Re: SER1 re register without docs

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When I re-built my '49, I had a similar problem.

I contacted the British Heritage Trust and Land Rover Traceability. From 
this, I know that R.061.00082 was produced from 21/8/49 to 9/9/49,then 
shipped to Rossleigh Ltd, Edinburgh. Rossleigh ceased to be a company 
many years ago (though the name has recently been resurected), so that 
was a dead-end.

Edinburgh Council have documentation that show that SY 9255 (no vehicle 
description is listed, there are just 5 hand-written columns in small 
ledgers) was sold by Adam Purves (Galashiels) to Douglas M. Ramsay (also 
Galashiels) on 16/8/50. Although the date looks odd, the registrations 
on the same page are all from August `49, which implies that the vehicle 
spent almost a year on forecourts, before finding a buyer.

I MOT'd and insured the vehicle on it's chassis number, then made an 
appointment with my local Vehicle Licencing office, who inspected the 
paperwork, cast an eye over the vehicle (basically ensuring the the 
paperwork matched the vehicle, and then gave me a registration number.

I was lucky: my number had not been bought by someone else, and the guy 
was feeling generous. I happened to have a couple of pictures of the 
vehicle in it's pre-restoration state (and still in the back garden it 
was recovered from), which also showed a matching registration plate... 
so I was given the original '49 number for the vehicle

Lyndon Wortley wrote:
> Bob,
> I will soon be in the same position as yourself: when I purchased my 88"
> it had spent the previous 14 years sitting in a shed: the guy I bought
> it from spent a couple of hours looking for the tax book (V5) but it has
> never turned up: they had tidied up too well after his father passed
> away!  The DVLA website has guidelines on retaining original
> registrations or getting an age related one: it lists a variety of
> information needed for these purposes.  Nice to know that Michael Burn
> can also give a little guidance...
> Lyndon
> 

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  Ian Stuart: Code Gorilla, Perl Laghu, & Land Rover fettler
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