Period Car Dealer Details

[vulgalour]

We need a period car dealer stickers thread on here.

 

Agreed!  I only have one car with a dealer sticker and sadly it's crumbling away and cannot be saved.  Luckily, a reasonable photograph was taken of it so a reproduction could be created.

 

 

The Corsa doesn't have a dealer sticker, rather a variation on the theme being a silver gel-bubble sticker.  I kept the broken front dealer plate just in case but the dealer tax disc holder was utterly ruined and disposed of.

 

The Rover still sports its original Trinity dealer rear plate.  I'll get a better picture of it at some point.  I'm in two minds about getting it recreated as there's no other dealer items on the car and it's not terribly original any more.

[EssDeeWon]

My 75 still has the original ROVER MG MINI dealer plates from Palmsville, North London.

 

However whats better was my 1979 SD1 had both original 'Mann Egerton' plates, rear window sticker, tax disc holder and leather key ring. The rear window sticker was proper baked.

[D Spares & Tyres]

My new 1993 Xantia still has both original plates, dealer sticker and tax disc holder

 

Missing the original wheels though.....

[warren t claim]

Dealer stickers were better when the businesses were family run not the boring corporate empires they are today.

[warren t claim]

Anyone got a circular Kirbys of Wrexham sticker I could copy?

[carlo]

Used to work at Hortons of Watford many moons ago.  Have since found a black plastic badge and had some plates made up, just need to find a rear window sticker like so:

 

 

By the way took me about five minutes to log on and upload that pic to Photobucket.  What a liability that site has become.

[UltraWomble]

BX Reg Plate by Marty Hopkirk, on Flickr

AX Reg Plate by Marty Hopkirk, on Flickr

 

Sadly those are all I can find when hunting through my HDD

[Billy - Medhurst]

1972 AUSTIN 1300 GT 1275cc XDH154L by JOHN, on Flickr

DECEMBER 1975 TRIUMPH 1296cc TOLEDO JDR578P by JOHN, on Flickr

AUGUST 1974 BMW 3000 CSI 2985cc GRN864N by JOHN, on Flickr

FEBRUARY 1989 RENAULT 5 MONACO 1721cc F130PPE by JOHN, on Flickr

MARSHALL DEALERS STICKER - CIRCA 1989 by JOHN, on Flickr

1981 AUSTIN 1275cc ALLEGRO HL JVP386W by JOHN, on Flickr

[plasticvandan]

Doesn't get much more period than that!

[Vin]

Here's one for a start. Rear window of a deceased Fiat 900T camper...

 

 

 

 

[Vin]

Another...

 

Back window of the 126...Burton's of Grimsby...

 

 

 

[overrun]

I like a quality dealer plate on a nice, old car.

I had DMB make me up a pair of plates, sticker and tax disc holder for my old RS1600i . They were great.

 

This is a downside to owning JDM stuff.

The MR2 is wearing the plates from the dealer that imported it, but they are crap. Much like the pic.

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

my late fathers mk5 still has the full set plts,tax holder,wallet,key ring,sticker & the universal "ford gives you more" sticker unfortunately the last two are crumbling away.

 

anyone got a" brook shaw ford Sheffield &" ford gives you more" stickers?

[overrun]

^ DMB Graphics...

[sheffcortinacentre]

cheers will have a look.

[overrun]

cheers will have a look.

If they haven't got it on file, just send them a pic, and they will recreate it.

My Escort was supplied by UBM (think that's it) and they are as good as non-existant, stickerwise.

But Dave at DBM done a top job, when I eventually found one to copy.

 

Very reasonable prices, too!

[coalnotdole]

Doesn't get much more period than that!

 

Really? I raise you...

 

 

Shit quality photo mind.

[sierraman]

This is something you don't see these days. I wonder if they sell Audi A4's with 'Another jumped up twat bought this on a 8 year finance agreement' or 'Another Audi funded through Blackhorse Finance'

[Essex V6]

1972 AUSTIN 1300 GT 1275cc XDH154L by JOHN, on FlickrDECEMBER 1975 TRIUMPH 1296cc TOLEDO JDR578P by JOHN, on FlickrAUGUST 1974 BMW 3000 CSI 2985cc GRN864N by JOHN, on FlickrFEBRUARY 1989 RENAULT 5 MONACO 1721cc F130PPE by JOHN, on FlickrMARSHALL DEALERS STICKER - CIRCA 1989 by JOHN, on Flickr1981 AUSTIN 1275cc ALLEGRO HL JVP386W by JOHN, on Flickr

Billy - any moar pictures of your 1300 GT?

[plasticvandan]

Really? I raise you...

 

 

Shit quality photo mind.

It was more the phrase "THE THREEWHEELER CENTRE" that made it for me,a reminder of when britain was poor and people had no money,you could go down to your local three wheeler centre and chop in your BSA for a Regal van or if you were really desperate,a worn out Bond Minicar

[oldcars]

Here's mine on the Reliant.

[Angrydicky]

 

 

[mrcitroen]

The sticker on my GS

 

 

Looks not bad from outside, but is v flaky and crumbly inside. I'll get on to that DMB mob and see if they can make me up a new one. The car still has the rear dealer plate. I'm not sure if it is period though as it is an acrylic type. I would like a set of the plastic raised digit ones like Tippers do.

[J-Rod]

 

Over the hills and far away... 

[martc]

1972 AUSTIN 1300 GT 1275cc XDH154L by JOHN, on Flickr

 

What the hell have you done to Sue?

[J-Rod]

This is something you don't see these days. I wonder if they sell Audi A4's with 'Another jumped up twat bought this on a 8 year finance agreement' or 'Another Audi funded through Blackhorse Finance'

Well, you do... "I. Saú U'Cummings Garages - Marlow" (Probably) 

[coalnotdole]

I was doing some work on the straight 6 Coupé today and remembered it had some quality origonal dealer plates on the door sills, There is a plate on each side:

 

 

Inspired by this thread I've just looked them up and it appears that vincents were a pretty big name in Luxury cars / coaches.  in the 60's they seemed to specalise in selling high end cars, having ceased coachbuilding int the 50's. Strange to think when my Scimitar was new in 1965 it might have sat next to a Rolls-Royce in the dealership!

 

The showroom can be seen here on the left:

 

 

 

By 1928 Vincent’s opened the largest most modern showrooms and works the Motor Trade had seen in this country, the Station Square building right outside of the two main line railway stations the Great Western and the London and South Western Railway. (Southern Railway Station)
The Showroom workshops and coachworks had been brought together under one roof with covered car parking for 350 cars. The three floors of the building were linked by a then unique system of ramps designed by Harry and William Vincent. Photograph’s show this from the booklet The House of VINCENT by John Owen.

In the front of the showroom were two turntables recessed in the floor to display cars to their best light. In the years after the war I remember A large Art Deco style clock suspended in the center of the show room from the roof some forty feet above, around the perimeter was a set of circular glass discs with weather directions marked, as you looked at the time you could watch the direction of the wind outside as they lit up as the weather vane changed direction. At the sides towards the back of the showroom were offices both sides for Management and Staff. In the management office was kept a wall chart recording all new car sales which was renewed by the drawing office each year and a new one was designed. I recall that every year during the 1960’s over 2000 new cars were sold. That was not counting the exchanged cars.
Included in the parking facilities were forty private lock-ups, with a waiting room and toilets for owners and a separate one for chauffeurs, also a dressing room. There was a lift connecting each floor.

 

Theres a really good thread about the history of the company here: https://www.reading-forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=276#p25306

[r.welfare]

My grandfather worked for Vincents building horseboxes (he's mentioned on page 3 of the thread you linked actually). He also got roped into building Spitfire fuselages during WWII. The 70s tower that replaced the Vincents building is currently being refurbed.

[Bobthebeard]

Here's mine on the Reliant.

Reliant monsters evolving from damp carpet and fibreglass!

[anonymous user]