10-01-2018, 10:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2018, 12:30 PM by Jeff Taylor.)
Hi Oliver,
I'm assuming it's UD 3372 rather than 3722 - the numberplate's not particularly clear in the photo though on my 37" monitor it certainly looks to be UD 3372 - just checked, the registration UD 3722 would have been issued by Oxfordshire around the middle months of 1930 whereas UD 3372 would have been issued in late 1929. The chassis number shown on the A7CA Chassis Register for UD 3372 would suggest a build date of very late September / first days of October 1929.
If it is UD 3372 then it's on the A7CA Chassis Register as a 25th October 1929 registered AE Tourer colour blue said to be in the ownership of a member of the Pre War Austin 7 Club - though this information would appear to date from 2009 so may no longer be the case.
The DVLA database has it as 'Not taxed for on road use' in a green box - this shows that the car has not been taxed / on the road since at least the introduction of SORN on 31st January 1989. It may of course have been off the road for considerably longer - back in around 1983 when the then DVLC introduced their computer database, adverts were placed in all the vintage / classic car magazines asking owners of cars that were currently off the road and not taxed to send their old log books to Swansea to be exchanged for a new V5 and have their vehicle details included on the new computer database - the implication at the time from the DVLC was that if you failed to do so you'd loose any future right to have the original registration number reinstated on your vehicle - therefore many owners of 'off the road' vehicles undergoing restoration or long term storage including myself did just that. At the time I owned and still do a totally dismantled 1936 Morris 8 Tourer which hasn't been on the road since the late 1970's and similarly it's on the DVLA database as 'Not taxed for on road use' in a green box simply because I took the trouble to send the old log book to Swansea as requested back in 1983.
I'm assuming it's UD 3372 rather than 3722 - the numberplate's not particularly clear in the photo though on my 37" monitor it certainly looks to be UD 3372 - just checked, the registration UD 3722 would have been issued by Oxfordshire around the middle months of 1930 whereas UD 3372 would have been issued in late 1929. The chassis number shown on the A7CA Chassis Register for UD 3372 would suggest a build date of very late September / first days of October 1929.
If it is UD 3372 then it's on the A7CA Chassis Register as a 25th October 1929 registered AE Tourer colour blue said to be in the ownership of a member of the Pre War Austin 7 Club - though this information would appear to date from 2009 so may no longer be the case.
The DVLA database has it as 'Not taxed for on road use' in a green box - this shows that the car has not been taxed / on the road since at least the introduction of SORN on 31st January 1989. It may of course have been off the road for considerably longer - back in around 1983 when the then DVLC introduced their computer database, adverts were placed in all the vintage / classic car magazines asking owners of cars that were currently off the road and not taxed to send their old log books to Swansea to be exchanged for a new V5 and have their vehicle details included on the new computer database - the implication at the time from the DVLC was that if you failed to do so you'd loose any future right to have the original registration number reinstated on your vehicle - therefore many owners of 'off the road' vehicles undergoing restoration or long term storage including myself did just that. At the time I owned and still do a totally dismantled 1936 Morris 8 Tourer which hasn't been on the road since the late 1970's and similarly it's on the DVLA database as 'Not taxed for on road use' in a green box simply because I took the trouble to send the old log book to Swansea as requested back in 1983.