[SCG] Build Tag Mystery

[Kent Sullivan]

FYI--most all of the Canadian cars that I have seen with the seats stripped
down have a small build tag inside, so it appears to have been common
practice in Oshawa.

Here's the one from my car:

http://www.corvairkid.com/610767001602_bt.htm

--Kent
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Hi Bill, 
This is pretty easy to explain. The seat cover assemblies were embossed and
stitched up at Fisher's Grand Rapids plant and sent to each Fisher body assy
plant from there. The seat frames were shipped in from another Fisher plant.
Then the seat assembly, complete with tracks, was built up on a sub-assembly
line at each body plant, close to the end of the assy line. 
The station at that sub-assembly line, like all the other stations on the
line, received a build sheet for each car. It was electronically transmitted
to (and printed at) each station, hence its real name: Broadcast Sheet.   
When that sheet was printed at each station, it essentially ordered a set of
parts to be picked and/or assembled for a particular body. The first
operation on the seat was probably to slip the covers on, and the person
doing that must have slipped his sheet inside.
He may have put the wrong sheet inside, or possibly the wrong seats were
installed in your son's car. I don't recall any difference between Monza
convert and sedan seats in 65 but I may be wrong. If I'm right, and the
seats for the sedan and your son's convert were also the same color, it
wouldn't have mattered. 
I suspect the first scenario was the culprit, though, since the seats should
have been assembled in sequential order.
Dave Newell

-- "Bill Hubbell" <whubbell at cox.net> wrote:
   
I am putting new seat covers on my son's 1965 seats.  As I opened up the
upper part of the Driver's bucket, I was pleased to find a build sheet stuck
inside (Car Seats 016.jpg).  

However, after insecting the sheet (Car Seats 025.jpg), it is obviously NOT
the sheet for his car, which is a convertible, as this sheet is for a
4-door.  

OK, I know that after 40+ years seats may have been changed, although the
build date (03-03-65) is in the same week as my son's car (03A on the Fisher
tag).  That got me to thinking, "Why would the build sheet be stuck inside
the finished seat, anyway?"  You would think that Fisher would have wanted
the build sheet to be available during the body assembly, and yet, once the
seat top is sealed up you can't exactly get to it.  So what exactly was
going on here?  Did Fisher only partially assemble the seat, leaving it open
enough to shove the build sheet in once they were done with it?  Where
exactly on the line were these seats assembled anyway?  Is it possible that
a seat build for a 4-door could have been put in a convertible going down
the line the same day?

I could understand it better if the build sheet were merely stuck on the
bottom of the seat where you could reach up into the springs from below, but
why would they seal it inside of the top part of the seat?

Anybody have any answers?

Bill Hubbell
President, SCG

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