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Title: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: alveleyhistorian on Tuesday 12 September 23 21:38 BST (UK)
Hi there,
This photo was given to me about 40 years ago
I have often wondered the make of car..and which year it dates from ?
Any help much appreciated
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: mazi on Tuesday 12 September 23 21:52 BST (UK)
Link doesn’t work for me, is the 0 kb a clue.

Mike
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: alveleyhistorian on Tuesday 12 September 23 22:07 BST (UK)
Copy of photo
Registration is. CAE 939
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: SMJ on Wednesday 13 September 23 01:22 BST (UK)
CAE is a code for a Bristol area registered car.
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: arthurk on Wednesday 13 September 23 14:08 BST (UK)
No image on the second link either, unfortunately.

As SMJ says, CAE is a registration originally issued in Bristol. If I've understood the following page correctly, CAE followed by a number (1-999) would have been issued between November 1935 and October 1936, so presumably it's from somewhere near the end of that period. (CAE is also shown as being issued in 1958, but I think that would have been ones with numbers before letters.)

https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/ae.htm
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: alveleyhistorian on Thursday 14 September 23 09:10 BST (UK)
Car
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: Andy J2022 on Thursday 14 September 23 09:29 BST (UK)
It looks like a Morris Eight. Produced between 1935 and 1948 according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Eight)
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.M5mECa8zN45c7O3yT--znwHaEK%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=2e82b1f2922e537057bdaa3f6cce7801b85a0a55b2376bcc7402764370a54596&ipo=images)
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: ShaunJ on Thursday 14 September 23 09:33 BST (UK)
Yes I'm pretty sure it's a Morris Eight.
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: mazi on Thursday 14 September 23 14:18 BST (UK)
Slight correction, it dates from 1932 to 1938, replaced in 1938 by the Morris 8 series E, a more modern style which lasted until 1948.

I passed my test in one :)

Mike
Title: Re: Shropshire - vintage car date
Post by: Jebber on Thursday 14 September 23 15:17 BST (UK)
That brings back memories. My father had four door version, bought new in 1936 and mothballed during the war. It was involved in just in one minor accident, another car tried to overtake him on a blind bend,  cutting in to avoid an oncoming car, they caught the front bumper and bent it.

The car was finally sold on in 1959, just as I was old enough to get my provisional license. I only managed to get to  drive it a couple of times.

I saw it still being driven locally in the mid sixties.