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Crayon marks were either from an inspector, or it's a sequence number, so the engine finds it's home in the proper chassis.

Many folks know about the build sheets being found under rear seats. Many survived because the assembler who installed the seat couldn't be bothered to remove it (which was part of his job).

There were numerous build sheets for each car.

Cushion room built seats.....they stuff the build sheet in the springs......seat finds it's way to the assembly line and gets into proper chassis  because the build sheet usually didn't fall off.

Taping a build sheet to an engine wasn't as safe, since it could fly off (or be lost several ways while in transit to the line) so with a grease pencil (sometimes chalk) the sequence number wouldn't get mixed up as often, and shut the line down. They hate it when the line stops for any reason.


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