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[D4B]

Hello,

My father is wondering if the whereabouts of 3 of his old
cars is known? All 3 vehicles are showing up as still registered
at the DVLA, and 2 of them have current road tax too

Austin 7 TR 31**

MG TC EDL 3**

Harbilt Electric Milkfloat MPO 2**D

Somewhere I do have pictures of the Austin and the MG.

please feel free to mp me if you prefer.

Many Thanks
Steve.

[D4B]

Here is a very poor pic of what i believe is the MG
(please correct me if i'm wrong....!)

[MVPeters]

Steve


You may have some luck tracking down the Harbilt on one of these sites - the Yahoo group is the most active.

http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/milko/

Good luck
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2002 MINI Cooper 'S'

[Penman]

Hi
If you go to the photos section of the first link, and then Random Floats 2 you will find a couple of pics of Harbilt floats
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[D4B]

Thanks to both Mike & Penman, he will find those sites very interesting!! I particularly liked the mp3 sound of a milkfloat you can download onto your phone Thanks

I will go hunt the pic of the Austin 7 next....

[Rick]

If you mention the full registrations of the vehicles you're researching, sooner or later a current owner might land on this thread via a search online, and be able to contact you.

Similar things have happened with a few of the vehicles that feature on the main site.

RJ
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[D4B]

Bit late seeing your reply Rick, so here goes:

Austin 7 TR 3103

MG TC EDL 398

Harbilt Electric Milkfloat MPO 297D

my father ran a dairy and operated a fleet of Harbilt electric milk floats... he took the dairy over from my grandfather who used to deliver the milk from the sidecar on his Norton motorcycle.... how I wish I had a picture of that

Cheers Steve

[mikeC]

TR 3103 is still around, according to the DVLA it's a 1927 Austin Seven; it does not appear on the Austin Seven Clubs Association register, so I would guess it belongs to a VSCC member, many of whom are not members of Austin Seven clubs.

[D4B]

Hi Mike,

Many thanks, it's got current road tax too:

The vehicle details for TR 3103 are:
Date of Liability 01 07 2014
Date of First Registration 24 01 1927
Year of Manufacture 1927
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 749cc
CO₂ Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker N
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour BLUE
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available


I scoured the VSCC galleries but couldn't see it there! At least now I know I am looking for a blue one!

Cheers

[Classic_Dave]

Rick is right, I typed a registration of a MG TC that belonged to my uncle into google and found the car straight away. Within 10 minutes had swapped email with the present owner and forwarded the photo on to him.

[Rick]

See, it works - someone dropped me a line this morning after spotting a photo of the restored EDL 398 on facebook, and reading D4B's post here from a while back.

The car is now at Hartlepool College of Further Education, and has been rebuilt by students.




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[D4B]

WOW ! Thanks Rick, can't wait to tell him

[Peter_L]

May I suggest that you contact Hartlepool College of Further Education, they could very well be interested in hearing from a former owner. [/img]

[D4B]