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Early Seven in India - Jeff Taylor - 20-02-2019
This photo of a newly restored Morris Minor was taken yesterday and has recently been uploaded to a Morris Forum. In the background is what appears to be a very early Seven - the owner believes 1922 / 23. It does feature on the A7CA Chassis Register with a query against it, but only gives its registration number of RNL 9450. Both myself and another Morris Forum member have asked for more details and I've suggested to the owner that he updates the chassis register via the online notification form for which I've provided him a link.
http://a7ca.org/chassis-register/regresults
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RE: Early Seven in India - Biddlecombe - 20-02-2019
Can you have 3 letters and 4 numbers in UK?
RE: Early Seven in India - Jeff Taylor - 20-02-2019
Not as far as I'm aware, I would imagine this is an Indian registration system. It's possible the car's been in India for most / all of its life - I believe the Morris Minor has.
RE: Early Seven in India - Martin Prior - 20-02-2019
Northern Ireland uses three letters and four numbers (both ways round), but nowhere else in the UK ever has. The Chummy has an Indian registration.
RE: Early Seven in India - Hugh Barnes - 20-02-2019
What Jeff didn't mention is the cars are in Jaipur....
RE: Early Seven in India - Chris KC - 21-02-2019
Ah...
The first one is captioned 'Andul-Raschid und Abdul Hamid Ghani Austin Chummy von 1923'
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RE: Early Seven in India - Hugh Barnes - 21-02-2019
Good find Chris. Have to admit, it does look early... We are waiting for a chassis number etc on the Morris forum that Jeff mentioned having pointed the owner (? - the owner of the Minor at least) at the 'quote this number' pdf to aid him...
RE: Early Seven in India - Chris KC - 21-02-2019
The registration number format is consistent with post-independence Indian issue. I don't recognize RN though - Rajasthan is RJ.
Prior to independence the format was 1 letter: 4 numbers (until 1939) then 2 letters : 4 numbers until 1947.
RE: Early Seven in India - Jeff Taylor - 21-02-2019
Hugh,
Likewise I'm not really sure whether the Minor man is the owner of all the vintage / classic vehicles in that workshop / sprayshop - perhaps he operates a car restoration business from there - he's certainly moved at a fast pace on the Minor restoration in the past few weeks. There's a large possibly late 1920's American saloon in there with a similar registration format - looks to be RSL 5344.
Jeff.
RE: Early Seven in India - Bill Sheehan - 21-02-2019
The car looks to me like a '23 or early '24, but seems to have large brakes. Because of the wide number plate it's difficult for me to tell whether it has provision for shock absorbers, or even if dampers are fitted? But how great it looks. I particularly like the shot taken behind the camel. Cheers, Bill in Oz