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British License Plates
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Bet Steve knows
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I don't know that there was just one type of plate then. When I bought my Sprite in 1962 I watched a mechanic make my license. He put plastic letters and numbers through holes in an aluminum plate. Then he used an old soldering iron to melt the pins on the back the panel. Mine was rectangular and I saw some that were square and some that were just stick on characters right on the body of the car.
It was parked on the grass when I upgraded to a Rover 2000. Needed something to tow my glider trailer.
Do not remember what happened to the TR. It needed a complete rebuild including frame work. Had fiberglass front wings and front apron and lots of filler everywhere. I forgot how bad it looked. Some of the body supports had rusted off the frame. The British weather was really hard on cars.
My Mum may have got tired of looking at it and had it hauled off. I did a lot of miles in that car over a period of 5 years.
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Do not remember what happened to the TR. It needed a complete rebuild including frame work. Had fiberglass front wings and front apron and lots of filler everywhere. I forgot how bad it looked. Some of the body supports had rusted off the frame. The British weather was really hard on cars.
My Mum may have got tired of looking at it and had it hauled off. I did a lot of miles in that car over a period of 5 years.
David
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I remember when I got the Jag, took a photo and posted it on a train forum.
One of the regulars (who resides in the UK):
"You Bloody Yanks. You're so arrogant. Take those phony British plates off that Jag. There were never any number a nd letter combinations like that on England...ever."
My response was calm....agreeable (to a certain point).
"You are absolutely right, there were probably never any plates like that in the UK.
However...they are Singapore, and I have the MOT book for this car and those plates."
Dead.
Quiet.
So, you see, you can be "wrong" in people's expectations of what plates on an LBC should look like..and still be "right" and push countless buttons in the process.
One of the regulars (who resides in the UK):
"You Bloody Yanks. You're so arrogant. Take those phony British plates off that Jag. There were never any number a nd letter combinations like that on England...ever."
My response was calm....agreeable (to a certain point).
"You are absolutely right, there were probably never any plates like that in the UK.
However...they are Singapore, and I have the MOT book for this car and those plates."
Dead.
Quiet.
So, you see, you can be "wrong" in people's expectations of what plates on an LBC should look like..and still be "right" and push countless buttons in the process.
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Cars of that age would have usually had the stamped aluminium plates, black background with raised silver letters and numbers. 
This would have been on the back of certain cars where a conventional plates wouldn't easily fit, such as the VW Beetle.
These I believe would have been a slightly later design, raised silver digits but mounted individually, rather than being stamped... But still acceptable.
This would have been on the back of certain cars where a conventional plates wouldn't easily fit, such as the VW Beetle.
These I believe would have been a slightly later design, raised silver digits but mounted individually, rather than being stamped... But still acceptable.
This is a photo of our New car in Ireland. Must have been in 1955 or 56. It was a Hillman Minx.
Ireland tended to follow Britain on things like license plates. You can see the numbers appear to be the raised type, maybe the separate numbers assembled to a backing plate.
David
Ireland tended to follow Britain on things like license plates. You can see the numbers appear to be the raised type, maybe the separate numbers assembled to a backing plate.
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Researching on various sites to find the proper tag for the front of my 55 TF, this tag with raised letters Steve shows is what was used during that period. Thanks Steve for the picture. Letters giving different areas of registration. PJ
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So is the guy in this picture jumping out of the way? Rendering his opinion of the car? Has he thrown a skunk into it? Enquuiring minds need to know.
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