05-01-2021, 05:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2021, 06:49 PM by Jeff Taylor.)
No, Geoff, as far as I'm aware all London registration records are described as 'Destroyed'. Of course many pre-war London records were destroyed during the blitz and those that weren't were apparently later destroyed on the formation of national central vehicle licensing at the then DVLC in Swansea from the mid 1960's onwards.
As you've discovered Cambridgeshire records still exist as does Oxfordshire who were extremely helpful to me back in the early 1970's regarding my 'DWL' Oxford registered 1936 Morris 8 Tourer by sending me the original buff and green logbooks which they still had on file. This meant I had the names and addresses of every owner including the cars very first - a female (spinster) senior physiotherapist working at the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Headington which interestingly had been built in 1933 following a donation of £70,000 (equivalent to £5 million today) from non other than William Morris himself. I believe it's now called the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. If you're wondering, I'm the cars thirteenth owner, it having passed through the hands of a number of USAF servicemen based at RAF Brize Norton in the early 1960's - if only the car could talk !
As you've discovered Cambridgeshire records still exist as does Oxfordshire who were extremely helpful to me back in the early 1970's regarding my 'DWL' Oxford registered 1936 Morris 8 Tourer by sending me the original buff and green logbooks which they still had on file. This meant I had the names and addresses of every owner including the cars very first - a female (spinster) senior physiotherapist working at the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Headington which interestingly had been built in 1933 following a donation of £70,000 (equivalent to £5 million today) from non other than William Morris himself. I believe it's now called the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. If you're wondering, I'm the cars thirteenth owner, it having passed through the hands of a number of USAF servicemen based at RAF Brize Norton in the early 1960's - if only the car could talk !