Writing under the paint

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Originally Posted by Mustlust

After almost 10 years of ownership, I’ve decided to remove the horrible paint that had been applied to my S1 a few decades ago. On the front mudguard I’ve noticed the faintest impression of hand painted signage. I can just make out the word ‘Ringwood’ which I am guessing was the farm/ station that it was originally employed upon. There is a very faint reference to load capacity a bit below. The owners initial and incomplete name is above.
I happen to have the original Rego number which has the 3 letters then numbers, so I guess this was a NSW Rego. I did, however, acquire the landie from around Bundaberg in Qld.
I was thinking of doing some investigation and if I can find some reference material, maybe try to replicate the signage.
Has anyone got similar hand written signage on there front guard? Pics would be appreciated.

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hi landrover sign was puton annard and thomson sold lrovers jim

Thanks Jim, any idea of colour? Was it yellow?

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

In the 1950s all states agreed to a unified registration number scheme as ABC-123. NSW started with A (but heavy trucks were F), Victoria with G, Qld with N, can't remember the rest, but Commonwealth vehicles were Z.

They were implemented at different dates in different states, but my family (in NSW) had one of the new numbers in 1953, still an 'A', but not right at the start of the alphabet.

In NSW all commercial vehicles, including all Landrovers, were required to be labelled with the name and address of the owner and the vehicle's tare weight. I think this requirement ended about 1960, so would have applied to all NSW registered Series 1 and some Series 2. There was a minimum size of the writing, and it had to be on the RH side.

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Qld. started with NAA in July 1955. I had a Mk.1 Zephyr first registered in December 1955 that was NBG. Some of the cars I owned and can recall the numbers were Q321-770 1940, Q538-268 1951, Q592-??? 1952, Q684-??? 1955, NSU- 1964, NYG- 1966, PSE- 1971, OGC- 1973.

Commercial vehicles had to have signage on the driver's side of the registered owners name and location, tare weight and load in t-c-q. JD is correct this requirement was negated about 1960.

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Here is a similar one I have on a series 2 guard I intend to use. It looks like the PO covered it over with a patch which preserved the script.

I thought the early ones were white writing on the plates attached to front & rear guards ,then went to yellow
I could be wrong but my 1950 80" was white writing & I had a later tailgate were the writing was yellow. Booth vehicles were from A&T.

Would my 1956 86in have had the LR logo in the tailgate too??

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Originally Posted by Mustlust

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I’ll trace of copy of all original signage and aim to find a signwriter to replicate same.

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Maybe: Central West potential awaits | The Land although the owners' name was Border.

Would my 1956 86in have had the LR logo in the tailgate too??

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Originally Posted by Mustlust

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My guess would be “I. Bradley”

The original Land Rover sign on the guard was very likely yellow - the green there now is just the non-faded original paint of the guard. It was fairly common on Queensland assembled vehicles.

All of our registered farm trucks used to have the owners (company) name, property and tare weight painted on the front guards behind the wheel as per your original query.

I personally doubt that the Ringwood name is the Melbourne suburb as per an earlier response - the inverted commas suggest that it was a property name.

Cheers,

Neil