License plate mounting plate

[Stuart Giles]

I've always painted my number plates having drawn the letters and numbers on a sheet of paper before chalking the back of the paper and running over the figures with a pencil to provide the chalk line guide. I've never used any particular font, perhaps I've been lucky in not meeting any especially pedantic police officers so far .



The above pic was taken on a rally in the south of France, I think we had enough camping gear on board to seriously affect the aerodynamics.....

With one of the latest projects I decided to have a nod towards the cast Aluminium plates often used in the late 20s & early 30's. the originals must have been made with pattern letters and numbers that slotted together on a frame. But as I'm not going into production, I just cut out the letters using a scroll saw and glued them onto some thin ply. I asked the blokes at the foundry to use a traditional oil sand for this job rather than their usual Petrobond sand which would have produced too fine a finish.