Rear roof strengtheners - ribbed or not ribbed

[busben]

yeh yeh ok . So I was hoping someone could shed some light on the different styles of rear corner roof strengtheners / speaker brackets or whatever they are on a deluxe bus. Some seem to have strengthening ribs in, and some do not. Anyone know when a change took place? Who's got what on their deluxes?

Here's a few for starters:

Oct '54 deluxe (with ribs):

unknown date '53 - '55 deluxe (no ribs):

unknown date '54 - '55 deluxe (no ribs):

Thanks guys!

[Rusting Hulk]

Ask Rockstock Ben, he has some pics of different ones. From memory mine are ribbed (feb55)
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[RockStock]

see this thread
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344969
seems update to ribbed version occurred sometime between 1953 and 1954

a guess would be at the end of the deep skylight model
which www.barndoor.dk has as between 20-044995 and 20-049493
somewhere Jan to March 1953
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[busben]

Thanks guys,

I've seen the flat style ones on later deluxes with no fuseboxes in the dash. I assume that the fusebox detail changed in Dec 53 like the standard pods, so a fair whack later than the change from deep skylights? Any '53 / '54 deluxe owners out there care to shed any light?

[Bergepanzer]

52 deluxe ones are different as well.

They have a larger speaker mount hole and four fixation holes.
No pressings.

[Demian_S]

My June -54 deluxe (20-088770) has the smooth style speaker bracket.

[busben]

Cheers Demian,

A couple more:

20-91270 = June '54 = smooth

20-95904 = 1st Week Sept '54 = smooth

So sometime between the first week of Sept and the second week October they changed to ribbed.

[busben]

http://www.kustomcoachwerks.com/drop_box/Picture%20052.jpg

TomTom = ribbed = 20 99127 = Sept '54