17-03-2021, 12:39 PM
Hi,
Firstly it seems tax discs always ran until the year end so if you taxed a car in October the disc would run until December the same year. On the disc the annual rate of duty is shown but you only paid for the number of months left in the year.
I’ve also determined what I believe are the correct details to enter on the disc although I’m happy to be corrected.
On several original discs of the period the HP was entered as either 7.8 or 8 so I’ve decided to go with 8 which seems the more common.
The seat capacity and Unladen Weight have been just struck through which ties up with my recollection that even much later when discs were still hand written in the post office this information was only ever entered for commercial vehicles.
The Class, Mark and Colour are self explanatory, Class being Private for a normal passenger car.
The annual rate of duty was £1 / Horsepower from 1921 until it was reduced by 25% from 1935. This means on the 1929 expiry disk I’m using the annual fee should be £8 but from 1935 it would be £6.
Hope this may help.
John.
Firstly it seems tax discs always ran until the year end so if you taxed a car in October the disc would run until December the same year. On the disc the annual rate of duty is shown but you only paid for the number of months left in the year.
I’ve also determined what I believe are the correct details to enter on the disc although I’m happy to be corrected.
On several original discs of the period the HP was entered as either 7.8 or 8 so I’ve decided to go with 8 which seems the more common.
The seat capacity and Unladen Weight have been just struck through which ties up with my recollection that even much later when discs were still hand written in the post office this information was only ever entered for commercial vehicles.
The Class, Mark and Colour are self explanatory, Class being Private for a normal passenger car.
The annual rate of duty was £1 / Horsepower from 1921 until it was reduced by 25% from 1935. This means on the 1929 expiry disk I’m using the annual fee should be £8 but from 1935 it would be £6.
Hope this may help.
John.