number plates type and bracketry ?

[richard]

thanks friends - mocking it up does help a lot i will have to measure it up and check , but that does look better than i feared it would.




a quick check on the net shows that legally the letters pre '64 should be 3 1/2" high - i make that 87.5mm ( could probably get away with post '64 and go with 3 1/8" - 79mm

if i can get away with pre '73 motorcycle plates the size of the letters reduces to 62.5 mm - a big difference - but would it now look to small !!

out with the measure

[Bob Purton]

anyway the last time i saw FCM 820 in the flesh it had big ugly plates too ! 

No, I dont think so. It would have had the standard size plate on the back but I used it with no plate at all on the front for some years. It was like that when we drove to Story as I recall. The little front plate came later. In this other pic of RCM 820 is that your Gordon in the background?

[richard]

bob - i was hoping you would not mention cars spotted in the background - embarassing as the Gordon has only just progressed passed this stage - very recently ! but it will be on the road THIS YEAR !

[Bob Purton]

Well it was pay back time Richard for pointing out a certain project accidently seen in a photo I recenly posted! HO Ho!!
About your only windscreen in the world, would it not be prudent to call by at Pilkingtons, Isle of Sheppey next time your down south and get another made from it ? With a toughened sceen, once they shatter they are gone for good. I think I would have a laminated one made and use that.

[richard]

where on earth is the isle of sheppey. it's not a bad idea though 

[Bob Purton]

Why Kent of course!
http://www.pilkington.com/europe/uk+and+ireland/english/automotive/agr/pilkington+queenborough/default.htm

[Chris Thomas]

Dear Richard

I met Pilkingtons Commercial Director at the classic motor show and he was quite up for us doing a factory visit if we could get a group together. It would have to be a week day.

If they have the template then the windscreen is quite economical. If not they will make a template and make it to order, which is slightly more expensive. If you look on thir web site you should be able to see all the ones they do.

If anybody would like me to organise a factory trip I am prepared to be the go between.

Chris Thomas

[Bob Purton]

Chris, I have to go visit them at some stage to get a screen made so would be up for a tour, it may smooth the way for my unusual order. I think the likelyhood of them having a template for a Brutcsh Pifel is remote to say the least but who knows!

[richard]

Herr Bruetsch would i am sure have used a readily available off the shelf , carefully  , windscreen - but off what as it would have almost certainly been German .

[Bob Purton]

I reasoned in the same way about the Tourette windscreen, never did find out what Carr brother used though. We may both be wrong, it may have been just as easy to have a bespoke small batch made to order. Some of the screens on these plastic creations remind me of the screens found on speed boats from the period, food for thought.

[richard]

i did hear mention , was it al, that it might possibly be a Renault Dauphine , rear screen . no idea if it looks like one though

[g-o-g-g-o]

Hi Richard
               The Renault Dauphine rear screen was for the Goggo Dart.
                                                                                                              Mike

[richard]

hi mike
there you you might unknowingly have hit the nail on the head . goggo dart - bruetsch dart surely no coincidence

[messerschmitt]

the small plates are motorbike plates - totally legal on a three wheeler, as is not having a plate on display at the front as per Bob's cream/yellow schmitt.

I have the original pressed alloy ones on my car - but the front one is a curved plate as you would once have had attached to the front mudguard for slicing pedestrians in two with!

[Big Al]

where on earth is the isle of sheppey. it's not a bad idea though 

Its near Mikey?