Serck plates

[FredTransit]

could be spelling it wrong. Where do you get em from?

[overrun]

I got a set a couple of years ago from somewhere like a1showplates and selected 'Eurostyle font'.

That appears to be the closest you can get.

 

I think Mystery Machine on RR got some last year or something. Same place.

 

EDIT - Here's mine

 

[HMC]

I picked up a set off e bay in february. If you search " pre 2001 number plates " they still come up. cheap and the best I've found.

 

In all their pressed aluminium glory

[overrun]

I picked up a set off e bay in february. If you search " pre 2001 number plates " they still come up. cheap and the best I've found.

 

Nice. I have tried and failed to find them on eBay. Found a couple of places claiming to do them or about to start and then disappearing.

[FredTransit]

searched the bay but only found charles wright. Will have a look for Euro font.

[Squire_Dawson]

Check classic car mag classifieds, there's often a couple of firms advertising.

[Junkman]

When were those pressed alumimium ones in use?

Would they be period correct for my 1987 Mitsubishi?

[Skoze]

searched the bay but only found charles wright. Will have a look for Euro font.

 

Likewise, is there a link to the ones fitted tot he above chod? 

 

Edit: these are worth a look;

 

http://www.pl8s.co.uk/ReflectiveDuoPlate.html

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

When were those pressed alumimium ones in use?

Would they be period correct for my 1987 Mitsubishi?

The pressed aluminium Serck plates seemed (to me at the time) to be fairly common on W,X,Y and A reg cars - particularly Fords. There were loads of Y and A reg ones. They seemed to die out really quickly though and I don't remember seeing so many B reg or later.

 

As far as I remember, pretty much all cars after 1985 used the plastic reflective plates - though there seemed to be more than one font available. My car has really rounded numbers on it, for example. I imagine the pressed aluminium ones would have been available in 1987 though.

[Wilko220]

Framptons?

 

www.pl8s.co.uk

[Stixy]

http://www.a1showplates.com/creator.html?gclid=COWrxfHr6r0CFTMetAodW3UA7A

 

 

The eurostyle  is just like the sereck font 

[FredTransit]

Beryls a B reg! So's Bertha. Both on Sercks. I seem to remember Framptons being twice as much as ebay

[Mr_Bo11ox]

http://www.a1showplates.com/creator.html?gclid=COWrxfHr6r0CFTMetAodW3UA7A

 

 

The eurostyle  is just like the sereck font

 

these are not bad, but they must be plastic for £20 right? Sercks have got to be pressed! The eBay ones are the closest I've found but they are still recognisably not a Serck.

[overrun]

these are not bad, but they must be plastic for £20 right? Sercks have got to be pressed! The eBay ones are the closest I've found but they are still recognisably not a Serck.

 

See my first post for the answer!

 

Proper Serck were sometimes placka, too. The pressed ones were something to do with Unipart and - around here at least - were pretty much exclusively used by BT.

[Stixy]

Ive got Serck Plastics on a G reg  Sierra 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

G reg - so they were available for a long time.

 

I remember the plastic Serck plates, but the Serck font always seemed more noticable somehow on the pressed plates.

 

In my part of the country a lot of Ford lease cars seemed to come with pressed Serck plates - lots of company cars had them.

[Stixy]

The font on the new plates looks the same  but  i cant tell from the pics if its smaller ?

 

Here are the plastics ive had 

 

[Wilko220]

As others have suggested, these "Eurostyle" plates are definitely not Sercks - but they are a classic shite number plate style in their own right.

Around here, they were used by a lot of the Ford garages up until the early 90s - but I don't remember seeing them on other models very often.

[Pillock]

A lot of manufacturers had their own slightly different fonts. I remember some Ford garages using the semi-Sercks too... Rover often had their own typeface with a very round O and VAG in the early 90s were different again, very rounded letters like C and G. Hard to describe but makes it very easy to spot an original plate.

[CortinaDave]

Serck actually made up the plates for Laidlaw Ford in Kirkcaldy.

 

I ordered some euro style plates for my SD1 a couple of years ago and they looked bob on.

[fordperv]

I saw an f reg mk2 fiesta today with placcy serck plates on

[Stixy]

My old mk2 had them too

 

 

Kac 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

A lot of manufacturers had their own slightly different fonts. I remember some Ford garages using the semi-Sercks too... Rover often had their own typeface with a very round O and VAG in the early 90s were different again, very rounded letters like C and G. Hard to describe but makes it very easy to spot an original plate.

 

My Jag has this type of plate with very rounded characters. The dealer also sold Austin Rover, so maybe that is the connection.

 

Original Jaguar dealer plates are slightly larger at the rear too - later plates are often slightly too small.

[Ghosty]

I've often wondered about the plates with the very rounded characters - isn't the font the same as the Jersey one?

[tooSavvy]

My Skoda, brand new, had placcy... I went down to the SERCK, by the Fed brewery, and paid reel munnie for pressed ally.

 

I love em - always reminds me of old Ford lorries (bent/straightened at least 5 times, under the tipper back. lol)

 

 

TS

[laser wheels]

I've been considering alloy plates for the Sierra but though it would not be period correct, being that mine originally came with plastic plates. For some reason I have  picture of ally plates being right for the early '80s - very vague childhood memories - and it's nice to know I'm not wrong.

[Stixy]

I took the plunge and ordered a  "euro style" show  plate 

 

the font is perfect  but its smaller