what year is tiy registration?

whelan1

looking at a vintage lorry with tiy registration on plate, how do you find out the year, thanks

aidhan

Nov '73 - Mar. '74 Co. Louth.

rugbyman

the TIY reg could well be a lorry that was imported in 73 /74. it would not indicate the age of the truck.
In those years many many trucks were imported under a "break into pieces and reassemble " rule. Very few ,if any ,got broken down ,,the same chassis were were imported hundreds of times and hey presto a lorry would emerge some weeks later.
if you mentioned the make and model, I may be able to guess for you.

Regards ,Rugbyman


One legitimate assembler of trucks was CRV in Dundalk who assembled AECs.

whelan1

rugbyman wrote: »

the TIY reg could well be a lorry that was imported in 73 /74. it would not indicate the age of the truck.
In those years many many trucks were imported under a "break into pieces and reassemble " rule. Very few ,if any ,got broken down ,,the same chassis were were imported hundreds of times and hey presto a lorry would emerge some weeks later.
if you mentioned the make and model, I may be able to guess for you.

Regards ,Rugbyman


One legitimate assembler of trucks was CRV in Dundalk who assembled AECs.

thanks its an aec mandator...

WDB123

IZV 24 ? YEAR

bijapos

AZV 1 to YZV 999 (Mar 1985 - Jan 1986).

Theres a full list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ireland

carchaeologist

WDB123 wrote: »

IZV 24 ? YEAR

Tis a beige Fiat Regatta( which are as good as extinct now) registered in May 1985 in Dublin City.

rugbyman

whelan1 wrote: »

thanks its an aec mandator...

new AECs were assembled in Commercial Road Vehicles(CRV), itself situated in the old GNR works.
one of the earliest of the "tilt cabs" was in 1967, I remember a cattle truck ,painted up for Gerry Treanor, ,I am fairly sure it was EIY 200. i was a schoolboy then , though I later drove trucks I dont recall it on the road.
AECs and Mercedes were perhaps the only new vehicles assembled then, Hino which was to dominate the Irish market for years had yet to emerge. Scania and volvo had not appeared either.

i note you are in Louth. as i am, the early years of haulage were very much linked with AECs in this county.

that truck The TIY AEC would be of considerable interest and value today

Regards ,Rugbyman

bijapos

carchaeologist wrote: »

Tis a beige Fiat Regatta( which are as good as extinct now) registered in May 1985 in Dublin City.

So was MZV 565!

It had an excellent Blaupunkt radio, but the gearbox felt like a rubber stick in a box of rubber bits. I learnt to drive in that car, it was hard to find first directly, it was easier to put it into second and push forward into first, a habit I never got out of and that I have to this day over 20 years later .

whelan1

hi rugbyman , my husband also has one of very few mandator v8's in the country its a 1968 model , you probably know it

rugbyman

Whelan1 (who we now know to be Madame Whelan)

cannot say i know of it and only vaguely knew of their existence, sounds interesting.

Rugbyman