardless, it would be nice to have that kind of information about date
codes on the Brooks site so collectors like me can easily find it.
The code stamped on the underside of the saddle is the date of production. Since a few decades you find a 3 digit sequence: "number", "letter", "number". For example 9C2:
-"9" and "2" stand for 1992
-"C" is the month and as it is the 3rd letter of the alphabet it means March
Don't ask me how my English colleagues and forefathers came up with this. I guess it was a way to kind of hide the date of production.
Andrea
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