I have a 1965 Jaguar S type - what type of number plate would have beenfitted to it originally?Would it have had pressed aluminium or would a higher end car of that eramore likely had riveted letters, silver or white on black?I always associated pressed aluminium with cheap cars and commercialvehicles.Whilst I'm on the subject I always think black number plates look veryodd on cars of the late sixties and early 70s.Most bikes and cars post '68 had yellow and white. Certainly the ones Ihad did (they weren't new when I got them!) - which makes the black lookout of place, more so on '70-'72Contemporary film clips show the newer cars with reflective plates:Villain (great film) if it doesn't answer the number plate question it shows the bad guyshad S types!

When the pressed type first arrived, they were the expensive option. Ifyou think about it they require specialist equipment to make up unlike theriveted on type. So to me they still look more classy. Of course the equipment prices probably came down and labour rates wentup so it's possible the pressed type became cheaper eventually.

Someone will no doubt disagree with that, Dave!!!!!

Number Plates - which type?

Oct 23, 2009 27 Replies

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sweller 16 years ago

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Peter A Forbes 16 years ago

*plonk* Peter

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Charles Hamilton 16 years ago

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Dave Plowman (News) 16 years ago

Sounds like that door bell needs a battery.

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Dean Dark 16 years ago

Check the ground connection on the old battery first though. It can cause many of the same symptoms as a bad battery.

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Charles Hamilton 16 years ago

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Richard H Huelin 16 years ago

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It seems that someone put the battery in upside down ;-)

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Grimly Curmudgeon 16 years ago

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "sweller" saying something like:

Most definitely separate whit characters on a black plate for '65. Pressed plates were cheap s*it and only found on chavvy cars.

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