The Wedgister - Princess and Ambassador Records

[Richard_FM]

I've wondered how well a hatchback Princess would have done.

The B series engine was another odd choice, rather than using the 1750cc E unit.

Supposedly BL considered selling them in the USA & wanted to use an engines mechanics would find easy to work on if they have fixed up an MGB.

It also helps 40 years on when restoring them that many parts are available from MG specialists.

[JeeExEll]

[Craig the Princess]

Saw VOX877T in a road safety film on youtube.

https://youtu.be/-5jtcubrTxk

[MorrisItalSLX]

STOP THE PRESSES!

[Austat]

LHD Princess 1800 HL near the French/Belgian border, €2000:

 

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1933776749.htm?ac=4051296304

[Split_Pin]

Filmed this weekend in a car graveyard somewhere in Scotland by a YouTuber called AMS Vauxhall.

 

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Filmed this weekend in a car graveyard somewhere in Scotland by a YouTuber called AMS Vauxhall.

 

It was taxed as recently as 1 September 2012!

LWK...P was a Coventry issue of September 1975.

[sdkrc]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/147628073848788/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Ae24d5e41-f202-4bac-9254-ffad46b60160

SNP345Y courtesy of @MarvinsMom in the eBay thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 2/22/2021 at 11:21 AM, JeeExEll said:

Beer mats printed in 1975.  Rather odd product association advertising but it was the 70s.

I'd say the association was entirely appropriate, as mass market beer was often shite at this time. Watneys Party Seven served warm, anyone?

[ProgRocker]

@vulgalourI think this one needs adding to the wedgister:

Princess 2.2 HLS

What does HLS stand for - HighLine Special? Sounds palatial.

 

[ProgRocker]

On 08/04/2021 at 09:32, Tadhg Tiogar said:

 Watneys Party Seven served warm, anyone?

Brewed in my home city apparently. My dad told me it wasn't very nice.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

Brewed in my home city apparently. My dad told me it wasn't very nice.

....and was a major reason why CAMRA was established!

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

@vulgalourI think this one needs adding to the wedgister:

Princess 2.2 HLS

What does HLS stand for - HighLine Special? Sounds palatial.

 

YOP...T was a Birmingham issue of February 1979.

[Dick Longbridge]

Have we had these taxis yet? 

[Richard_FM]

AWX...S was a Leeds issue of April 1978.

[flat4alfa]

Yes AWX853X is already on the Wedgister

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Have we had these taxis yet? 

Was that Briggate in Leeds? I think I've seen the traffic signal gantry in other photos....

[Dick Longbridge]

6 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Was that Briggate in Leeds? I think I've seen the traffic signal gantry in other photos....

Vicar Lane, Leeds apparently. 

[Slappy]

Had quick look through via search and CTRL+F, but I don't think we have this one; VOD873S:

 

With that backdrop though, who cares if it's a pearoast.

[dozeydustman]

Those Triumph alloys look quite nice on that.

[bunglebus]

Found on Facebook 

 

[Richard_FM]

VOD...S was an Exeter issue of August 1977 & SAF...Y a Truro issue of November 1982.

[Gareth Hughes]

Hi All - not sure if you could include my Fathers old wedges on the data base both long gone by now I would think and having looked on DVLA site. The first 1800 HL in dark green WPE47S and its replacement  a russet brown 2000 HL       XFF 570W

[bunglebus]

From Facebook. Reg isn't shown unfortunately 

 

[dozeydustman]

52 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

From Facebook. Reg isn't shown unfortunately 

 

I was bored. Wife is still asleep and I have wifi at a substantial  56k

Could be this one

 

 

[LightBulbFun]

6 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

I was bored. Wife is still asleep and I have wifi at a substantial  56k

Could be this one

 

 

ohh nice work!

id say so given it had a V5 issued in 2011 and an MOT issued in 2010 where it comes back as a PRINCESS 2200 HL  

strangely untaxed since 1992, I do wonder what the circumstances are when a vehicle successfully gets MOT'ed but still never returned to the road

@Andrew353w's Skoda was like that, MOT'ed fairly recently (well in 2006!) but untaxed since 1989 still

(although in this Princess's case the cynic in me wonders if it was MOT'ed in 2010 to rob it of its plate but it never happened for one reason or another)

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Could be this one

Surprised that hasn't been plate raped

[dozeydustman]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Surprised that hasn't been plate raped

It’s would be an ideal plate for me, being Rea is my surname

[dozeydustman]

9 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

ohh nice work!

id say so given it had a V5 issued in 2011 and an MOT issued in 2010 where it comes back as a PRINCESS 2200 HL  

strangely untaxed since 1992, I do wonder what the circumstances are when a vehicle successfully gets MOT'ed but still never returned to the road

@Andrew353w's Skoda was like that, MOT'ed fairly recently (well in 2006!) but untaxed since 1989 still

(although in this Princess's case the cynic in me wonders if it was MOT'ed in 2010 to rob it of its plate but it never happened for one reason or another)

I hadn’t tried many *EA combinations; I got as far as E then decided just to put R in and a green wedge appeared! I know you have more tools than I do Dez so I reckon you could do a fair bit of poking around.

[LightBulbFun]

49 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I hadn’t tried many *EA combinations; I got as far as E then decided just to put R in and a green wedge appeared! I know you have more tools than I do Dez so I reckon you could do a fair bit of poking around.

to be fair the tools I have dont generally do partial marks I still have to know the full reg or VIN number to get a result

so if someone handed me the picture and said "figure out the rest of its reg" I would of done exactly as you did  

 

although I do have a couple tricks up my sleeve to help speed up this process

in that because I have spent far too much time studying the English vehicle registration system

I know generally for a given Suffix, what leading letter would go with that suffix letter

for example I know that an R Suffix car would more then likely start with a late alphabetical letter so there would no point trying saying BEA5R so I would skip to probably REA-R straight away (as I know most registration series had alphabetically made it to R, by the R suffix time period)

a good jumping off point is that in on the 1st of October 1974, every single registration series in England Wales and Scotland, reset to Gxx-N (as thats when the DVLC computer and local VRO's took over from county councils

so you can just work forward from that, plus when you have studied as many registrations as I have you tend to get a feel for stuff 

and as explained here

On 24/05/2021 at 19:26, LightBulbFun said:

all possible area codes where used up by 1932 which is when the first 3 letter 3 number plates came in to get around the issue  (before that Plates where just 2 letters and 4 digits with the 2 letters being a county council code)

the DVLA simply issue plates/series that where not issued in period as age related plates today 

so for example PHH-P was never issued in period as during the P Suffix period Carlisle was on MHH-P so that left PHH-P to be issued by the DVLA as an age related series  

and this works because the first Serial letter, just went up on its own accord, it never changed because the suffix changed, For example see KOO120N and KWC403P,

note the suffix change but the serial letter just keeps going, until they hit the end of the location markers for that area, (Essex in this case) then they wrap around again but with the next serial letter, so after KJN-P LEV-P was issued and so forth

 

with this info in mind, you can then quite easily spot when even a suffix or prefix car is on an Age related plate 

because you quickly figure out what Serial Letters where issued in period with what Suffix/prefix's  

and then ALL age related plates pop out like sore thumb, not just the suffix-less plates

and the world is never the same again LOL

the serial letter rarely changed between suffix changes, so you can quick quickly get a feel for whats a valid registration mark and what is not a valid mark and/or what might be an a later issued age related mark etc  

 

obviously things can vary a little bit depending on how many registration markers a given area had to how many cars where being registered in said area

so if you had an area which had only a couple location markers for its area but lots of cars being registered there, they would go through the alphabet much quicker then say an area that had lots of location marks allocated to it but relatively few registration marks