Source of period number plates

[diffwhine]

The only think I do note about mine was that it was owned by Lord and Lady Price of Wakehurst Place (Now the RHS Seedbank "Wakehurst" in West Sussex). I've seen similar plates on very expensive Rolls and similar type cars, so wonder if its just something that was done by those who have rather than those (like the rest of us minions) who have not? As mine is a (then very expensive) Station Wagon, and so the equivelant of a Range Rover I suppose, perhaps it justified the expensive plates.

[Alan Drover]

The top registration plate is the one originally from the 1963 Tornado Talisman that donated its number to my MG. (I tried them on the MG but they didn't look right with rubber bumpers). They're identical pressed aluminium as the Land Rover ones so that would appear to be correct for that period.

[jonhutchings]

The only think I do note about mine was that it was owned by Lord and Lady Price of Wakehurst Place (Now the RHS Seedbank "Wakehurst" in West Sussex). I've seen similar plates on very expensive Rolls and similar type cars, so wonder if its just something that was done by those who have rather than those (like the rest of us minions) who have not? As mine is a (then very expensive) Station Wagon, and so the equivelant of a Range Rover I suppose, perhaps it justified the expensive plates.

Sounds plausible. Talking with a friend who is pretty clued up on vintage cars, he says cast aluminium number plates were fairly common until the second world war. I guess a few places carried on with them,