neil.cairns@virgin.net wrote:
>
> Would a letter to the people who keep all the records of
> BMC/BMH/BL/Austin-Rover cars help? The BHMIT Museum at GAYDON in the UK
> ( unfortunately for money...) supply Heritage Certificates on the
> original specification, and destination, of cars, including MG, ( but
> not the 'Y' series, they were thrown away.....) The address is BHMIT,
> Heritage Motor Centre, Banbury Road, GAYDON, Warwickshire, CV35 OBJ,
> England. Phone 01926 641188. If LE numbers were allocated at Abingdon
> for exports, they will have the list of Vin/Chassis numbers to Edition
> number.
Clausager specifically states, for the Jubilee model, that the plaques were
supllied to
dealers *off* the car so the original owners name could be engraved on it. He
also says
that the numbers were only found on the plaques and not recorded at the
factory. Since
he does not mention that the North American LE plaques were numbered (neither
whether
they were supplied to dealers attached or not) it is unlikely that BMIHT would
have
recorded any numbers for these. Were Canadian cars imported through a single
concession
then distributed to dealers? If so perhaps it was the Canadian concession that
had the
plaques engraved.
PaulH.
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