Classic Yellow Numberplates

Does anyone know of a supplier of pressed yellow numberplates to suit
a seventies bike?

Out of interest does anyone know when the now ubiquitous acrylic type
plates were introduced? I'm guessing late eighties.

 

Framptons: http://www.pl8s.co.uk/page3.html though the site says he's
on hol until April 10th. I got some pressed black/silver plates from
him for the Triumph and Notrun/

Early 80s I think. ISTR my dad had an A reg Sierra with a set fitted.

 

sweller says...

My first RD250E had an acrylic number plate in April 1979

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
I ride way too fast to worry about cholestorol.

 

Interesting. All the bikes I've had from that era that still had
their original plates have had pressed or riveted ones.

 

I don't think pressed plates were ever very common. Around that time
it was mostly either the older moulded letters rivetted on or simply
black plastic sticky numbers on the retro-reflective yellow
background. Changing your plate was as simple as peeling the old
letters off and replacing them.

Allegedly.

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Dunno, I had a variety of bikes of late 70s early 80s vintage that had
stick on type plates or pressed ones. Don't think I ever had one with
the moulded letters though. I can think of at least 2 I had with
pressed plates - CB125 LBW14L and CB350K4 PKE40M and I wish I still
had them! Paid 20 for the one and a tenner for the other....

 

sweller says...

I've had earlier and later bikes with original pressed alloy and stick-
on plates from various dealers. It all depended on how bothered your
dealer was about paying a couple of quid extra for a nice fancy new-
fangled acrylic plate when he registered a new bike. Some smaller
dealers made their own stick-on ones or even pressed alloy jobs, some
had them made and delivered as and when they sold a bike.

I know for certain that K Motorcycles in Bedford, where I worked part-
time for a while, never fitted anything but acrylic plates from the day
they started trading and they opened the doors in February 1980. I
cleaned bikes for them at service time, and saw just about every bike
they'd ever sold, all of which had a K's logo'd acrylic plate. They had
their plates made by a national firm called Hills, who were just round
the corner.

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
I ride way too fast to worry about cholestorol.