Morris Minor Owners Club

My cousin and I went bottle-digging this morning and dug up a great number plate just by my house - WXC 77.
Checked the RAC website and its not on the road anyway - in fact i think i remember as a little girl cutting my leg on the rotting chassis trying to get through the undergrowth to the tree-house.......
Anyway, anyone know the score with this one? What the numbers mean, whether as a dead car I could use the plate for another one?

Thanks folks!

El.

WXC 77 was issued in London early in 1959, probably in March or April. The WXC numbers were issued in blocks until July 1960. You cannot put the number on your car as it has to be transferred from a taxed and tested vehicle that can and will be inspected. The number is probably not on the DVLA register so will be void anyway. Hard luck!

El, you never cease to amaze me

I went bottle-digging this morning

Hmmm excuse my ignorance EL but is that some type of Cornish weekend ritual

i think i remember as a little girl cutting my leg on the rotting chassis trying to get through the undergrowth to the tree-house.......

So, hang on, what's happened to the rotting chassis (and indeed the rest of poor old WXC)? Was it lying upside-down, or just rusted away? Or did someone actually get rid of the poor thing?

(Up in the Lake-district I used to pass an 803cc engine and what appeared to be the rather sad remains of a van, consisting of the two rear doors, a chassis and some rather rusty random bits of panel; I wonder if it's still there).

So, hang on, what's happened to the rotting chassis (and indeed the rest of poor old WXC)? Was it lying upside-down, or just rusted away? Or did someone actually get rid of the poor thing?

No it went in the bottle bank

...maybe it ended up in Australia ;)

Kevin wrote:

I went bottle-digging this morning

Hmmm excuse my ignorance EL but is that some type of Cornish weekend ritual

Me and my Sis' used to go bottle digging, she has a mighty collection of old bottles!

Me and my Sis' used to go bottle digging,

Well thats another gap filled in my lack af knowledge file, and I thought it might just have been a Masonic type of ritual or something, just goes to show how little I know.

Oops. Sorry not to get back quick enough!! Thanks busguy for the useful info. Shame, but I think the car has turned into worm-food. No sign of it now. (I'll just have to nail the plate to the garage wall) - I cant remember what it was. I was little and not interested - far more interested in how to get my swing to stick to the tree..... In the end I used sellotape. And I'll have you know it stayed up for 10 years perfectly strong and safe.

I diverse.

Now I'm going to diverse even more for the rest of you! Its my cousin. He's corrupting me. (Glad you're already corrupted Mr.A.Series!).
He's got this obsessive-compulsive thing about digging in the mud..... But there's method in his madness. This is an idea of the sorts of things he's been finding:

http://collectables.listings.ebay.co.uk ... overrideZ1

http://collectables.listings.ebay.co.uk ... propertyZ1

Watch out! This thing is catching!
YOU TOO will soon be out digging in the mud, sweeping rivers with a weighted-broom and getting strange looks, if you dont beware!!

El.

Oh, I already do.

I've embaressed myself enough times falling into rivers trying to retrieve [potentially interesting things]

The one time I didn't retrive something, I've been peeved about it ever since. Was a coin-box et al for a 1970's pay phone, that I found in a rather revolting river in Birmingham. Although it was almost certainly stolen it'd go nicely with my A/B payphone that currently resides at my parents house (and indeed my other (3, I think) bakelite phones. I'll have none of this 'trilling' going on with my phones thankyouverymuch).

what about playing chart hits?

Pyoor_Kate wrote:I've embaressed myself enough times...

Dan_Harris wrote:what about playing chart hits?

Yes Dan, playing chart hits - thats quite embaressing too.