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Location: New Forest
Car type: 1928 Mulliner Fabric Saloon
I looked through all my (contemporary) photos across all pre '30 saloons and found 3 more with with similar brackets to JonE's post. What it shows is that cars vary massively in this respect and it is difficult to tell what is original. Many are the style as per Howards photo.
I would say that Chris is probably spot on as far as there not necessarily being a set pattern across a whole production run. Looking at photos of chummies and saloons on Austin Harris' site seems to confirm.
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Location: Melton Mowbray.
Happy to accept your comment, Zeto. I was under the impression that the garage supplied the plate which would open up the possibilities of several designs of number plate being available. Am I right? The " ~ " 'twixt the numerals and letters suggest the plate is closer to period than recent. Another of life's big mysteries!!
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Brilliant reply’s, thank you all !
I will make up a bar to match what is seen as original !
Any photos of how it attaches and mounting points most appreciated .
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Wonderful that shows it all very well , thank you very much Howard .
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I wonder if they changed it late RK run (the one I posted was May 1930); perhaps the simpler one is more prone to rusting where it passes the edge of the numberplate. This is certainly more elegant but uses more metal!
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This is from a very early RN Saloon Jon and appears to use exactly the same amount of metal, just curved.
