Original Dealer Plates -Evans Halshaw Peugeot c.1990

[Guest harry205gti]

Hi all,

 

New to this forum, but have been a member of the facebook page for a little while now so knew this would be the place to come for this particular question! I've found a company willing to make me some nice original looking dealer plates and stickers for my 205, and what I'd really like to provide the company with is an example of what they should look like. I've attached a picture of the original seller's stamp, and the car is a 1990 G reg, I was wondering if anyone had a Halshaw car from this era/any idea what the plates would look like?

 

Many thanks,

Harry

[carlo]

I wanted to do something very similar with plates from a Peugeot dealer in Watford of a similar vintage, couldn't find an example of them anywhere (would have thought it was more obscure than Evans Halshaw though).  Eventually had to trail through ebay looking for an example of a relevant car, then email the seller and get them to photograph the plates for me!  DMG graphics then made me some very nice plates, great service.

[Pillock]

Can't see any pictures, sorry! Perhaps because you're a new user pictures aren't allowed.....

 

My experience of Evans Halshaw was a Ford dealer, and they used to use the Ford colours and typeface on the outside of the dealership. I think this was pretty common to be told what your logos looked like, I've seen a modern Peugeot Evans Halshaw and they seem to use a standard Peugeot typeface too.

 

Try comparing some other 1990s Peugeot plates, you might start to see similarities between them and can just substitute in the dealer name and phone number.

[Guest harry205gti]

Thank you for your replies! Have now attached relevant image properly, as I missed the add to post button before! I think I may well go with standard looking peugeot plates for the era and substitute in the right info for the car! Thanks for taking the time,

Harry

[Pillock]

It does mean you get to be all suspicious-looking taking photos of registration plates you see around....

 

Off the top of my head, my local Peugeot dealer around that time (John Harrison of Nottingham) I think just had the Peugeot lions either end, the dealer name and the phone number - the font will be the tricky bit if you want to be absolutely bob-on.

[Lord Sterling]

The garage in question is still around but its no longer an Evans Halshaw garage, it was a Jeep garage when I first saw it, it then closed down and was abandonned for a while but then opened up as an Acorn group Mitsubishi garage.

 

I take it the company in question is GMB Graphics? Most of us here know them well.

 

Billy_Medhurst on here (formally rootes_arrow1725) often takes pictures of old Dealer stickers/number plates, he might have a picture of an old Evans Halshaw (Halesowen) dealer sticker/numberplate somewhere.

[overrun]

If you can't find anything specific to that garage, Dave at DMB will knock you up something of a template design.

If there's nothing to compare to, then it shouldn't look too odd.

[HMC]

I think DMB already have the templates for a peugeot dealer of the time but its not in the area your after ( Peter Durrant, Fleet I think)

 

I've heard they are good at responding to requests like you've got. My experience was ordering up a set of Dagenham Motors Plates for my old sierra, I was really pleased with them.

[Wilko220]

As Evans Halshaw are still in existence, might be worth writing to their head office to see if they have anything useful in their archives. Long shot perhaps, but you never know...

[Pillock]

Absolutely.... I see DMB are stopping doing Ford ovals in different colours after pressure from Ford Motors, so can maybe assume that the dealer sets are allowed because free advertising. If I worked at Evans Halshaw I'd be all over a request like that.

[Billy - Medhurst]

Heres the style used - from the internet. One is spotted laurels but not the exact garage.

[Guest harry205gti]

Thanks for the great replies, by far the most helpful i've had on any of the forums i've asked on! I am indeed using DMB graphics, responded really quickly to say he'd be happy to help me, seems like a top company. Have noticed that DMB currently have an Evans Halshaw Ford one on their website, as it's the original dealer I suppose there would have been an Evans Halshaw Peugeot and it wouldn't be completely wrong to have a similar design only with Peugeot badges in place of the Ford ones? 

[New POD]

Heres the style used - from the internet. One is spotted laurels but not the exact garage.

Evans Halshaw Shirley. I used to work just down the road at the lucas research centre, and ONLY once used them.

 

I took the Metro Turbo to them with an odd running issue. It was fine with the tank full, but get down to half a tank full, and find a hill that was steeper than 1 in 12 and it would "run out of fuel". If you stopped and let it idle, for a minute, you could get another 300 yrds.

 

They tightened up my inlet manifold bolts, and I refused to pay.