Anthony Crook Brass Plate

[GeorgeG]

Hi, Clemens. Greetings to you too, from Hertfordshire, England.

I've checked and our cars are 2 days apart, in date of first registration. Despite yours being 2 chassis numbers after mine (and 3 engine numbers later), yours was registered just before mine.

So it's interesting that you should have a different brass plate from mine. I thought it might be due to your care being for export (hence the reference to AC being the "Sole UK Distributors" on your plate), but as far as I can see your car was a UK car (at least in the 1980s), so that theory looks unlikely to be correct.

I suspect that the answer is that your car was sold from the London showroom in Kensington and mine was sold from TC's Hersham site - and they had different plates for different sales points. Typical Bristol idiosyncracy!!

George

[GeorgeG]

Hi, Xseries.

Just seen your post - yet another design. Who knew? I suspect that there may not be many people with my version, so probably even fewer with a missing one of the pair and needing a replacement.

I probably wouldn't have bothered with trying to get a second plate if there wasn't a faint outline of the missing one on the passenger side sill. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it!

George

[Zorglub]

I’m keen to get two plates - as I have none... the wider one seems nicer I guess since many have been several versions

[Kevin H]

At what point in time did Anthony Crook motors cease to exist as a Bristol dealership?

[GeorgeG]

I think it was in about 1973 - when he became sole owner of BCL, sold up Hersham and concentrated on Kensington and Filton, plus of course the service facility at Chiswick.