PMPA items?

Silvera

Does anybody here have any old PMPA (car insurance company) items available?
e.g. old newsletters, stickers, insurance disc holders, etc

thegreatgonzo

Did they become AXA?

filbert the fox

Silvera wrote: »

Does anybody here have any old PMPA (car insurance company) items available?
e.g. old newsletters, stickers, insurance disc holders, etc

Not sure the requirement to display insurance disc existed when the PMPA were around. They did have window stickers though with their logo.

Collapsed in the late '80s I think and we are all paying for it....

L1011

filbert the fox wrote: »

Not sure the requirement to display insurance disc existed when the PMPA were around. They did have window stickers though with their logo.

Definitely did. 1984 is when it came in; PMPA existed until the mid 1990s (post bankrupcy and reorganisation)

They also had an affiliated garage network so there'll be dealership stickers around.

darkdubh

I have vague memories of a TV or radio ad for them that went P.M.P.A to the tune of Y.M.C.A. by The Village People.

L1011

darkdubh wrote: »

I have vague memories of a TV or radio ad for them that went P.M.P.A to the tune of Y.M.C.A. by The Village People.

"People stay with PMPA", I think.

seamus

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Did they become AXA?

I think so. I still recall PMPA's logo was an owl and part of the gimmick was that the phone number was <some prefix> 28 28 20 - or "Two-whit two-whit two-woo", like an owl.

AXA still have this number, 1890 28 28 20.

Atlantic Dawn

Blast from the past...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_lCnxncGs

filbert the fox

L1011 wrote: »

Definitely did. 1984 is when it came in; PMPA existed until the mid 1990s (post bankrupcy and reorganisation)

They also had an affiliated garage network so there'll be dealership stickers around.

and an official wing

"The Private Motorists Providence Society" or something......splitters!

L1011

seamus wrote: »

I think so. I still recall PMPA's logo was an owl and part of the gimmick was that the phone number was <some prefix> 28 28 20 - or "Two-whit two-whit two-woo", like an owl.

AXA still have this number, 1890 28 28 20.

Guardian Direct were Axa's predecessor and used 282820 everywhere; I believe they bought PMPA during one of its financial cockups.

Last year I was doing some work in an insurance brokers in south Dublin. The place looked like it hadn't been touched since the 70s and there were a few PMPA stickers knocking about, among several other defunct insurance companies!