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[HMC]

Heres one in action in Make Mine Mink  (1960)

They were often in late 50s/ early 60s B-movies

[Knotty Ash Towers]

1 hour ago, Largactil said:

Is it 'PLG' for the tax class, then 'Wolseley' followed by the cc (2663) then the colour? ('Black')

Yes, although it looks more like 'PLC' than 'PLG'.

Handwriting a GP would be proud of...

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Heres one in action in Make Mine Mink  (1960)

They were often in late 50s/ early 60s B-movies

That's a blast from the past!

[LightBulbFun]

3 hours ago, Largactil said:

Is it 'PLG' for the tax class, then 'Wolseley' followed by the cc (2663) then the colour? ('Black')

it wont be "PLG" back then, the whole PLG taxation class was introduced sometime during early DVLC years, light goods vehicles used to be in their own taxation class/system, hence the whole thing of buy a small van and stick seats/windows in it, they then lumped small goods vehicle into the private taxation class to put a kibosh to that hence ending up with the whole "PLG" taxation class

(so if you look at an early V5 you will see for a regular motor car it just says "PRIVATE" for taxation class)

[Lord Sterling]

5 hours ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

J Blake & co. who would have been the supplying dealer. I can't decipher any of the other entries though...

I'm guessing then, from here?

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/J._Blake_and_Co

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, Lord Sterling said:

I'm guessing then, from here?

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/J._Blake_and_Co

Too many fonts tho...

[Lord Sterling]

Just now, High Jetter said:

Too many fonts tho...

This one below would possibly be the correct one seeing as it was often there same era and has a Chester address:

[Vantman]

Lots of 6/90s in the 1963 film 'Wrong Arm of the Law'

[HMC]

15 hours ago, Peter C said:

@HMC 

Any chance of some interior shots, I would love to smell the wood and leather.

Grabbed a couple earlier whilst tinkering again with the ignition timing

 

[Peter C]

Interior porn.

Thank you.

[BL Bloke]

17 hours ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

Yes, although it looks more like 'PLC' than 'PLG'.

Handwriting a GP would be proud of...

I was thinking that it could be P/C for Private Car considering that other entries in that column are 'Cycle', 'Bicycle' and 'Goods'

It looks lovely despite the leaks and the interior looks very nice. Does the badge still light up?

[tooSavvy]

Carry On Constable..... Now @GreatTV

Vroom, vroom...

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[HMC]

I Was feeling a b movie vibe earlier…

 

Victim (1961)

 

the monster of highgate ponds  (1961)

 

Going to tesco (2025)

[Peter C]

9 hours ago, HMC said:

 

 

 

 

Going to tesco (2025)

Who got to play you?

[N Dentressangle]

43 minutes ago, Peter C said:

Who got to play you?

Has to be Stratford Johns

[Peter C]

1 hour ago, N Dentressangle said:

Has to be Stratford Johns

He died 23 years ago.

[goosey]

Day of the Triffids 1963

[N Dentressangle]

57 minutes ago, Peter C said:

He died 23 years ago.

AI was just made to bring him to the mean streets of Tavistock behind the wheel of a Wolseley

[tooSavvy]

10 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

AI was just made to bring him to the mean streets of Tavistock behind the wheel of a Wolseley

Watched the last 'Endeavour' the other night...

Endeavour drives past a Jag >> looks in rv mirror

Morse drives past, other way, in Jag >> looks in rv mirror.

*given Thaw was dead by then....

Miracles of Tinseltown 😉

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[HMC]

Anyone need a cheap diesel MPV ex-royal?

this one maybe (?)

#1956 classifieds

[Hertz]

Who the hell was King Zog?

 

Edit - Looked like a cross between Peter Sellers and Hitler.

Re-edit - Looks like a really interesting human being! Smoked up to 200 fags a day!!!

[N Dentressangle]

If I were to buy a car previously owned by any royal, it would be King Zog.

You just know he'd have never had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.

[AnthonyG]

6 hours ago, HMC said:

#1956 classifieds

Love the phrase ‘well shod’ for the 1925 Fiat being sold by the Hispano Suiza dealer. I wonder how long tires lasted back then, I expect most were expected to do a good decade or so.

Wonder when the proprietor of ‘Clarendon Motors’ stopped attending the Appleby Horse Fair? 

[Yoss]

11 hours ago, HMC said:

Anyone need a cheap diesel MPV ex-royal?

this one maybe (?)

#1956 classifieds

Not just any diesel either, but an AEC. The best diesel out there. So it would have sounded like an old bus. Brilliant. 

[AnthonyG]

‘Regal style and economy have never gone hand in hand like this before’

Even sales bullshit was somehow more elegant in 1956. 

[HMC]

3 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

‘Regal style and economy have never gone hand in hand like this before’

Even sales bullshit was somehow more elegant in 1956. 

Also ylu can either drive to a farm in berkshire (address supplied) or write to a guy in Ireland about it. Sort of weeds out the timewasters/ my kid bidded on it/ etc

[artdjones]

The "sound" Hispano with Chapron body for £55 looks better value. Or the Aston for £105.

[AnthonyG]

The exotic two door Hispano sounds amazing, and £55 sounds very reasonable, given that’s normally tired Ford Popular territory.

It’s a non runner as well, so no excuses for not slotting in that ex War Department Austin lorry four pot you picked up cheap ‘just in case’. 

[horriblemercedes]

11 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

If I were to buy a car previously owned by any royal, it would be King Zog.

You just know he'd have never had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.

He never even really had anything to do with any other royals - as a self-proclaimed one who basically just presided over a military dictatorship, they mostly felt he was illegitimate 

[AnthonyG]

I remember reading about the 1936 Tirana World’s Fair as a kid, sadly looking on Wikipedia this was obviously satirical as it never happened ☹️! 

Shame, would have been King Zog’s finest hour…