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1958 Standard Pennant 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-05-07 20:07 |
LMS 30 = 1958 plate, Stirlingshire. Or it was an LMS (London Midland & Scottish) railway vehicle - LMS operated the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to Sheffield as one of its principal routes, with Leicester as a main station. |
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◊ 2015-05-07 21:38 |
The LMS disappeared into British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. It was henceforward known as the London Midland Region of the new company, the vehicles both before and after nationalisation were registered in Hertfordshire as the motor vehicle headquarters was at Watford. Complete series were allocated to the company, Mr Newell quotes a list of the series as allocated and this practise commenced with ANK 1-999 starting in 1935. The complement of road motors at my local station included Karrier Gamecock SUR 162, but the allocation of complete series must have ceased by then. There was also a prewar Leyland Cub, but my memory has developed a glitch in that location. -- Last edit: 2015-05-07 21:47:06 |
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◊ 2015-05-07 22:00 |
Now I've got a better copy of this film to play with, and so that more plates are legible, it feels unusual for stuff of this type/period for having a high number of non-local plates - some of which are fairly distant from Leicester. I guess in those pre-motorway/bypass days it's because Leicester was on the A6 trunk route London to Carlisle?? So a Stirlingshire plate isn't too amazing?? |
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◊ 2015-05-07 22:19 |
New cars were becoming more easily obtainable by this time, but my mates and I used to look for none local numbers on local cars and consider it proof of second hand purchase from the sort of dealer who had a bomb site car patch. We also invented a disease called "rep's front number plate", where the car in question had obviously suffered from flying gravel and road salt rendering its plate semi legible. Ex Heinz cars always suffered from this. |
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