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What is this car? [Part 3]

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Purchased this picture (plus a whole bunch others) at a collectors show today, I think those are British plates... Took a quick look at a book, looks like an early Morris Oxford to me... Now that licence plate - EA 1980 (I think), where would that plate have been issued originally?

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Cool... Maybe some of your relatives then? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Hi Steve,

Where do you get this reg info from (or is it a trade secret)?

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I have mine in a 1959 Observers Book of Automobiles. I used to underline each registration when I had seen it on a car!
I think that was before I discovered the invention of girls.
Curtis
 
Great website Ken! That's actually very useful for a whole bunch of things.
 
I remember the EA registrations from when I was a kid.....also JW and DA. I do use references such as the one that Ken mentioned, but not too long ago, I did need to be able to recognise when a number did not "fit", either on a car or in the area...got quite good at that!
 
Steve,

I got pulled over many years ago by Guildford police who must have been on a fishing expedition. I was driving a 'foreign' car (Leicester registration) when they pulled me over after following me for half a mile or so in the dark allegedly for not displaying a tax disk. They must have had amazing eyesight as at the time my tax disc had fallen off my front windscreen and was resting on the dash. However I did have a carpaking sticker from my work in the same place that was identical in size and shape to the registration disc. They could obviously see through the sillouette of a sticker on my windscreen from the back and see what was on the other side! After walking around the car kicking each wheel, checking the lights and rocking the car they must have noticed the tax disc and used that as an excuse!

Still they let me off with a stern word.

The only other time the Police have 'had a word' was when they suspected me of Badger baiting!
 
Yes, a car with an obvious out-of-area number plate was always good for a pull, and "No tax disc" was just an excuse to pull you over. They weren't looking for traffic offences, but for crime. Once it was obvious that you were "clean" they weren't interested. Badger baiting? Wot me guv? Other than you and me, there aren't many on here who know what that is...... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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