SA "71" to SA "99" Two Digit Historic Plates: The SA Historic Plates Register Project- Part V
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SA "71" to SA "99" - Two Digit Historic Plates
The SA Historic Plates Register Project- Part V
We proudly present the histoiries on the last of the SA 2-digits, plates SA71 through to SA99.
Do send us your current and vintage images please, sources will be cited if requested:
SA "71"
First Registered Owner: A.J. Humberstone
Address: Victor Harbor
March 1907 Vehicle: Darracq 12
March 1908 Vehicle: Darracq 12
Rights Sold: Yes, rights obtained post the 1985 Great Plate Auction. We understand that the plate changed hands in the 1990s and the owner is known to us at historicplates.com.au
SA "72"
First Registered Owner: G.B. Woodman
Address: James Place, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 10
March 1908 Vehicle: De Dion 10
Rights Sold: Unknown- this is one of the few 2-digits we have recorded as “unknown”. The rights were not offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and we are unaware that they have been obtained post this event. We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “72” to fill in the details on this plate.
SA "73"
First Registered Owner: Dr. A.E. Shepherd
Address: Norwood
March 1907 Vehicle: Darracq 8
March 1908 Vehicle: Darracq 8
Rights Sold: Yes. The rights were offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and were sold for $1400.
SA "74"
First Registered Owner: Dr. C. Newland
Address: Morphett Vale
March 1907 Vehicle: Darracq 8
March 1908 Vehicle: Humber 10/12
Rights Sold: Yes, we understand the rights were obtained after The 1985 Great Plate Auction and have been obtained subsequently by an owner known to us at historicplates.com.au.
SA "75"
First Registered Owner: J.B. Reid Address: Magill March 1907 Vehicle: Crossley 22 March 1908 Vehicle: Crossley 22
The original owner, James Smith Reid lived at Magill in the homestead Rostrevor, now the College of the same name. He lived there between 1887 and 1913, when the pictured 1905 Crossley was garaged at the foothills home which he upgraded through this period into the form it takes to this day. Reid was a Director of Broken Hill Proprietary Limited, having made his fortune in the Broken Hill Mines through his founding of the Silverton Tramway Company, which paid out 12 million pounds in dividends between 1889 and 1913.
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights were obtained at the 1985 The Great Plate Auction for $1600. SA “75” has been in continuous ownership by a client of ours at historicplates.com.au., and for this client in the 1990’s we brokered a matching low historic 3-digit plate to compliment this special 2-digit number.
SA "76"
First Registered Owner: H.P. Onslow
Address: Woodville
March 1907 Vehicle: Siddeley 6
March 1908 Vehicle: Siddeley 6
Rights Sold: Unknown- this is one of the few 2-digits we have recorded as “unknown”. The rights were not offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and we are unaware that they have been obtained post this event. We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “76” to fill in the details on the history of this plate.
SA "77"
First Registered Owner: Dr. W.T. Angove
Address: Teatree (sic) Gully
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 8
March 1908 Vehicle: De Dion 10
Rights Sold: Unknown- this is one of the few 2-digits we have recorded as “unknown”. The rights were not offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and we are unaware that they have been obtained post this event. We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “77” to fill in the details on the history of this plate.
Originally owned by William Thomas Angove; the founder of Angoves Wines, who obtained this registration in 1906, just 20 years after his arrival in SA from England and the establishement of his wine business. Interestingly, our old records from the plate's first registration spell today’s Tea Tree Gully as "Teatree" Gully.
According to our old records in 1965 the plate was still registered to Angoves and was registered on a 31.5 h.p. Jaguar, either an S type or a MkII. We are undertaking some further research into the whereabouts of this excellent repeating digit plate. We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “77” to fill in the details on the history of this plate.
SA "78"
First Registered Owner: S. Wilcox
Address: North Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Wolseley 12
March 1908 Vehicle: Wolseley 12
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “78” were not offered at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 but were subsequently obtained post auction and are now owned by a client of ours at historicplates.com.au.
Interestingly, S. Wilcox was issued with both SA “78” and SA “79” in 1906 so had sequential registrations.
SA "79"
First Registered Owner: S. Wilcox
Address: North Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: M.M.C. 8
March 1908 Vehicle: M.M.C. 8
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “79” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for $1400, and were purchased by a client of ours at this event along with plate SA “53”. This pair subsequently changed hands after being advertised and is today in single ownership by an investor known to historicplates.com.au.
SA "80”
First Registered Owner: Dr. F.W. Niesche
Address: Wakefield St. Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Oldsmobile 7
March 1908 Vehicle: Talbot 12
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “80” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for $1400, and subsequent to the auction SA “80” changed hands and were purchased by an astute client of ours.
SA "81”
First Registered Owner: H. M. Bray
Address: Hutt St
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 10
March 1908 Vehicle: De Dion 10
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “81” were not sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 but have subsequently been obtained by an astute historic plate investor with an exceptional collection known to us at historicplates.com.au.
SA "82”
First Registered Owner: William A. Lee
Address: Gumeracha
March 1907 Vehicle: Oldsmobile 5
March 1908 Vehicle: Oldsmobile 5
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “82” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for the sum of $1400. We auctioned this plate at The Great Plate Auction 2011 and achieved a record price of $95,000 plus fees (the record lasted about 10 minutes until we sold SA “64” and SA “65”. This special historic plate was one of the four 2-digit plates that we sold on February 13th 2011, the others being SA “87”, SA “65” and SA “64”. We’ve handled the re-sale of more 2-digit Historic Plates than anyone else and remain SA’s experts in re-sale of historic plates. Entrusted to us by an astute family, we were honoured to have been chosen to handle the sale of this plate and exceeded their expectation with our fantastic sale result.
SA "83”
First Registered Owner: L.W.G. Dunn
Address: Blumberg
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 10
March 1908 Vehicle: De Dion 10
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “83” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for the sum of $1200, one of the four 2-digit plates sold for this sum on the day and the “cheapest” of the 2-digits auctioned. Understood to be in long term ownership.
Above is a more recent picture of SA "83", taken in the carpark of The Great Plate Auction event we held in Feb, 2011.
SA "84”
First Registered Owner: Mrs L.H. Waters
Address: West Terrace Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Humberette 5 1/2
March 1908 Vehicle: Humberette 5 1/2
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “83” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for the sum of $1400. In long term ownership and held by a client of historicplates.com.au, this plate is part of a top collection of historic plates.
A brief note on the early history of plates SA “85" through to SA “90”, c.1906
Our rare original records list these five historic numbers as being registered to The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage and they are notated as being “Trade Numbers”. The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage address is listed as Hindmarsh Square in the city, and being trade plates these numbers would have been on many different cars throughout this period.
SA "85”
First Registered Owner: The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage
Address: Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Trade Number
March 1908 Vehicle: Trade Number
Rights Sold: Unknown- this is one of the few 2-digits we have recorded as “unknown”. The rights were not offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and we are unaware that they have been obtained post this event. We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “85” to fill in the details on the history of this plate.
SA "86”
First Registered Owner: The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage
Address: Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Trade Number
March 1908 Vehicle: Trade Number
Rights Sold: Yes. Offered at the First SA Government Historic Plate tender, one of three 2-digit plates offered in September 1991 (the others being SA “15” and SA “30”)
See the original 1991 Government Tender advertisement here:
http://www.historicplates.com.au/sa-historic-plate-tenders-and-auctions-1991-2010
This plate amazingly did not sell at this tender as it did not reach the set reserve price (SA "15" and SA "30" did sell via the tender), and was subsequently offered at the fixed price of $5000 to anyone who enquired over the counter at the Department of Motor Registration in Wakefield St. We hold some old paperwork with a list of the available plates at this time, and SA "86" is at the top of it. The plate subsequently sold and was acquired by an investor known to us.
SA "87”
First Registered Owner: The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage
Address: Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Trade Number
March 1908 Vehicle: Trade Number
Rights Sold: Yes. Sold at 1985’s The Great Plate Auction for $1200. Purchased in 1985 by a clever early investor along with SA “82” the plate was in long term family ownership and was sold by us for $94,500 plus fees at The Great Plate Auction 2011. We auctioned SA “82” and SA “87” on behalf of this family and achieved record results on their behalf at this highly successful live auction event, where the plate was purchased as an investment by an astute existing 2-digit owner.
SA "88”
First Registered Owner: The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage
Address: Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Trade Number
March 1908 Vehicle: Trade Number
Rights Sold: Unknown. This is one of the few 2-digits we have recorded as “unknown”. The rights were not offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and we are unaware that they have been obtained post this event. We are undertaking some further research into the whereabouts of this excellent repeating digit plate. We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “88” to fill in the details on the history of this plate.
SA "89”
First Registered Owner: The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage
Address: Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Trade Number
March 1908 Vehicle: Trade Number
Rights Sold: Yes, sold at the 1985 Great Plate Auction for the sum of $1200, one of the bargains of the day. In long term ownership and most recently registered on a BMW 4WD.
SA "90”
First Registered Owner: The Adelaide Motor Works and Garage
Address: Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: Trade Number
March 1908 Vehicle: Trade Number
Rights Sold: Yes, sold at the 1985 Great Plate Auction for the sum of $1600, this plate has been in long term ownership by an investor known to us here at historicplates.com.au; over the years it has graced a number of very exotic vehicles.
SA "91”
First Registered Owner: F.L. Lillecrap
Address: College Park
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 8
March 1908 Vehicle: Argyll 12/14
Rights Sold: Unknown, this is another of the few 2-digits we have recorded as “unknown”. The rights were not offered at the 1985 Great Plate Auction and we are unaware if they have been obtained post this event.
Our rare old records note the last know address of this plate, listing SA "91" with an owner at an eastern suburbs residential address in 1965, however we will refrain from publishing this information here.
We’d like to hear from the registered owners of SA “91” to fill in the details on the history of this plate.
SA "92”
First Registered Owner: Dr. M. Von Lukowitz
Address: North Terrace
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 8
March 1908 Vehicle: De Dion 8
Rights Sold: Yes, sold at the 1985 Great Plate Auction for $1200. In long term ownership by an investor known to us here at historicplates.com.au.
SA "93”
First Registered Owner: A. Hewitt
Address: Glen Osmond
March 1907 Vehicle: Oldsmobile 7
March 1908 Vehicle: not recorded
Rights Sold: Yes, sold at the 1985 Great Plate Auction for $1400. In long term ownership.
SA "94”
First Registered Owner: Dr. C. Bollen
Address: Woodville
March 1907 Vehicle: Cov. Humber 10
March 1908 Vehicle: Cov. Humber 10
Rights Sold: Yes, this historic plate headlined the third and final SA Government plate tender held in April 1994, where it was advertised & offered with SA “900”, which we at historicplates.com.au have just sold for a record price.
See the 1994 tender advertisement here:
http://www.historicplates.com.au/sa-historic-plate-tenders-and-auctions-1991-2010
Subsequent to this offering it has been acquired by a long term investor & plate enthusiast known to us and is most recently registered on a brilliant looking black Bentley Continental.
SA "95”
First Registered Owner: F. Humphries & Son
Address: Carrington St.
March 1907 Vehicle: Darracq 8
March 1908 Vehicle: Talbot 10/12
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “95” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for the sum of $1500. In long term ownership and held by a client of historicplates.com.au, this plate has most recently been registered on the first AMG SLS Gullwing to arrive in SA.
SA "96”
First Registered Owner: G.W. Trott
Address: Medindie
March 1907 Vehicle: Argyll 16/20
March 1908 Vehicle: Argyll 16/20
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “96” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985 for the sum of $1600. In long term ownership and held by an owner know to historicplates.com.au, this plate is part of a collection that includes some of the best Historic Plates issued.
SA "97”
First Registered Owner: Dr A.H. Gault
Address: Lower Mitcham
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 8
March 1908 Vehicle: Humber 10/12
Rights Sold: No. We understand that the rights to SA “97” have not been sold, as the number is currently registered on an old single axle trailer. In the early day’s of plates three classes of vehicles were registered in the same numbers and we understand that this trailer has had the number registered to it for years.
Whilst it continues to be registered it can continue to display this fine, low number. Amazing.
The plate was registered on 4.12.64 to a 48.9 h.p. Dodge in the name of the Government Motor Garage, and then in 1965 on 18th Nov another new 48.9 h.p. Dodge was registered in SA "97".
This would be the last vehicle that was registered in the historic number prior to the advent of Alpha-Numeric plates in 1966.
SA "98”
First Registered Owner: W.H.R. Porter
Address: Mill Terrace (North Adelaide)
March 1907 Vehicle: Darracq 8
March 1908 Vehicle: Darracq 8
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “98” were sold subsequent The Great Plate Auction in 1985. In long term ownership by an investor known to historicplates.com.au.
SA "99”
First Registered Owner: Dr. H. S. Newland
Address: North Terrace, Adelaide
March 1907 Vehicle: De Dion 6
March 1908 Vehicle: Humber 10/12
Rights Sold: Yes, the rights to SA “99” were sold at The Great Plate Auction in 1985. Knocked down for $4000, the plate was sold for the second highest price for a 2-digit on the day, second to the $4500 that was paid for SA “14”. This plate subsequently changed hands a few times until it was acquired by the present owner, known to us at historicplates.com.au.
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That’s it, the end of SA Historic Plate Register Project covering the 2-digit SA historic plates. Thanks for your interest and for reading this far.....feel free to add any information to that above, it would be greatly appreciated.
We are now undertaking the work on completing the SA Historic Plate Register Project for the next series of plates, covering SA “100” to SA “150”.
Do send us any additional anecdotes, tales, information and especially pictures that you have to contribute to The Project.
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