Advertising 1962 Vanden Plas Princess 4-litre Hearse Startin Ep. 15.06Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2023-04-24 07:10 |
We've identified this vehicle using the details you provided UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Registration number: 589 AFR Body type: Hearse Colour: Unknown Date of first registration: November 1962 DVLA returns an Austin with its last tax due in 1983. |
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◊ 2023-04-24 08:55 |
Seems rather Princess-y to me. According to my book, the name became Vanden Plas Princess in 1960, and remained so until the design was deleted in 1968. AFR reversed, County Borough of Blackpool, 9/62 to 1/63. Does the Blackpool registration suggest Burlingham, or possibly Swallow coachwork? -- Last edit: 2023-04-24 09:13:38 |
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◊ 2023-04-24 12:13 |
It also looks like Blackpool sea front, and before I get a chorus of “Where’s the sea, then?”, the tide was out. (The camera man had his back to the oggin.) |
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◊ 2023-04-24 12:26 |
Yes it is Blackpool. Rather shapely rear end , extra points for what the rear lights are off. ![[Image: 2023-04-234.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3808/2023-04-234.jpg) Undertakers day out .gif ":)") ![[Image: 2023-04-242.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3808/2023-04-242.jpg) -- Last edit: 2023-04-24 12:38:17 |
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◊ 2023-04-24 13:22 |
RR Silver Cloud. But I don't know if RR made their own or adapted/adopted lights from somewhere else. They look very BMC-like, but not quite exactly the same. Probably made by Lucas in any case. |
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◊ 2023-04-24 13:46 |
I can only speak for my Bentley and say that the electrics, carbs, fuel pumps (yes, it needs two) and such were all proprietary items of various makes. Things like the starter and dynamo were Lucas, but before the antique jokes about “Joe Lucas Prince of Darkness” start let me say that the price per unit, and therefore the perceived quality, were very different from the stuff supplied to the mass market. Are we looking at an earlier Dottridge body? -- Last edit: 2023-04-24 13:54:37 |
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◊ 2023-04-24 14:19 |
Thought Royce lights , the whole rear wing is Royce like. |
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◊ 2023-04-24 16:19 |
No, it's not a Dottridge Brothers body - this is a deck hearse by Thomas Startin Junior Limited of Birmingham. ![[Image: startinprincessjune1960.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3946/startinprincessjune1960.jpg) |
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