Re: SER1 Land Rover Name Plates

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Thanks Nick

Your in the top 1% of the running (in fact your also in the bottom 1% but
others may be heads down and bums up writing!) - I will publish the class
scores at the end of the semester.

I remember in the late 1960's when my family had a 1950 LR (lights through
the grille but didn't have the wire ring so may have been a modification,)
it had the cast metal badge on the front and I think also on the back but
can't actually remember.

My 1951 came sans badges.

We wait with baited breath in anticipation for the other answers.

Diana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Condon" <ncondon@xxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: RE: SER1 Land Rover Name Plates

Question 1: What was/is the purpose of these differing heights?

Because artistic design of the badges including the hyphen between Land and
Rover means that symmetrically placed holes would be too close to the
letters and would be inelegant and would damage their readability.

Question 2: When was the cast version superceeded by the pressed version?

Not quite an answer: The vehicles before 8660000 (commencement of 1949 model
year) had two small cast badges 300999 and after they had the small cast
badge on the grille and a larger cast one 301462 on the rear.

At some point - not specified in the parts lists but roughly between 1950
and 1953 - the rear badge 301462 disappears and is replaced by 302361 which
I presume is the pressed type. The small front badge is replaced with the
same pressed part 302361 as well.

I believe, without much evidence, that the badges change roughly with the
change from lights behind the grille to lights through the grille - Mid 1950
model year. The part numbers near to 303361 are all associated with the body
panel changes in the first half of 1950.

I bet your 1951 vehicle should have pressed badges but cannot guess which
type.



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