09-01-2019, 04:45 PM
(09-01-2019, 01:39 PM)Lance Sheldrick Wrote:(09-01-2019, 09:43 AM)Mike Costigan Wrote: OK 9365 is almost certainly not that car's original UK registration number. The OK series was finished before the end of 1923, and the car is clearly a C-type car dating from late 1924 onwards. It is not uncommon for British cars in the USA to acquire registration plates which do not match the original car (and I must admit I have done exactly the same thing in reverse - I imported a 1914 Saxon from the States and later acquired a set of period Connecticut licence plates which attached to the car).
OK 9365 is the registration number used on the cover illustration of the 1972 edition of Wyatt's Austin Seven Motor for the Millions book so may be spurious, although the model of chummy ie AC type is the same.
My third edition (1982) of Wyatt has a 3/4 rear view of OK9365 opposite page 48. "A contemporary view of one of the first Sevens taken in 1923 which shows the horn button & CAV switch panel on the extreme right of the dash"
The photo reproduction is poor, but does this car have these features.....