Post by Phil Hetherington on Aug 3, 2007 11:08:03 GMT 1
OK, if you can't beat them, join them, and all that.
VPF169, my very early Standard 10, was built on 17th July 1954 and first registered on 17th August 1954. It's a Guildford registration. However, I've now discovered that all of the Surrey registration records were sent to the DVLA in 1978 when the computersised records were set up, and the DVLA haven't kept them.
By 11 January 1978 it was owned by an Albert Riddles of Lancing, and he kept the car until 1994, after which it has had a succession of owners none of whom did anything much with it. Its last tax ran out in 1994, and if its present condition is anything to go by it must have been an MOT failure (the sills have virtually disappeared!)
Anyway, I have the history from 1978 onwards because I was able to get that from the DVLA (for a fee). What I would like to do is find out more about its history from 1954-1978. As Mr. Riddles kept the car for so long it is quite possible that he owned it for some years before 1978, perhaps even from new, but with no original registration documents it will be difficult to find out.
What I'm wondering is whether anyone knows who the Standard-Triumph dealers were in the Surrey area, and whether any of their sales records might survive somewhere? It's a long shot, but it seems to be the only chance, unless Mr. Riddles is still in circulation in the Lancing area - and as time goes by, that gets less likely.
Answers on a postcard please! (Or on here...)
Thanks,
Phil
VPF169, my very early Standard 10, was built on 17th July 1954 and first registered on 17th August 1954. It's a Guildford registration. However, I've now discovered that all of the Surrey registration records were sent to the DVLA in 1978 when the computersised records were set up, and the DVLA haven't kept them.
By 11 January 1978 it was owned by an Albert Riddles of Lancing, and he kept the car until 1994, after which it has had a succession of owners none of whom did anything much with it. Its last tax ran out in 1994, and if its present condition is anything to go by it must have been an MOT failure (the sills have virtually disappeared!)
Anyway, I have the history from 1978 onwards because I was able to get that from the DVLA (for a fee). What I would like to do is find out more about its history from 1954-1978. As Mr. Riddles kept the car for so long it is quite possible that he owned it for some years before 1978, perhaps even from new, but with no original registration documents it will be difficult to find out.
What I'm wondering is whether anyone knows who the Standard-Triumph dealers were in the Surrey area, and whether any of their sales records might survive somewhere? It's a long shot, but it seems to be the only chance, unless Mr. Riddles is still in circulation in the Lancing area - and as time goes by, that gets less likely.
Answers on a postcard please! (Or on here...)
Thanks,
Phil
