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License plate mounting plate
Mike Costigan Offline
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Location: Sherwood Forest
Car type: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
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08-08-2021, 10:54 AM
Charles Wright is a reasonable modern font to use, although I consider it more a post-war style; pre-war the figures such as 2,3,6,8,9 & 0 tended to have a much rounder profile. Hand-painted lettering almost always adopted a very 'circular' profile, and cast-alloy plates and those with individual cast letters were usually similar; the squarer-style similar to Charles Wright seems to have developed in the late-1930s with the pressed-alloy plates. 

A quick search through photos of my old cars produced the following:

Hand-painted:


.jpg   1969 crop (2).jpg (Size: 20.84 KB / Downloads: 220)   
.jpg   Image3 (2).jpg (Size: 24.88 KB / Downloads: 220)   
.jpg   IMG_5247 (2).JPG (Size: 24.46 KB / Downloads: 220)   

cast-alloy:


.jpg   019 (2).jpg (Size: 26.2 KB / Downloads: 220)   
.jpg   2018-06-20-0003 (2).jpg (Size: 19.99 KB / Downloads: 220)   
.jpg   rear (2).JPG (Size: 27.56 KB / Downloads: 219)

individual cast-alloy letters:


.jpg   006 (2).jpg (Size: 22.49 KB / Downloads: 220)   
.png   1986 Malvern (2).png (Size: 26.23 KB / Downloads: 220)
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License plate mounting plate - by SneezerUSA - 07-08-2021, 03:15 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Nick Turley - 07-08-2021, 04:30 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by SneezerUSA - 07-08-2021, 09:06 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Bob Culver - 07-08-2021, 09:07 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by SneezerUSA - 07-08-2021, 10:15 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Mike Costigan - 08-08-2021, 10:54 AM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by SneezerUSA - 08-08-2021, 06:49 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by SneezerUSA - 08-08-2021, 08:50 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Bob Culver - 09-08-2021, 02:56 AM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Lowespeed - 09-08-2021, 01:25 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Hedd_Jones - 09-08-2021, 09:24 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by SneezerUSA - 09-08-2021, 10:26 PM
RE: License plate mounting plate - by Bob Culver - 10-08-2021, 02:26 AM

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