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Austin Carr
Jun 12, 2017 - 4:58PM
Re: austin eton for sale For Sale (1937) Is there something wrong with the body?

Jeff Taylor

There could be a clue in its registration which I think is BCO - if so it's a Plymouth registration allocated between May and October 1938 - a Royal Navy connection perhaps, hence the unusual length of the body?
It can't be BGO as that was a London registration issued only during July 1934.



From information below, even with a Plymouth registration it wouldn't have been a Royal Navy car.

1921 - 1949
All military vehicles were registered using the Middlesex codes and displayed a civilian AND military registration. (It is unusual to find the original civilian registration as most of the Middlesex codes were re-issued after 1949, when the new military numbering system was introduced. Hence, why the photos show the age-related Scottish or Welsh codes.)

RAF - followed by up to 6 digit serial

RN - preceded, or followed by, a serial

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http://nice-reg.co.uk/number-plates/number-plates/military-number-plates.html

Location: Oxfordshire

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stuart ulph
Jun 12, 2017 - 5:34PM
Re: austin eton for sale For Sale (1937) Is there something wrong with the body?

The advert states that the car is a 14/6 which would explain the longer chassis. I do not think there is a factory body of this type on the 14/6 chassis. One's mother in law might reasonably take offence.
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Stuart

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Jun 12th, 2017 - 5:34 PM
Mike Costigan
Jun 12, 2017 - 7:02PM
Re: austin eton for sale For Sale (1937) Is there something wrong with the body?

The proportions do look very odd; and if that is a dickey seat, where are the steps to climb in to it? Still, stick the mother in law in there, and one wouldn't be able to hear her complaints!

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Jun 12th, 2017 - 7:02 PM
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