> Forgot to list the #
>
> TLH 635
> **************
According to: http://www.londonbusroutes.net/miscellaneous/regs.htm#council
this was a car number issued by the Greater London Council, prior to 1963.
The first letter is a "counter" (i.e. A was first, then B etc.), so it was
fairly late in the series of LH numbers. Maybe late 50s, early 60s? The
embossed lettering you describeed was quite typical for plates back then,
and the standard plate color was white (or silver) lettering on a black
background. Later plates (from 1963, maybe, when the numbering system
changed?) were black on yellow refelective paint for the rear plate and
black on white refelectice paint for the front plate. For a while in the
sixties you had a choice - you could use the traditional, non-reflective
plates or the new reflective plates, but the bblack plates were eliminated
some time in the 70s if I remember correctly.
This was probably more than you wanted to know...
Mike
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