Police Heralds:- Barrow-in-Furness

[Chris Longhurst]

I had an article published in the February 2021 Courier (#488 pp66-67) on Monmouthshire police cars ('panda cars'). After submission of the article to Bern. last year I found a link to another batch of Police Herald 1200s belonging to the Barrow-in-Furness Borough police force. They are similar to the Monmouthshire cars but with a slightly different shape to the roof boxes.

I've been trying to figure our the registrations of the cars. The picture on the site only downloads as is only 9 kbs so detail is poor; looking at the picture on the website & enlarging the picture on my monitor the registration of the right hand-side car looks like a 'F' reg (may be FED 7?7F). I wonder if anyone with better eyes (or technology) can read them!

https://british-police-history.uk/f/barrow-in-furness-borough

Thanks - Chris (78/00350)

[JohnD]

How's this, Chris, or is it the source you found?

https://british-police-history.uk/f/barrow-in-furness-borough

The picture is displayed as part of a webpage, and I can't download it into image manipulating software, to magnify it, but naked eye, the numbers look to go up to "FED787F" so from "783"

Someone had a GSoH, labelling them the 'Feds'!

John

[Colin Lindsay]

GKV17D seems to be popular, you can buy a jigsaw puzzle of it...

[Chris Longhurst]

53 minutes ago, JohnD said:

How's this, Chris, or is it the source you found?

https://british-police-history.uk/f/barrow-in-furness-borough

The picture is displayed as part of a webpage, and I can't download it into image manipulating software, to magnify it, but naked eye, the numbers look to go up to "FED787F" so from "783"

Someone had a GSoH, labelling them the 'Feds'!

John

Thanks John - that's the correct link. The letters could be FEO as EO was used in Barrow-in-Furness (ha - just thought of looking that up!) & F is a  possible prefix in 1967 (when the F year letter was in use).

Chris

[Chris Longhurst]

46 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said:

GKV17D seems to be popular, you can buy a jigsaw puzzle of it...

Yes - that & it's alter ego CFH 217B seem to dominate Google searches.

Another one that comes up is VAA 379H which is sometimes listed as a Belfast car. Any idea if it was a genuine N.Irish car?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-triumph-herald-police-car-from-1959-59190578.html

[Colin Lindsay]

2 minutes ago, Chris Longhurst said:

Yes - that & it's alter ego CFH 217B seem to dominate Google searches.

Another one that comes up is VAA 379H which is sometimes listed as a Belfast car. Any idea if it was a genuine N.Irish car?

I've a photo of that one taken some years back at a local show but it was never a local car, nor a local Police vehicle - the RUC used mostly Fords (although they did have TR6 'Q' cars.) Must have a quick rummage for that photo... got it: