Is this correct?
A known genuine MkII Cooper S had this compliance plate fitted to it:
I thought a car like this should have had one of the larger square plates?
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| Author: | PetenSoaf [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:08 pm ] |
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Is this correct? A known genuine MkII Cooper S had this compliance plate fitted to it:
I thought a car like this should have had one of the larger square plates? |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:13 pm ] |
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That is like mine, (dated 3/70) except numbers different. I think the plates were made bigger a few years later so they could fit all the ADR numbers in. 
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:14 pm ] |
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Interesting... Maybe it had a replacement plate fitted. 
That style of plate is the same as the 76 Mini S plate that I have. I don't know when that plate was first fitted. A lot of new Ford get new tags because they are stickers! 
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| Author: | PetenSoaf [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:17 pm ] |
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drmini in aust wrote: That is like mine, (dated 3/70) except numbers different.
I think the plates were made bigger a few years later so they could fit all the ADR numbers in. But weren't MkII S plates, right from compliance plate introduction, the larger size? The plate I've pictured above is similar (in size at least) to those fitted to Clubmans and Mokes. . . |
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:22 pm ] |
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The early plates were big but all the later plates were smaller. I don't think that there would be any difference between the normal Mini and the Cooper S. So if the doc has another small plate on a similar date car you could assume that they changed in 70. |
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| Author: | poeee [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:35 pm ] |
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My early 70 van has the big square one. Would assume they changed 1/2 way through the year. Would be good to see early Clubman ones, too. Anton aka GT, can you help with what a GT plate looks like? |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:40 pm ] |
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Morris 1100 wrote: The early plates were big but all the later plates were smaller. I don't think that there would be any difference between the normal Mini and the Cooper S.
So if the doc has another small plate on a similar date car you could assume that they changed in 70. OOPs sorry, mine does have the big square one, my bad. 
It's hidden behind the `matic heater, hard to see...
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:43 pm ] |
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poeee wrote: My early 70 van has the big square one. Would assume they changed 1/2 way through the year. Would be good to see early Clubman ones, too. Anton aka GT, can you help with what a GT plate looks like? He also has a 71 Clubman for sale so that plate may help as well. 
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| Author: | PetenSoaf [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:44 pm ] |
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Have seen a very early GT here in WA - and it had the 'normal' small Clubman compliance plate. Looks like they must have changed sometime around December '70. Our November '70 MkII S had (can only see the rivet holes) a larger square plate. . . |
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| Author: | justminis [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:48 pm ] |
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I have a 11/70 Mk 2 S with the big plate, also a 12/70 K that has the big plate too. Perhaps yours is a replacement? |
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| Author: | PetenSoaf [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:53 pm ] |
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justminis wrote: I have a 11/70 Mk 2 S with the big plate, also a 12/70 K that has the big plate too. Perhaps yours is a replacement?
Possibly - although there are only two rivet holes in the body where the plate is fitted (down behind the brake booster). It doesn't look as though one of the larger, 4-rivet plates has ever been fitted. |
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:12 pm ] |
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Here are two later plates for comparison... 
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| Author: | mr moke [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:40 pm ] |
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hi pete i think i've got the the same size plate at home it is of a 1970 also i'll have alook on wednesday when i get home. 
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:47 pm ] |
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Oooh I just noticed an important difference between....
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Notice that the word British is missing from the second one. |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:58 pm ] |
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And why is the 1st one reverse stamped as usual, and not the 2nd? Stamps wear out??
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