The Wedgister - Princess and Ambassador Records

[phil_lihp]

These popped up on the Princess owners Facebook group - hopefully the owners of the images don't mind me sharing them on here.  Doesn't look like either of them are on the list yet.

AVE 718V

TKW 612T

 

[dozeydustman]

@vulgalour Someone in an 80s group on F*cebook posted this advert earlier today.

  Right at the start an Ambassador MUV761Y?

[sdkrc]

4 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

@vulgalour Someone in an 80s group on F*cebook posted this advert earlier today.

  Right at the start an Ambassador MUV761Y?

I think this could be RUV761Y

[dozeydustman]

3 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

I think this could be RUV761Y

Very Likely.

[Fumbler]

55 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

I think this could be RUV761Y

 

51 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Very Likely.

Lasted nearly 11 years too:

[Shandylegs]

On 17/08/2020 at 12:59, rob88h said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313186117767
 

Don’t know if you’ve seen this one before, I couldn’t see it in your list. Just popped up on eBay. 
 

This appears to be doing the rounds and has had a bit of a mark up from the £300ish it was originally advertised for!

[sdkrc]

A189GKV

There's another 7seconds in but I can't make out the number plate

[Billy - Medhurst]

One to add to the T's

[sdkrc]

EWL128T

 

And it's already listed but there's no associated photo of UOX766S

 

Edit: I can't remember if you're doing foreign ones too. This one's in NZ

 

[Richard_FM]

EWL...T was a series of unissued Oxford registrations used for mocked up plates on publicity pictures.

I have EWL127T attached.

[sdkrc]

UOK255S

[martc]

On 10/25/2020 at 10:09 AM, Billy - Medhurst said:

One to add to the T's

That's a Hull number and it's going through the toll booths for the Humber Bridge.

[LightBulbFun]

a period picture of one spotted on the facebooks I dont see it in the list so thought I should post about it  (well that and the serck plates)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/carsyoudontseeanymore/permalink/2953076625013883/

[vulgalour]

I have had zero time to do anything with this lately, sorry about that folks.  Hopefully I get some seasonal time free to go through these latest finds properly and update the existing content.  I still appreciate folks taking the time to put their finds in here.

[dozeydustman]

From old shite in old days

LBT207N? DVLA have this as an Austin 1800 tax expired Jan 1985

[vulgalour]

Austin 1800 makes sense for an earlier car like that, the first ones were 18-22 rather than Princess and badged Austin, Morris, or Wolseley.  Earlier cars tend to shop up as Leyland Cars, Austin, Morris, or Woleseley, later ones tend to show up as Austin Morris, Austin-Morris.  Modern systems tend to list all variants as Rovers, which they never were.

That's a great photograph too, just the sort of thing I love to see.

[Richard_FM]

2 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Austin 1800 makes sense for an earlier car like that, the first ones were 18-22 rather than Princess and badged Austin, Morris, or Wolseley.  Earlier cars tend to shop up as Leyland Cars, Austin, Morris, or Woleseley, later ones tend to show up as Austin Morris, Austin-Morris.  Modern systems tend to list all variants as Rovers, which they never were.

When the DVLA system required you to enter the manufacturers name it was hard to look up 1970s-80s Minis as they would be listed British Leyland, Leyland, Leyland Cars, Austin, Morris, Austin Morris, Austin-Rover or Mini, & possibly one or two other names.

[dozeydustman]

No reg number unfortunately. https://driventowrite.com/2016/09/16/wolseley-18-22-princess-til-salg-history/

[sdkrc]

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1246565

LOA438X

[bunglebus]

Excellent set of slot mags. That name Turtleback springs to mind for some reason

[Norbert]

As promised ages ago, a photo of A468KEX (you'll just have to trust me on that as the plate isn't visible) in special "high quality scan of a low quality image" format.

[uk_senator]

On 12/2/2020 at 11:46 PM, Richard_FM said:

When the DVLA system required you to enter the manufacturers name it was hard to look up 1970s-80s Minis as they would be listed British Leyland, Leyland, Leyland Cars, Austin, Morris, Austin Morris, Austin-Rover or Mini, & possibly one or two other names.

God, I completely forgot about that, what an absolute arse ache that was with BL stuff..

[vulgalour]

 

On 10/3/2020 at 7:39 PM, sdkrc said:

I think this could be RUV761Y

I just realised that this one is a bit odd.  As far as I can remember, this is the only 'Rover' registered wedge on the Wedgister.  I've got some time off coming up at the end of this month so I'm hoping to spend a couple of days getting this caught up properly.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

My old Zircon blue 2.0 HL Ambassador was A782EAO.

[uk_senator]

Oh, your trying to compile a list of them? My Princess was HJP10V IIRC (still got the log book somewhere), a Java green 1700HL, I think I binned it in 91/92 (after timing belt failure). I cant for the life of me remember my Ambassadors plate now.. None of it, I`ve got a feeling it was 82, but dont quote me..

There was both a Princess & an Ambassador in East Barnet till the late noughties (as well as a white Lancia Dedra), I suspect they all belonged to the same bloke, but then, poof, they vanished. Ones still on 2008 Streetview:



I noticed this one on streetview a couple of years ago, alas it was gone when I eagerly went to find it (& no one answered when I knocked).

[LightBulbFun]

57 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

 

I just realised that this one is a bit odd.  As far as I can remember, this is the only 'Rover' registered wedge on the Wedgister.  I've got some time off coming up at the end of this month so I'm hoping to spend a couple of days getting this caught up properly.

I would not read too much into it

if you stick it into the actual DVLA checker it comes back as an Austin

for whatever reason a lot of BMC to BL vehicles show up as ROVER in the MOT checker

even the The Auotoshite big yellow Triaxle Leyland Olympian of win (RIP) amusingly shows up as a ROVER in the MOT checker

[Mr Laurence]

1 hour ago, uk_senator said:

I noticed this one on streetview a couple of years ago, alas it was gone when I eagerly went to find it (& no one answered when I knocked).

Any idea what the all the tape is for? Covering rust holes or holding the doors on?

[uk_senator]

3 minutes ago, Mr Laurence said:

Any idea what the all the tape is for? Covering rust holes or holding the doors on?

I cant say, as I never spoke to the owner. The tape on the tops of the doors were likely to cover a fairly common rust spot, mine was going there back in the early 90`s, the lower front door tape seems to be covering damage, the C-Pillar tape is just covering the original (probably cracked) vinyl, the A-Pillar tape is probably covering a bloody great hole, the vertical line between the front door & wing is a bit of a mystery, may be for aerodynamics..

I was absolutely gutted when I went & it wasn't there.. I looked like the little boy at the end of The Snowman, when all there was left was a carrot, a scarf & a few bits of coal..

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, uk_senator said:

I noticed this one on streetview a couple of years ago, alas it was gone when I eagerly went to find it (& no one answered when I knocked).

Wow, that looks like an early one - is that JPU33N just visible on the plate?

 

Bronze Morris 1800, registered in March '75? Quite possibly a launch car. Top spottage!

[uk_senator]

28 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Wow, that looks like an early one - is that JPU33N just visible on the plate?

 

Bronze Morris 1800, registered in March '75? Quite possibly a launch car. Top spottage!

That is the correct number plate, registered 25-3-1975. Five owners before the last one, who acquired it on 14-5-1981.
Its not actually coming up as scrapped, or having changed hands, but, that may mean nothing.

According to my 1978 Parkers, the Princess (under Leyland, not Morris) was launched in October 75, which would make this one rather special. Even more gutting that its gone then..

As you can see from these pics, it was/is hanging quite badly (apart from the arches, which look strangely fantastic), I just wish I`d got to see it in person..