Well gent's,
Nothing like a great dialogue on a great old firearm, i'll say that i must agree and disagree. lets read the work order and evaluate it both ways. is it a note on how the gun showed up for prior to the work requested? or is it a request for work to be preformed?
Lets start out with the letter itself: NOTE: Information in this box is evaluation, observation, "notes on repair or condition of firearm" (the non-conclusive part, could be both ways,) determined by service department repairman and/or supervisor, and "not elsewhere list on the repair set" (thats why ruger repairman listed the Micro below, no such part is in there inventory, thus listed below as per the NOTE block "not elsewhere list on this repair set) that makes sense.
States: w/ Micro sight, steel housing & XR-3 grip frame, the Micro was never offered for sale as a "add-on" (thus, thats what this discussion is all about) the steel housing was listed, was available and was changed, the grip frame was listed above on the work order, was available and was changed. (this can only be concluded that this was a request and that this request was carried out as per the gun owners request)
NOTE: panels for XR-3 grip frame are no longer available from the factory. (this can only be concluded as a request for grip panels, or an order as what the owner wanted, it would be nonsensical to think that this note any other way? Ruger informing the customer that there not made any more, thus not available. (flip the coin, the Ruger employee would know that there not available, it can only be concluded that this is a request, not an on coming observation. the costumer would had to have requested them. think about it, ruger is noting that grip panels are no longer available as a condition of how this gun was received?)
Replace with parts listed above: that statment is self evident, concludes that the customer wanted the parts changes listed above, to include the grip panels that where not available any more. only making a reasonable thinking guy that informing the panels that are no longer available is not the condition of how the gun showed up for requested repair.
In my conclusion, All the parts list above where added to the gun, the one part that was not available, was noted on this form, thus was return with the chipped grip panel. this only reinforces the premise that the notes listed below are what was requested, not how the gun show up at ruger for requested repairs.
Also, request on this work sheet was for a new cylinder, is was listed on the "work order set" this was changed out to a Super cylinder, BUT was not listed on the "NOTES" block? why? they had the part (although it was a "super" there was a spot in the work order set block, thus thats why it was NOT listed below in the NOTE's block. reinforces the thought that parts where wanted but not available or not list on the work order sheet would be listed below. (flip the coin, why was not the Old model 44 cylinder not listed as not available?, or why making it a request would seem the reason to me.
ump in on the thoughts......Scott
and I hope you have a satisfying sell 
