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2 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

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The Michigan Madman or more normally, E.J Potter. Legend

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On 15/11/2024 at 16:52, martc said:

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Crikey, I never realised they made that many

Posted
1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

Crikey, I never realised they made that many

Mmmm....

According to t'interweb 1,840,396 Amis (6 and 8 ) were made. I wonder if it's the 4,000,000 car made in that factory, rather than the 4,000,000 Ami?

Posted
20 minutes ago, martc said:

Mmmm....

According to t'interweb 1,840,396 Amis (6 and 8 ) were made. I wonder if it's the 4,000,000 car made in that factory, rather than the 4,000,000 Ami?

 

 Yes It's the 4millionth Citroen , in March 30 1965 at Rennes-La-Janais, which happens to be an Ami 6.

Posted
4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

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That's a Peeblesshire reg. Last normal issue DS 6396 in 1964. Everything higher is DVLA age related issue.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Blunderguts said:

That's a Peeblesshire reg. Last normal issue DS 6396 in 1964. Everything higher is DVLA age related issue.

Can you run that by me again because that bike is much older than 1964 but you say it has a DVLA age related plate. It looks like its got an old style tax disc.

Posted
26 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Can you run that by me again because that bike is much older than 1964 but you say it has a DVLA age related plate. It looks like its got an old style tax disc.

I suspect that is fairly modern picture made to look older than it is. The lamp on the fence in the background doesn't seem right for the first world war era...

Posted
6 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

I suspect that is fairly modern picture made to look older than it is. The lamp on the fence in the background doesn't seem right for the first world war era...

Agreed both people in that photo look rather older than the average age of people in those respective positions. Re enactors are usually much taller and larger in the frame than most people in the period. We acquired a genuine British Army uniform for a photograph we took after we excavated some practice trenches in North Wales, and it was tiny, although our old director was small enough to fit into it.

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3 minutes ago, warch said:

Agreed both people in that photo look rather older than the average age of people in those respective positions.

Here they are again, deffo a modern photo.th?id=OIP.locZv7NrDg43S9aycC6C1QHaFc&w=236&c=11&rs=1&qlt=90&bgcl=ececec&o=6&pid=PersonalBing&p=0

 

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12 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

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This is bugging me, I thought it was Ashbourne, it looks similar but the road at Ashbourne bends to the right and there is a road junction on the left.  The memorial is different at Ashbourne too.  Anyone know where this is?

Posted
7 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Can you run that by me again because that bike is much older than 1964 but you say it has a DVLA age related plate. It looks like its got an old style tax disc.

DS9276 is an age related number issued in November 1991 to a 1914 Enfield motorbike, not all of the small Scottish places used up their original 1904 allocated 2 digit 4 number registration mark series by the time suffix plates where made mandatory on the 1st of Jan 1965

so the DVLC then DVLA used the rest of the unused marks as age related plates for vehicles built before 1931, (if you are registering a barn find where the original registration mark was unknown or a fresh import from another country or robbing the original registration mark off a vehicle, the DVLA will try and give you a registration mark who's style matches the age of the vehicle as if it was originally registered here in the UK when new)

so I agree that that photo is much newer then it seems at first blush, me being a DVLA sad bastard who has most of the pre 1963 age related series memorised, the registration immediately stood out like a sore thumb to me :) 

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11 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Can you run that by me again because that bike is much older than 1964 but you say it has a DVLA age related plate. It looks like its got an old style tax disc.

A number of the old two letter registration sequences weren't completed. Another example is Orkney. Last normal issue was BS 7777 in 1964. With so many old vehicles turning up with zero paperwork (or imported/plateraped) unused registration numbers, as LightBulbFun says, get issued. The common vintage era age related marks you'll see are BS, DS, SV and BF. Occasionally void numbers (vehicle declared scrapped) were reused back in the day.

What also happened, most notably after WW2, was a great many vehicles got reregistered. I suspect much of this was because their paperwork had been destroyed. Trouble was so had some registration records held by local authorities so logbooks couldn't be issued.

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