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[unburntfuelinthemorning]

I've just got some nice 1970s number plates with the raised letters from Tippers.  To complement them, what fixings would have been used on British vehicles in the 1970s?  Would it have been those coloured plastic nuts and bolts or did they appear later? 

[gazza82]

Probably just screws or screws with the covers like they sell for mirrors in a diy shop. Clips over the top. Not sure plastic screws and nuts came in until lot later ...

[unburntfuelinthemorning]

Yeah I know the one you mean.  I thought it may have been the other way around though. 

 

Need someone who remembers or has anyone got some old photographs which show it?

[mab01uk]

I was there in the 1970's and converted my first 1965 Mk1 Mini to the new relective plates......we used the white and yellow plastic screws/nuts which came out at the same time, although some used black screws to make certain numbers or letters look different from a distance on their 'dodgy' personal plates.

There may also have been screw on type caps but I don't remember using them and some Dealers just used standard self tapping screws which eventually went rusty over time....

Edited by mab01uk, 25 January 2020 - 11:41 AM.

[mab01uk]

Just remembered there were also the metal self tap screws with a white or yellow plastic washer over which a domed plastic cap clipped on to hide the screw head. Usually destroyed or damaged when you had to lever the plastic cap off at a later date.

[DeadSquare]

In the days when cameras snapped approaching cars, I pivoted my front plate either end, so that at about 30MPH, the forward wind resistance deflected the plate, number downwards.  When stationary, it looked perfectly innocuous.

[Ethel]

Anything goes. I don't recall BL having anything to do with plates, dealers bought in their own supplies.

[sonscar]

For extra realism fit them crooked,Steve..

[gazza82]

For extra realism fit them crooked,Steve..

Like the brand new Audi A6 I followed a couple of days ago ...