Factory registered car in Edinburgh

I thought XC only meant registered by a dealer in that area,and not always by or for the factory for road test or other use!?
 
DaveHerns said:
Us XC owners are grateful for all the hype !
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I'd be interested to know ?-XC, for no other reason than my first one was XXC, which was factory registered for the first couple of years of its life and I'm just curious.
 
harveyp6 said:
DaveHerns said:
Us XC owners are grateful for all the hype !
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I'd be interested to know ?-XC, for no other reason than my first one was XXC, which was factory registered for the first couple of years of its life and I'm just curious.
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'XC' was Solihull Vehicle Registration Office's plate for ten years, 1964-1974.

The first 'XC's are on a 'B' registration, the last on an 'N'.

After that the 'factory' cars were registered either at Longbridge or at Coventry, and are much more difficult to identify initially.

Rover did register most of their company vehicles at Solihull VRO, but also surrounding dealers who had no direct connection to Rover did - there are quite a lot of MG's and Triumphs about wearing 'XC' plates.

I know of at least one case of a well known but shall be anonymous old Rover head selling a Three Thousand Five with 'XC' plates to another well known Rover head as it was apparently a 'director's car'....on later research it turned out to have been registered by a local garage and the car had no direct factory connection.
 
Going back to the ad, I would want to get the sill covers off that car for inspection - given the mention of rot in foot wells and the pic of the n/s lower D post.
 
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