Please help to identify this part

[Rolfeb]

Originally Posted by Snautzer

And you made Broncs day, ruler and all :-]]

[schwarze-man]

Hi Rolf. Thank you very much for that picture! That is a very nice part of the Kurbelgehause to have as a relic. An important thing here is, that piece was part of the side of the Kurbelgehause- the main part of the engine and immensely strong! To be shattered into such a small part likely indicates that the impact was very energetic, at high speed! The cast numbers at the bottom line, ?? 69 41 52 are a casting code. They will indicate which location and sequence number that this component was cast. From the original company files, it would originally have been possible to identify the date etc. This is not the engine Werk Nummer. The batch of castings will have been machined and finished, then taken to the engine assembly plant and only when processed as an engine on build, the Werk Nummer will have been allocated to the Kurbelgehause and stamped onto the points where the Werk Nummer was applied as a stamped number. The other components of the engine were also stamped as they were allocated to the build of a particular engine. Cheers

SM