Info Morris Minor SMM 5528

[ardjemorrissen]

In England many people do not know that there were 3 "ways" in chassisnumbers.


501 RHD
5001 CKD
5501 LHD

In 1948 sept-dec 501- 1208
sept-dec 5001-5258
sept-dec 5501-5705

You can see that number 5528 LHD is older than the English 1208 par example.

Many times I reed, that people in Enland Think my SMM 5528 is 1949.
No it is from 20-12 1948.

I hope taht the list will be changed soon.

[bmcecosse]

Nice 2CV van there ! What's that on the roof of the Minor??

[ardjemorrissen]

On the roof on the picture is the sealing? of the car.

Is made of a kind of hard board in tose days.

[DAVIDMCCULLOUGH]

Headcloth?

[mike.perry]

As I do not have much information on which cars are LHD or CKD they are all listed as RHD for date purpose, unless I know otherwise.
The next Register list will have a more comprehensive breakdown of number allocations at the end. To do the job properly I will have to visit Gaydon to find out all the batch numbers for each type of car for each year.
I will also be ammending the Registration forms to add LHD, RHD and CKD boxes.
Are those the original tail lamps on SMM 4428 or was it previously fitted with L 482 lights?

[ardjemorrissen]

Mike Perry told me that he is making a new list.

We al like to have all information of our Minors.

Now it is still is possible, when we wait to long it will not
lead to success anymore.
All people who know these things are growing old. also....

I am verry happy Mike will do this.

Who can tell me more about Morris Minor 1953 reg JBL 182 lateron TAS 762
surroundings Liverpool, I bought this car recently.

[ardjemorrissen]

I have pictures when the car 5528 was new .
It were the same little round lamps, you see om my foto.
How do L482 lamps look like? What is the modell of them?

[Neil MG]

If you look carefully you can see the holes in the rear wings where another lamp might have been fitted (possibly the Lucas L471).
http://www.holden.co.uk/displayproduct. ... pCode=L471

Maybe they were changed by the importer? It seems strange to have just left the holes exposed.

[mike.perry]

There is a photo of L482 tail lights on the Series MM website, Car Ident, Rear Lights. They were only fitted for 6 months.

[ardjemorrissen]

Car is for sale now, look at cars for sale in this forum

[JOWETTJAVELIN]

Those tail lamps are very rare and I am surprised a car still exists untampered. Good to hear it's still going.

It was the same situation with the tail lamps of the MO Oxford, although they had a separate stop lamp until the more familiar 'helmet' lenses arrived.