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PeterR
Joined: 10 Dec 2009 Posts: 3 Location: North Yorks
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: Number Plates - a continuing saga |
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This being my first post - I trust I'm getting it right and not getting up someones nose!!! Anyway, I've a 1934, 2 Seat Austin Seven Open Tourer - sometimes known as a pre-opal. The car has hand-painted number plates and both the plates and registration number look original. The plates have clearly been over painted many times and I'd like to get them back to something like the original but I'm struggling to establish the correct type-face (in mobern parlance!). Looking through the other correspondance, it's probably 3.5 inch lettering but does anyone know the style?
Any help appreciated - PeterR |
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buzzy bee
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
There was a site link posted on here a while back, when I asked the question, that gave you age dates, and the type face etc.
Will try to find it.
Welcome along too, have you any pics/information on your Seven, have you done much to her, had her long etc?
Cheers
Dave |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22453 Location: UK
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PeterR
Joined: 10 Dec 2009 Posts: 3 Location: North Yorks
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Guys -
The car details as far as I've been able to establish:
Build May 1934, first registered 7th June 1934 in Chelmsford, Essex. The pre-DVLA log book I've got was issued 23rd January 1956 in Ferring, near Worthing, Sussex. Since then, she's pottered around the South Coast before settling on the Isle of Wight until I bought her in April this year and trailered her up to North Yorkshire. Once I've got the hang of this site I'll upload some photo's. Pete |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22453 Location: UK
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buzzy bee
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Thats the one! Cheers!! |
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Roger-hatchy
Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:09 am Post subject: |
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Anyone any comment on these for 1959 reg.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360245933755&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
I posted it on my DLM thread but thought I'd put them here as well
Has anyone ever seen or used these people before, are they too cheap at £20
There's a lot of sales pitch, is it just pitch.
I'm thinking of the old saying ' you get what you pay for' might be relevent.
To us old pensioners £20 is a lot if their no good, but a saving if they are good. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22453 Location: UK
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Roger-hatchy
Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Although I'd still go for painted on numbers
RJ[/quote]
Cheeky D
I'm not THAT old
Neither is the car |
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RotaryBri
Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 465 Location: Warwick
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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The company that I worked for in 1957 were still having numberplate characters painted on as most cars at that time came with a stove enameled black numberplate on the car. It was cheaper than buying plates.
To answer a query in the first posting there was no standard font until the current numberplates introduced in 2001. You could use any style that you liked but the characters had to conform to the legal dimensions in the regulations in force at the time. _________________ Keep Torqueing,
RotaryBri
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