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Description of Literature Avaliable for the Aprilia
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Order Code |
Price ŁUK |
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Aprilia Series 1 Instructions & Spare Parts Catalogue (French) 1937 |
097-027 |
14.00 |
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Aprilia Series 1 Parts Catalogue (Italian) 1949 |
097-000 |
25.00 |
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Aprilia Series 2 Istruzione per l'uso e la manutenzione (1951 8th Ed. In Italian. For 12-volt cars with appendix for 6-volt cars) |
099-024 |
10.00 |
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Aprilia Series 2 Instruction for the use & maintenance (1948 in English) |
099-002/2 |
10.00 |
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Aprilia Series 2 Parts Catalogue - Catalogo Parti di Ricambio(6/7th Ed. 1948/51 In Italian) |
099-001/6 |
25.00 |
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Lancia Aprilia Production Information Information was first published by the American Lancia Club (1955), and then by Lancia Motor Club (Roland Grazebrook, 1970), on the serial numbers of Aprilias. These numbers are those referred to by Lancia as "the reference number for ordering spare parts". Further detailed data has since been published in Weernink's editions of 'La Lancia' (1979, 1991) and in an Aprilia special magazine produced by the Italian Lancia Club in 1986. The locations of the 'reference' and 'chassis' numbers are shown in the pictures below, taken from the relevant parts catalogues. The reference no. is used in the parts catalogues to denote changes of parts, whereas the chassis number identifies the car for registration and official purposes. APRILIA BERLINA
Reference number on front bonnet right side with no prefix tipo number
APRILIA AUTOTELAIO - PLATFORM CHASSIS TYPE Chassis number on bulkhead plate & stamped on bulkhead with prefix tipo number
Reference number stamped to the left of the battery box on left side of the rear engine bay with no prefix tipo number
Other numbers are found on Aprilias and some other Lancia models. In particular there is what might be termed an 'assembly' number which clearly enabled the factory to track all the parts tailor-made for an individual vehicle. On my own 2nd series Berlina chassis number 438-28790, the 'reference' number is 19191. However there is another blue 'Lancia' plate attached to the left side of the bulkhead which says "Lancia C. SA. Tipo 438 20413". This number is stamped all over the place: on the aluminium window surrounds, written in chalk on the back of the interior door trims, etc. I've never seen a listing of these numbers The chassis numbers were not allocated to reference numbers in a tidy sequence, and it seems possible that some bodies never made it into finished cars, and also that some chassis numbers were never allocated to finished vehicles. The chassis number range, as published by Weernink, I think indicates the minimum and maximum chassis numbers allocated and may show the total finished cars. The 'corresponding chassis no.' in the final column below, as published by the Italian Lancia Club in 1986, I think, indicates the chassis numbers allocated to the first and last reference numbers for each year. The earliest chassis number for a 2nd series berlina is 438-20001, but the earliest reference number is 10355 and this was allocated chassis number 438-20077. The full records are available in Italy.
Examples of modifications recorded in the Parts Catalogues
Engine number and type is stamped on to the rear right-hand engine support. 1st series engines are 1352cc & designated Tipo 97. The stamped number appears as "Tipo 97. N.9900". 2nd series engines are 1486cc & designated Tipo 99. |
Aprilia Special
Reference Pictures from Daniel Poitier in Viva Lancia! July 2001, p.5:
The following picture was taken on 30th August 1981 at a lunch at Colla della Madelena, near Brescia on the last day of the 1981 Lancia Centenary event. Nigel Trow and myself were shown the car by the young (? 30-ish) French owner who confirmed that the car was an Aprilia special based, I think on an Aprilia saloon, and obviously constructed in the early 1950s. The body was supported on a space-frame attached to the Aprilia platform, with all Aprilia mechanicals.
Photograph by Paul Mayo 1981
The car's registration number was 8288 FD 94, which I believe is a Paris number.
Paul Mayo 16th July 2001
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