LLangurig in Powys A date please if possible for the cars

[sunflower]

Photo of a AA man in the village of LLangurig in Powys, Wales.

Hoping someone with more knowledge of cars may know roughly what year it was

Carol

[jim1]

The reg. no. indicates it was registered in Carmarthenshire.
It was used up to 1929 so this must be pretty close to that date.

[sunflower]

That is brilliant Jim thank you so much.

Do you get the reg number as BX8434?

Carol

[Karen McDonald]

The Black Lion is still there and doesn't look very different from the outside:

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qur/


Might be worth asking them if they know anything about the photo.

They obviously like dogs.   


This is a nice website:
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qus/

I quote:
In the 1920s patrolmen began to use a combination motorbike with a side-car, equipped with tools and spare parts for repairs and by 1938 there were 1,500 on the road, as well as 850 bicycle patrols.

Here is a 1927 Triumph AA Combination for comparison:
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01quq/

AA bike & sidecar from 1932:
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qut/

[jim1]

The car may possibly be a Morris Cowley & Oxford flatnose coupe.
Produced 1926-31.
As the number plate ceased in 1929 would put it 1926-29.
Doesn't mean to say it was new when the photo was taken.

[sunflower]

Thanks both very much for additional information.

I live only 10 miles from Llangurig and nothing has changed at all from the old photos.

Carol

[jim1]

I live only 10 miles from Llangurig and nothing has changed at all from the old photos

In that case perhaps the car's still there !

[ALAMO2008]

Went through here the other day on route home to Aberystwyth
Can confirm Jim1 Car no longer there.
But everything else much the same.
If the AA man was local he is probably in the Church Graveyard just up on the left.

[jim1]

Didn't pass a scrapyard by any chance?