Vehicle Watch stickers

[Angrydicky]

Morning everyone,

 

As some of you know I've been searching for a 'Vehicle Watch' sticker for my Maestro for some time now. They were seen in all good giffer owned cars back in the day, and most police forces participated in the scheme. The idea (I believe) was that if the car was never driven by anyone under 25 or between the hours of 11pm and 6am, you'd fit one of these stickers, then if plod saw a baseball cap behind the wheel at 2am they'd assume it was stolen and stop the car to get the drivers details.

 

Anyway, I have found someone who can reproduce them at a sensible price. I am planning to get a small batch (probably 10) made to start with then sell the surplus ones to AS members. To start with I'm just reproducing the Essex Police sticker, but if there is the demand other forces could be reproduced as well.

 

What I need, is the measurements of the following stickers. If anyone has either in their cars I would be most grateful if you could take a ruler outside with you! The AA relay stickers are specifically for my Maestro and these still come up on Ebay now and again but I can't find any at the moment.

 

 

 

Cheers!

[Alexg]

A Vehicle Watch sticker has been on my shoppinglist too, so I'd be keen, though would prefer Kent Police if I could be picky.

 

For some reason I remember them as yellow... or were they White with a hint of sun damage?

 

I do have a Relay sticker, so can grab the measurements this evening.

[Micrashed]

The Lancashire Plod ones were Sellafield Yellow, but did fade as time went on.

[Grundig]

The Lancashire Plod ones were Sellafield Yellow, but did fade as time went on.

...same with Cheshire police - day glow yellow/green

[Angrydicky]

If anyone has pictures of any of the above stickers that would be good.

[Billy - Medhurst]

Leicestershire ones were yellow by Derbyshire ones are different

DECAL / STICKER DERBYSHIRE CONSTABULARY VEHICLE WATCH by Midlands Vehicle Photographer., on Flickr

[af1]

Does anyone know if the metropolitan police did these?

 

 

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[Alexg]

Sorry AD, forgot all about this. Do you still need those measurements?

[Angrydicky]

Think I'm sorted now Alex, but thanks anyway!

[scooters]

Morning everyone,

 

As some of you know I've been searching for a 'Vehicle Watch' sticker for my Maestro for some time now. They were seen in all good giffer owned cars back in the day, and most police forces participated in the scheme. The idea (I believe) was that if the car was never driven by anyone under 25 or between the hours of 11pm and 6am, you'd fit one of these stickers, then if plod saw a baseball cap behind the wheel at 2am they'd assume it was stolen and stop the car to get the drivers details.

 

Anyway, I have found someone who can reproduce them at a sensible price. I am planning to get a small batch (probably 10) made to start with then sell the surplus ones to AS members. To start with I'm just reproducing the Essex Police sticker, but if there is the demand other forces could be reproduced as well.

 

What I need, is the measurements of the following stickers. If anyone has either in their cars I would be most grateful if you could take a ruler outside with you! The AA relay stickers are specifically for my Maestro and these still come up on Ebay now and again but I can't find any at the moment.

 

 

 

Cheers!

 

 

is that a Civil Service Motoring Association sticker?

 

I've got a magnificent steel grill badge for the CSMA on the Triumph 2000 - the pinnacle of suburban Gifferness MUST have been the membership of this association. You can even smell the brill cream and pipe smoke!

[tooSavvy]

My dad used BrillKreem..... to cement his combover in lardy lardyness

 

I take after Ma, thank god, and retain a vigorous mullet [see cover A$2014 Calender]

 

 

....... does Mr R. Charlton still do the 12" lash over ??

 

 

TS

[Formula Autos]

Cumbria Police also did a tyre check scheme a few years ago, with a similar sticker to the vehicle watch ones.

 

From what I remember of it you rolled into either ATS or KwikFit, waited until they had a couple of minutes, and they checked the condition and tread depth of your tyres for you, gratis. If the tyres were OK and had more than 3mm of tread, you were issued with a sticker and sent on your way. The colour of the stickers changed every couple of months, so that the rozzers knew roughly when you'd had your tyres checked. Obviously this also generated a bit more income for the tyre depots too, as they found the odd dodgy tyre and, as the car was already there ....

 

The giffers round here used to seem to treat these stickers as a badge of honour, and have a full row of them across the windscreen as a sort-of skinflint sunstrip. I guess they were trying to impress the rozzers by always having legal tyres, continually checked every other month. No doubt the only miles some of them racked up was back and forward to KwikFit for the tyre check.

 

This was in the late '90s, and seemed to just fizzle out after about three years.

 

Anyhoo,back to the point of the thread: Cumbria Police's vehicle watch stickers were also Sellafield yellow. Which was apt.

 

I'm not sure about the under-25 bit of the scheme though - I was about 19 or 20 when I put one in my Pug 106. Admittedly though, I wasn't tooling around at 2am in it - if I was out of the house at that time of night in those days I'd probably be in a nightclub, or the back of a Nissan Bluebird minicab.

 

I also spotted the flaw in the scheme from the off: smart joyriders or car thieves would surely just pull the sticker off at the first opportunity, surely? To try and mitigate this a little, I tried to position my sticker in the back window so that it wasn't too visible in the rear view mirror - giving it at least a fighting chance of not being spotted by said car thief. Having said that, the police advised me to put it in the top corner of the windscreen, where it would have been the work of a moment for your friendly local thieving scrote to peel it off as they drove away.

 

Not the most effective of schemes then ....

[Dead_E23]

Warley Vehicle Watch had different coloured stickers for different times of day.  I think there was one for night time and one for working hours; possibly others.  I'm a bit hazy on the colours but I think one was a greyish blue and the other a faded-looking salmon.

 

Did the other schemes have more than one type of sticker?

[trigger]

I have a AA Relay sticker stuck on the sunvisor of the Civic, do you still need the measurements of one?

[purplebargeken]

I'd be interested in one irrespective of area. Mine would have been Merseyside in the day.

[Angrydicky]

Ok chaps, here's what turned up yesterday. Got 16 left I think, although I'll be keeping a few for my own future chod the others will be available to Autoshiters for £2.50 each posted. I'm very impressed with them. 

 

I'd like to get West Midlands, Lancashire and Metropolitan done next if we can find decent pictures of each, once I've covered my costs of each I will get others reproduced. The guy doing them for me is willing to make others.

 

 

Being modeled by the Maestro.

 

 

 

 

 

Paypal address is angrydicky[at]hotmail.co.uk. Please state your real name, username, how many you want and your address when ordering please.

[Angrydicky]

I have a AA Relay sticker stuck on the sunvisor of the Civic, do you still need the measurements of one?

Yes please!

[trigger]

Right, the actual yellow part is 120mm x 30mm although there is a small clear sticker edge around it if that makes sense.

[trigger]

 

That looks good but shouldn't the area code have a ")" on the end?.

[Angrydicky]

I only spotted that when I looked back at the photos I took! He's missed it off, but it is only a very minor detail.

[purplebargeken]

I'll have a couple please, same if Lancashire is done.

[Shep Shepherd]

Essex ones would look GR11 on The Volvo, considering that it has spent 22 years of its life in the county

[worldofceri]

Perhaps for the sake of genericness (and as a nice little in-joke) the next batch could say "Autoshite Police"?

 

Likewise, how about "AS Relay"?

[Angrydicky]

Perhaps for the sake of genericness (and as a nice little in-joke) the next batch could say "Autoshite Police"?

 

Likewise, how about "AS Relay"?

Would anyone be willing to buy them? We've already got the Autoshite dealer stickers, although I must admit they never really appealed to me personally. Still if there is the demand over 'proper' replica stickers, I'll get them done.

[Alexg]

I'll take one please, will PP later

[purplebargeken]

My Essex vehicle watch stickers plopped onto the mat today and full marks to Richard for that. They are pretty bloody impressive by the way.

 

Cheers Richard.

[Alexg]

Received mine, it's great thanks!

[Angrydicky]

Excellent, I've got a few more here if anyone wants one!