RE: SER1 Land Rover Name Plates

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Hi,
I just checked and my 51 has the stamped Birmingham badges. I have noticed 
they are stamped much sharper than some of the Solihul badges on the S2's 
and S2A's.

Bob Bernard


At 09:10 AM 10/25/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>G'day Diana
>I do't think they mixed the cast and pressed badges on one vehicle. Rifling
>through my collection of books it appears the 1951 model should wear the
>cast badges,subsequent ywars have the stamped ( Birmingham) version. the
>Solihull badge wasn't introduced until the series 2 came to be, as far as I
>know.
>
>Tom Tollefson, 1952 80" (with stamped badges)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: series1-host@xxxxxxxxx.xxx [mailto:series1-host@xxxxxxxxx.xxx]On
>Behalf Of Diana Alan
>Sent: October 25, 2004 12:56 AM
>To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>Subject: Re: SER1 Land Rover Name Plates
>
>
>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
>
>
>
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