Model Number Examples
Model Numbers and Date Codes changed to denote decades of production. Serial numbers did not always exist until the 1991.
| FORM |
TIME SPAN |
MEANING |
| Y-DDBBxVVR |
1971 - 1980 |
- Y = Last digit of year
- DD = Deck size in inches
- BB = Body style
- x = Separator, if present
- VV = Vendor designation, if present
- R = Revision, capital letter if present
|
| Y-DDBBBxVVR |
1981 - 1990 |
- Y = Last digit of year
- DD = Deck size in inches
- BBB = Body style
- x = Separator, if present
- VV = Vendor designation, if present
- R = Revision, capital letter if present
|
| DDBBBxVVR |
1991 - 2000 |
- DD = Deck size in inches
- BBB = Body style
- x = Separator, if present
- VV = Vendor designation, if present
- R = Revision, capital letter if present
- Y = Last digit of year = first digit of Date Code
|
| DDBBBBxVVR |
2001 - Present |
- DD = Deck size in inches or cm
- BBBB = Body style
- x = Separator, if present
- VV = Vendor designation, if present
- R = Revision, capital letter if present
- Y = Last digit of year = first digit of Date Code
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