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