Austin rear rubber buffer blocks

[trunion]

On the Austin badged pick-up or vans has anyone come across the rear rubber buffer blocks with the letter A on them shown in the picture.
The rubber buffers fitted to this early 71 pick-up were on it when it was rescued for preservation from it's last working owners which leads me to think they are original.

[busguy]

Might be wrong, but they look like they have been carefully cut with a commercial tyre recutting machine!

[trunion]

That was my first thought when I first saw them, they look a very neat even job if they have, it would need a very good hand to cut then so even.
They were on the pick-up when it was rescued.

[les]

I don't think there was ever an A on the rubbers, also the Usual M is not cut in but raised. Whoever did this added a nice touch though, possible more authentic if it was not a rounded A.
I paired the M off of mine, might have go at carving an A!

[IaininTenbury]

Never seen any like that before. Someone told me once that on the Austins the rubber blocks were just mounted upsidedown so it didn't read as an M but never really seen proof of that myself...