24-01-2020, 09:21 AM
(23-01-2020, 10:31 PM)Tony Press Wrote: From the surviving Longbridge record books at Gaydon, the Car Numbers were issued and recorded by the Factory so it would seem to be logical that Longbridge 'engraved' the car number plate.What we ought to start checking is the UK cars of similar age? The "engraving" looks subtly different to the stamping I've noticed on the former, but could that be because they might have been done in slightly different parts of the factory? Here is a NON EXPORT car number tag, but this isn't as early as some of those others so isn't really that helpful perhaps: