Hi Guys
What I can see there are a lot of opinions regarding the early 109 production and with the somewhat chaotic picture published by various authors, this is not surprising.
My OWN
Augsburg production list (the 76 BFW built) is as follows
WNr 998-999
WNr 1010-1064
WNr 1701-1719
This is based on Prien and Radinger/Schick's books, WITH the assumption that the prototypes V-9, V-10a and V-11 to V-14 were taken from the B-1 production line AND that WNr 998-999 are also B-1.
IF this is NOT agreeable, I can accept that we add 6 more WNr to the 1010-1064 batch, ie we extend it to WNr 1070
According to Prien Fieseler started with WNr 3000 and went to 3089
Radinger/Schick says 3001- with no ending but presumably means 3090
Prien follows up HIS range with D-1 WNr 3090-3170 and E-1 3171 etc, so at HE seems to be pretty sure about the Fieseler production batches
Erla is the headache and I am NOT sticking my head out on that one.
I also have a couple of questions
**Seaplane.
You say you have 22 A(-0). My own list only has only 20, which I believe is correct unless you want WNr 998-999 to be A's. This however is refuted by Radinger/Schick
**Olefebvre
You say there were only 9 B-1 in the batch 1701-1719. Source please!
**Remi
You say WNr 1719 was a D-model. Prien SPECIFICALLY mentions WNr 1719 as the final B model built by BFW and has a photo to go along his text. YOUR source please
You also say that the second BFW built batch started with 1676. No other source states this. Do you have losses relating to ALL WNr 1676-1700?
As an aside. In the late 1930's RLM must have lost control over the WNr since there now appear 109's with the SAME WNr but from different manufacturers. With no serialnumber system, such as Britain and France used, it SEEMS to me a temporary solution was to HAND OUT the WNr blocks to manufacturers as well who no longer could use their own WNr ranges. Can someone verify this procedure??
Cheers
Stig