PMG or not.

[lewy]

Have just got this s2a,seems very late issue 2a and by the red paint all over it including firewall perhaps an ex PMG.how do i find out more info.152702152705

[Bigbjorn]

Have just got this s2a,seems very late issue 2a and by the red paint all over it including firewall perhaps an ex PMG.how do i find out more info.152702152705

Well, the red bits do look like Mercury Red, the PMG fleet colour. The station wagon roof would not be original. I wonder where the compliance plate came from as it is bolted on not riveted. What is the chassis number on the actual chassis and the engine number?

[pop058]

Well, the red bits do look like Mercury Red, the PMG fleet colour. The station wagon roof would not be original. I wonder where the compliance plate came from as it is bolted on not riveted. What is the chassis number on the actual chassis and the engine number?

Yeah, the tek screws holding the VIN plate are a bit questionable

[lewy]

yes have to agree.the tec screws are a bit sus.the red is also from front to back.Still trying to find the chassis number,should be on the rear spring hanger i think.Engine has supposidly been changed.

[lewy]

chassis number matches the plate.except i cant see the suffix number,but it is dark

[pop058]

chassis number matches the plate.except i cant see the suffix number,but it is dark

I recently spotted a pic of the Leyland holding yard and there was a generous sprinkle of what appear to be red hardtops. I will see if I can find the pic.

[pop058]

I recently spotted a pic of the Leyland holding yard and there was a generous sprinkle of what appear to be red hardtops. I will see if I can find the pic.

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[Bigbjorn]

I recently spotted a pic of the Leyland holding yard and there was a generous sprinkle of what appear to be red hardtops. I will see if I can find the pic.

I wonder what date that photo was taken and where that storage was. Minis were usually at Zetland and LR's at Pressed Metal, Enfield. Although Zetland might have been chocka with unloved and unwanted Morris 1500's and production had to be stored elsewhere. I don't recall delivering any PMG hardtops out of Rocklea but quite a few with dropside bodies.

[JDNSW]

This was very early for compliance plates so attachment method may not have been standardised very well. As far as I can recall, the PMG were the only common red ones, but some fire services had them as well - I saw two ex-RFS ones last week at Mudgee field days.

[lewy]

I wonder what date that photo was taken and where that storage was. Minis were usually at Zetland and LR's at Pressed Metal, Enfield. Although Zetland might have been chocka with unloved and unwanted Morris 1500's and production had to be stored elsewhere. I don't recall delivering any PMG hardtops out of Rocklea but quite a few with dropside bodies.
Used to live at Moorebank in the late 60's,the leyland factory had hundreds of mini's stored in the rear then,cant remember any land rovers though[i was 14ish though]

[ezyrama]

Public Money Grabbers Truck. I haven't seen one of those for years. I know where there is a Telecom Australia 109" sitting in a paddock. I have contacted the owner, nice old Southern American bloke and a pleasure to talk too, but he gave it to his daughter and she never returned my calls. Its a shame really as it looks like it hasn't turned a wheel for years by the amount of grass growing up around it and I would hate to see it rust away to nothing.