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early car angled number plates - JonE - 06-09-2022
I was trying to look through some early photos but not having much luck.
How much evidence is there for the early angled registration plates and why do we think that they were so? Looking through the Boulogne photos, they seem to be mostly vertical, with some gently curved in a side-to-side plane.
RE: early car angled number plates - stuartu - 06-09-2022
Perhaps to clear the shock absorber links?
Regards,
Stuart
RE: early car angled number plates - JonE - 06-09-2022
weren't the early cars lacking those, tho'?
RE: early car angled number plates - stuartu - 06-09-2022
Lovely big photo here, Jon, thanks to Austin
https://austinharris.co.uk/photo/1923-boulogne-austin-fabric-racers/479
I may be misinterpreting what I can see but those look like shock absorbers to me.
Regards,
Stuart
RE: early car angled number plates - JonE - 06-09-2022
yes indeed. But none of those are actually angled plates as per the ones seen which tilt upward away from the directly vertical plane. (i.e. so a viewer in front of a car could read them full on with a tilted-down head...)
RE: early car angled number plates - stuartu - 06-09-2022
Apologies, Jon, I misunderstood.
Regards,
Stuart
RE: early car angled number plates - Colin Morgan - 06-09-2022
This presumably contemporary view of a 1923 car seems to show the plate tilted from vertical as you suggest?
1923 Seven.jpg (Size: 109.63 KB / Downloads: 326)
RE: early car angled number plates - JonE - 06-09-2022
excellent! Hadn't seen that one, and it definitely has a slant (but not as much as some of the restored cars, would you say?)
Any more of those around?
RE: early car angled number plates - Nick Lettington - 06-09-2022
Jon, did you look through the friends gallery pictures? The photo above is amongst them. When you say early cars, even the 1930 police car has a gently upward facing number plate, but many of the early cars seem more vertical...
RE: early car angled number plates - JonE - 07-09-2022
exactly. Which batch is the police car in out of interest, Nick? I do forget about those images, and they aren't easy to flick through for an eZ gallery!