In VIC it is an historic archive search, not an FOI request. I gave them my engine and body numbers and they sent me a copy of the original police station registration paper with the owners name and address blacked out and an additional letter showing the 4 other number plates my car has had. It cost about $17- and I now have the original plates back on the car. That doesn't help you in NSW though.
My point earlier Steve is that on the rego papers it is recorded as a '69 Cooepr S because that is when it was registered even though by the numbers it had to be built in '68. Because there is no year on the car it is only recorded as a '69 both with vicroads and my insurance even though I know it was built in late '68. As far as they are concerned it is a '69 mini. It doesn't matter but it is interesting.

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Flute - 68 MK I Cooper S
Member: VMCI #2474
Member: International Mini Model Collectors Club

Hi Jim

i have just tried googling "historic archive search" but came up with nothing. Do you have any more info on this, ie, how far back it goes, limitations etc. If possible I am trying to find out more information on my bike which had Vic rego up until 1953 (maybe 1963), the AOMC search told me less than I already knew.

Cheers
Steve

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1964 998cc Cooper
1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT

I have now looked on the VicRoads website and found this http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rdonl ... 10_WEB.pdf

Is this what you are referring to

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1964 998cc Cooper
1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT

Hi Steve, I didn't fill in any forms, I just wrote to The Manager, Archives, Vicroads Head Office, Kew. I am at work but should have a copy of the letter I sent with the address at home. A few weeks later they sent all the info back. They were very helpful, almost keen to start hunting, I guess they are the people that look after the records and were keen to actually have to find something. They also told me the plate was available and then it becomes a historic re-issue like a personalised plate that is registered to me and not the vehicle. That cost about $300- but worth it I thought. Now I don't want to take it off and put club plates on even though it would a fifth the cost for rego. When I find it I will post it here or PM. I hope I haven't taken this thread too far off track sorry. I will try and finds the links to other threads about this same subject. Cheers.

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Flute - 68 MK I Cooper S
Member: VMCI #2474
Member: International Mini Model Collectors Club

I did an FOI request on VicRoads about 2 years ago looking for information on the Cooper S Victoria Police trialled in 1966 and the two Cooper S's they subsequently used in service. Like Flute I got back about ten pages of original and later registration papers with personal identifiers removed.

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ex-NSW Police 1970 MK II Cooper S
VMCI #43

Yes, that's what they tell everyone.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

I am presuming my car was originally from NSW but how do you tell? Might be worth asking Vic anyway to see if anything comes up?
Thanks for your input. Leigh.

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Now with 2 extra ports!

Hi
That would be great if you could get that info for me
Cheers
Steve

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1964 998cc Cooper
1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT

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"Show me the Mini!"

We had s car came into work a while ago, for change of state roadworthy, a Kia Carnival If I remember right. It had complience plate dated a couple of months BEFORE build date........work that out!

An import can be different...... Citroen Fly/Drive holidays in the 50's-70's let you buy and pay for your car in Australia at your local Citroen dealer, collect it from the factory in Paris all registered, taxed ,etc drive it around Europe, load it on a ship and bring it home. Only then was it complianced/reg'd in Australia on its arrival - sometimes 2 years after it was sent off from the factory.

As far as Aust was concerned it didnt exist until it landed in the country even though you paid australian money for it ages before. So a 69 car in the rest of the world was a 72 car when it arrived in Oz.... go figure. I know of three people having this experience in the early 70's with their DS's.

Anyway a bit of a tangent but maybe relevant:......... PSA Citroen can provide you a complete production line record of ANY Citroen made -yes from 1919 to date. You just need to give them the car ID (chassis, engine, car ID number) - and pay them! The archives will look through the production records and pull the relevant ones for that actual car; the specification, the colour and trim, the factory production-line times, any corrections, etc, etc.

The NSW Citroen Club are lucky. They scored the sales ledgers and import logs from Citroen from the early 50's to the mid 70's - including the local production of cars in Victoria in the 60's too.

There must be something similar for BMC(A) in boxes in someones garage? If not perhaps there is enough interest to try and amass centrally as much BMC(A) car prouction info as possible online via a car club library, a state library, or the like?
Maybe a project/development grant to set-up the project as a part of Aust/Syd industrial heritage might be on offer?

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YDO005 1965 stock standard MORRIS MINI DELUXE

I have had a bit to do with the Australian War Memorial and know a couple of the historian/researchers reasonablt well.

Today its a little bit diferent as people are conscious of history and when they find a stash of records in a box in deceased grandads garage they will make fforts to find a home for them.

However, even ten years ago, the attitude was that its all a lot of rubbish that nobody wants and when deceased estates were cleaned oit it simply went into skips and off tot he tip.

The AWM is painfully aware of this and estimate that tons of valuable artefacts, records and personal histories went down the tip route.

I suspect that the BMC records lay in a garage or shed somewhere and also took the tip route as part of a deceased estate clean up.

Mike

A few years ago when Rover? at Moorebank was changing names or something they threw out all the records relating to minis and others someone i know tried to salvage as much of the records as possible but didn't get a lot so there is virtually nothing left.

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That's why it's good to be.............ME

There was a Citroen in the 1977 London-Sydney that was purchased that way and the owner decided to enter the rally and drive it home to Aus rather than ship it.

Unfortunately his new car had mangled front panels and was generally rather stuffed by the time it finished the rally.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2