Old Plates (again) - London 1949

[Ash]

These images came along with the Ernemann Klapp.

[Ash]

Above, close-ups. The car is a 1949 London registration I think??

[edp]

November 49 to March 51, I think (http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/xx.htm). Were you expecting these plates with the camera, or were they a nice surprise when you opened the package?

[Ash]

I was expecting a box of fogged old plates, because I could see them in the auction pic. It was a nice surprise to find negatives already developed and carefully stored.

[Mark Sampson]

The 'flying A' hood ornament means the car is an Austin- what model I couldn't say.

[Steven Tribe]

Well the car is an Austin (Hereford, Somerset or something like that). My mother's cousin, chief surgeon at the Royal Wolverhampton, had one like that around 1950.
It doesn't have a good survival rate but was still difficult to get hold of any new car 5 years after the war. Pity the street sign isn't complete.

[Ash]

Maybe it's an Austin 16? Close - http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/austin-16.htm ?

[edp]

It's an A40 Devon.

http://psimmonds.org.uk/DevonDorsetBook.htm

[Ash]

Thanks edp.

There's a "ELD" under the Gardens part of the name. So I guess it's something-field as a the borough.

[Ari]

Wow, I didn't realize Google Earth sent mappers out as early as 1949.