25DB front number plate

[Trafdlo]

Hi all,
Can anyone suggest a source for the number plate fitting across the forks under the headlight- not the one with holes for bolts to go right through, but one with blind deep nuts fixed on the back to take screws?
Pat H.

[John Wakefield]

Hi all,
Can anyone suggest a source for the number plate fitting across the forks under the headlight- not the one with holes for bolts to go right through, but one with blind deep nuts fixed on the back to take screws?
Pat H.

The size is 10 inches x 2.5 inches the Pillars (deep nuts) are 7/8 inches long. I think the originals are made of steel. So a piece of 18swg sheet & braze/weld the pillars to it. This is really just a mounting plate, the actual number plate of same dimensions would be screwed to it. On my bike I have the pressed alloy type, still available from specialist number plate makers like Tippers http://www.tippersvintageplates.co.uk/
If you cannot make the mounting plate yourself any competent sheet metal company/engineering firm should be able to make it up.

[Guest]

The size is 10 inches x 2.5 inches the Pillars (deep nuts) are 7/8 inches long. I think the originals are made of steel. So a piece of 18swg sheet & braze/weld the pillars to it. This is really just a mounting plate, the actual number plate of same dimensions would be screwed to it. On my bike I have the pressed alloy type, still available from specialist number plate makers like Tippers http://www.tippersvintageplates.co.uk/
If you cannot make the mounting plate yourself any competent sheet metal company/engineering firm should be able to make it up.

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John, I believe there were curved plates as well. Do you have any info on these?

Keith

[Guest]

Front number plates.

Have had a dig thro' all the roadster parts books. Only curved plates on early steel valanced mudguards. All the DB and DC models had number plate part no. M11/X16 with loose spacers about 3/8" long part number M14/X4 2 off.

Keith.

[John Wakefield]

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John, I believe there were curved plates as well. Do you have any info on these?

Keith

No nothing, only the one on my bike which I measured, Maybe the curved part was the actual number plate, as most bikes had these fitted to front mudguard then I suspect dealers used curved blanks they had in stock.

[Trafdlo]

25DB front number plate

Thanks gents.
John, my 32DB has one straight as you describe with stick-on digits, but there is not one fitted on the 25DB and obviously in 1959 it had to have one.
I just hoped someone made them but I am prepared to make one .
Thanks again for your help and prompt replies.
Pat H.

[Guest]

Thanks gents.
John, my 32DB has one straight as you describe with stick-on digits, but there is not one fitted on the 25DB and obviously in 1959 it had to have one.
I just hoped someone made them but I am prepared to make one .
Thanks again for your help and prompt replies.
Pat H.

Hi Pat, the 32DB is a rare bike. I had a very early 1959 one way back in 1983 Not ... 40 GFC by any chance?

Keith

[Trafdlo]

25DB front number plate

Hi Keith,
I have sent you a PM
Pat H.