The lowest beavertailed Powertone I've personally seen was around #3000, but we know the Powertones lost their B&B's and Tall Boy rims sometime in 1963, so the first beavertailed Powertone should be in the 2000's. But as all the experts repeatedly state, the randomness with which the factory workers applied these labels prohibits us from using Rogers labels as any hard method for dating. I've always thought how amused those workers would have been if they knew that 50 years later we would be discussing their mundane assembly tasks and labeling methods. They would have thought we were crazy.

Mike

Mike,

Your statements demonstrate exactly why the "dating" thing is important. And, sometimes one year makes a huge difference. All the companies had "transition" years. Good job.