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MG TD TF 1500 - TD Black Patent Plate Background

I have been pouring over items people sent me for the last 5 years getting them posted on the websites and found car number 0268 that Matthew sent me a few pictures of.

It has a nickel background patent plate. Up to this point I thought they were all black. So now I need some help figuring out when the factory cut over to black patent plates.

I decided to take a stab at the same time the scuttle tube stiffener went in but that's just a wild guess.

I need people with nickel backed patent plates to post their car numbers here and hopefully we can pin the date down better.

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_production.htm#Feature

Chris Couper

If the tube stiffener is the "Dash stiffener assembly" in the Service Parts List, then these started at chassis 0351.

Matthew.
M Magilton

'52 MG TD 12947 had a nickle plate

Patrick
Patrick Earles

Right or wrong Chris, my TD came to me with these...both brass and any signs of plating was long gone.

L E D LaVerne

Easier to read here

L E D LaVerne

Again correct or not I can't say but the body tag is copper...no signs of plating when it came to me.

L E D LaVerne

Chris,
Sorry to say I think mine was chromed by the DPO.
All the info is embossed into the plate though.
But can't state which configuration it originally was.

Rod

R D Jones

Mine appears to be brass.

Jud

J K Chapin

4139 Had nickle. I polished it off prior to knowing I should have left it on.
Bruce Cunha

Bruce: Can you attach a picture? Even though Lavernes is all brass now, its a black one.

Rods and Juds are also black.

Maybe I should have been different in how I described the plates.

If you have a sunken background its black. It you have sunken letters its nickel.

Or simpler the nickel one has a line around the patents where the black one is a panel with the patents within the sunken panel.

All the plates were originally nickel plated, but it the background I attributed to being black vs nickel with a black border.
Chris Couper

Here you go Chris.

The plate is flat with the letters and the line around the edge sunken.

PS. Going to be out your way the 23-30 visiting my family in Diamond Springs. Do you still have your shop? If so, would love to stop in and say hi.

Bruce Cunha

Bruce: You win. You have a non black one. I will update the production page and bring it up close to your number until someone finds me a later one.

You are thinking of Lawrie Alexander. And he no longer has his shop. He lives about 5 miles from me a bit closer to Diamond Springs. You might want to send him an email. He is at lawrie@britcars.com

But you are welcome to come by my house and help put my car back together :-)
Chris Couper

Here is TD20759.



Dean E

Chris
TD0460 has a nickel plate
Richard
R A B Wilson

Chris

Love to. Drop me a phone number at Bruce dot Cunha at charter.net and I will give you a call when I get out there.

I seen to remember a shop down in the Shingle Springs area. Thought it was yours.
Bruce Cunha

So far car 4139 is the latest. Anyone later with just a line around their patent plate versus the sunken background?
Chris Couper

This thread was discussed between 11/09/2013 and 14/09/2013

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