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License Plate for TC
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2001 7:15 am
by Mark Stolzenburg
I would like to fit an old English style license plate on the 49 TC that's correct for the time period but I'm not sure what one looks like. Are the raised letters die stamped or are they three dimensional letters that are individually attached? Where can one purchase the correct plate? I received a catalog Triple C Motor Accessories (
www.triple-c.com) that have British style plates. Do they offer the correct style? Thanks, Mark Stolzenburg
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2001 8:30 am
by alan@somex.freeserve.co.uk
Most cars would have been fitted with 21" x 5" black painted
aluminuium plate usually with a 5/16" to 3/8" plain aluminium
border... the digits are 3 1/2" raised plain aluminium (pressed into
the plate)
this plate was most common for cars up to 1964 when 3" character
height took over.
other types such as aluminium or white coloured plastic raised digits
fitted to black painted plates are seen, the plates were usually
supplied and fitted to the car by the supplying dealer not the car
manufacturer, hence the variety of styles
Alan Webster
TA 3239
--- In mg-tabc@y..., "Mark Stolzenburg" wrote:
> I would like to fit an old English style license plate on the 49 TC
that's correct for the time period but I'm not sure what one looks
like. Are the raised letters die stamped or are they three
dimensional letters that are individually attached? Where can one
purchase the correct plate?
> I received a catalog Triple C Motor Accessories (
www.triple-c.com)
that have British style plates. Do they offer the correct style?
> Thanks,
> Mark Stolzenburg
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2001 11:08 am
by Charles Hill
Mark,
There seems to be a wide variety of registration number plates. My TCs
both came with English registration plates. The 46 had one Bluemels
plate with kind of a beveled frame stamped in the plate with separate
cast aluminum numbers. I am fairly sure that this is the original
number for this car - JUM 400. The 49 came with a flat plate with the
numbers stamped in the plate itself. I doubt if this is the original
number as the car is an EXU. The number is QK 7943.
Regards,
Charles Hill
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2001 5:02 am
by Victoria Vernon
Hi out there, I have had my number plate hand painted by a sign-writer, which I believe was the original intention and I remember dimly, from my youth, that most cars here had this. Clem Vernon
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I would like to fit an old English style license plate on the 49 TC that's correct for the time period but I'm not sure what one looks like. Are the raised letters die stamped or are they three dimensional letters that are individually attached? Where can one purchase the correct plate? I received a catalog Triple C Motor Accessories (
www.triple-c.com) that have British style plates. Do they offer the correct style? Thanks, Mark Stolzenburg
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Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 6:09 pm
by David Lodge
Mark,
Everyone seems to put the flat aluminium (that's aluminum to our North American friends!) with raised letters and edging on their T-types, but the factory road-test TC is shown ( MG -The Immortal T Series, page 35) with the raised-peak plastic type. That's what my TC came with in 1963 anyway. Either are a huge improvement on those ghastly euro-plates that seem to be the legislative vogue these days.
Regards
David Lodge
Mark Stolzenburg wrote:
I would like to fit an old English style license plate on the 49 TC that's correct for the time period but I'm not sure what one looks like. Are the raised letters die stamped or are they three dimensional letters that are individually attached? Where can one purchase the correct plate?I received a catalog Triple C Motor Accessories (
www.triple-c.com) that have British style plates. Do they offer the correct style?Thanks,Mark Stolzenburg
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Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 7:28 am
by Badger
".................Everyone seems to put the flat aluminium (that's aluminum to our North American friends!)....................." The existance of this remakable metal was first recognized by a Brit, Sir Humphry Davy, who originally called it "alumium" but shortly changed it to "aluminum" to make it sound more like platinum. Sometime later, others changed it to "aluminium" but arguably, Sir Davy's choice of "aluminum" should stand and be considered internationally correct. Badgerium
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 9:38 am
by C Sherriff
Message text written by "Badger"
> ".................Everyone seems to put the flat aluminium (that's
aluminum to our North American friends!)....................."
The existance of this remakable metal was first recognized by a Brit, Sir
Humphry Davy, who originally called it "alumium" but shortly changed it to
"aluminum" to make it sound more like platinum. Sometime later, others
changed it to "aluminium" but arguably, Sir Davy's choice of "aluminum"
should stand and be considered internationally correct.
Badgerium > ".................Everyone seems to put the flat aluminium (that's
aluminum to our North American friends!)....................."
The existance of this remakable metal was first recognized by a Brit, Sir
Humphry Davy, who originally called it "alumium" but shortly changed it
to "aluminum" to make it sound more like platinum. Sometime later,
others changed it to "aluminium" but arguably, Sir Davy's choice of
"aluminum" should stand and be considered internationally correct.
Badgerium
Davy not only discovered Aluminium ( in its day as expensive as
platinim in fact!) but also Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium,
Strontium and Barium. He also identified Chlorine and discovered
Nitrous Oxide and - named Laughing Gas - which made life more bearable
for patients undergoing operations, and in his spare time invented
the Miners Safety Lamp which saved so many miners from death in
the Coal Pits.
In 1813 he appointed the 22 year old Michael Faraday (later to
become great an even greater Physisist and Chemist) as his assistant.
Its often said that his discovery of Faraday was his greatest discovery
of all!
Regards
Clive
Oxford UK
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2001 3:28 am
by Badger
"......... Strictly and linguistically, being a metal, the endings should
---IUM whether its Alum /in or Platin. Chemists are not very good at
spelling it seems!........................"
> Clive
> Oxford UK
That notwithstanding, the fact still remains that Sir Davy discovered it and
Sir Davy had the honor of naming it - alumiNUM. In any event, the average
TC is constructed primarily of steelium, ironium, and woodium.
Badger, comfortably ensconced in his Badgerium.
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2001 8:33 am
by Andrew Bradley
Ah! But it is left to the reader to decide whether Ol' Badger is a metal,
liguid or gas at standard temperature and pressure!!!!
Cheers...Andy
Re: License Plate for TC
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2001 4:39 pm
by murray arundell
Who really gives a tossium?
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> "......... Strictly and linguistically, being a metal, the endings should
> ---IUM whether its Alum /in or Platin. Chemists are not very good at
> spelling it seems!........................"
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> > Clive
> > Oxford UK
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> That notwithstanding, the fact still remains that Sir Davy discovered it
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> Sir Davy had the honor of naming it - alumiNUM. In any event, the average
> TC is constructed primarily of steelium, ironium, and woodium.
> Badger, comfortably ensconced in his Badgerium.
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