Is This Your Motor?

[Radiorails]

Please excuse my ignorance but what is a PTIN? I'm not very good with acronyms.

Pain in the neck. There is a less polite version probably better known maybe? But this is generally accepted as a family read thread.

 

[mw0njm.]

Pain in the neck. There is a less polite version probably better known maybe? But this is generally accepted as a family read thread.

PITB

 

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Bristol Street traffic in 1954 :

 

[mw0njm.]

Bristol Street traffic in 1954 :

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any idear what the shop on the right sells?

 

[Bob Davis]

Bristol Street traffic in 1954 :

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Two interesting things, 1 - the mix of cars, 2 - In the middle of Birmingham, three cars and yet only one Birmingham registration, MOH which was issued in May 1952. Has anyone any idea what make of car BXP 887 is?
Bob

 

[Eric Gibson]

Not yet, I'll have to give it some thought, the others are a Vauxhall Wyvern a Triumph Mayflower and a Standard 8 or 10

 

[RobT]

any idea what the shop on the right sells?

It is actually written on the store front (well house furnis is) but not easily read.
Dennis's House Furnishers
71 Bristol Street

I think it was Clarke's Caravans next door.

 

[Bob Davis]

Not yet, I'll have to give it some thought, the others are a Vauxhall Wyvern a Triumph Mayflower and a Standard 8 or 10

Standard Flying 9?

Bob

 

[Eric Gibson]

They did a Flying 8 and 9 around that time Bob, only difference was the size of the engine iirc.

 

[Bob Davis]

They did a Flying 8 and 9 around that time Bob, only difference was the size of the engine iirc.

Yes I forgot about the eight, but for some reason always remembered the 9, I think some of the eights were convertibles, unfortunately this Reg No has no traces on Google, as someties you can find an old car's history.
Bob

 

[Curly]

Two interesting things, 1 - the mix of cars, 2 - In the middle of Birmingham, three cars and yet only one Birmingham registration, MOH which was issued in May 1952. Has anyone any idea what make of car BXP 887 is?
Bob

I believe it to be a 1930s Talbot 10 Drophead Coupe

 

[Bob Davis]

I believe it to be a 1930s Talbot 10 Drophead Coupe

That would be worth a few pennies now.
Bob

 

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To avoid getting into trouble [again] for posting car pics on here, can anybody identify the street metal on this page :

History and Information on Ryland Street at Ladywood Birmingham

History and Information on Ryland Street at Ladywood in Birmingham in Warwickshire

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I will be putting a bit of text to my pics and it would be good to have them identified correctly. I think the first one is a Vauxhall, the second maybe an Austin, not sure about the van, then there is a Morris Minor but with an interesting station wagon parked behind - an unusual vehicle I would have thought. The there is a Ford Anglia.

 

[Bob Davis]

To avoid getting into trouble [again] for posting car pics on here, can anybody identify the street metal on this page :

History and Information on Ryland Street at Ladywood Birmingham

History and Information on Ryland Street at Ladywood in Birmingham in Warwickshire

www.midlandspubs.co.uk

I will be putting a bit of text to my pics and it would be good to have them identified correctly. I think the first one is a Vauxhall, the second maybe an Austin, not sure about the van, then there is a Morris Minor but with an interesting station wagon parked behind - an unusual vehicle I would have thought. The there is a Ford Anglia.

The van is a Standard Ensign.

Bob

 

[Curly]

1961 Vauxhall Victor FA, Morris Oxford MO series, Standard 6/8/10 Van, Morris Minor (the Estate? unsure, poss Minx III. will return!) Ford Anglia & Austin A55

 

[Edifi]

Bob,might be wrong but thought the Ensign was bigger .

 

[Edifi]

Is the one behind the Minor a Hillman minx estate

 

[Curly]

Bob,might be wrong but thought the Ensign was bigger .

The Ensign was a car model, preceded by the Vanguard.

 

[Bob Davis]

Bob,might be wrong but thought the Ensign was bigger .

You are right the Ensign was the follow up to the Vanguard, the smaller Standard was the Pennant, thanks for the nudge. I thought the mystery estate was a Minx, certainly it has Minx lower body lines, perhaps it was a one off Minx van conversion, because it has a VP registration which I believe (and again I could be wrong) were usually reserved for commercial vehicles.
Bob

 

[Eric Gibson]

Is the one behind the Minor a Hillman minx estate

Humber Hawk Estate.

 

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Thanks Guys, I knew you would come up trumps again.

 

[Eric Gibson]

I think the Morris is the Oxford MO's big brother the Morris MS six

 

[Edifi]

Eric was going to say that but thought it was smaller

 

[oldbrit]

Any Idea what this motor is?

 

[Radiorails]

A Morris 8, I believe, Worcestershire registration and worth up to £8000 today if in good order.

 

[oldbrit]

A Morris 8, I believe, Worcestershire registration and worth up to £8000 today if in good order.

The shy looking nipper IS ME so it must have been an early 1930s I was born in 1933 That is my Grandad standing, my Dad Uncle Tom and Grandma, I still have the AA badge, Dad gave it me years ago. He switched to Rovers later on

 

[Curly]

A mid 30s Morris 10/4 or similar

 

[Curly]

Humber Hawk Estate.

I thought so too, originally, it could be a mid 50s Hawk or Snipe
You tube video (follows still photo)

 

[Radiorails]

The shy looking nipper IS ME so it must have been an early 1930s I was born in 1933 That is my Grandad standing, my Dad Uncle Tom and Grandma, I still have the AA badge, Dad gave it me years ago. He switched to Rovers later on

Wise choice, Rover. I don't believe I ever had a Morris and I have had many marques over the years.

 

[nickcc101]

Two of the cars outside Ryland were a Ford V8 pilot and a citroen, ford owned by the Foreman George Reedman and the Citroen by the chargehand Brian Crawford.