Special Saloon/Super Saloon Register

[Graham Phillips]

Thanks for that, Gerry.
I've got a stack of programmes from back then hidden away somewhere.

I've also got the original number plates off XOO 349F.
I may well have got this wrong, so please correct me if you know the true facts, but if I remember it correctly, the very first racing Escorts were built in Germany and had to be UK registered to be imported in to the UK. They were given the registration numbers XOO 341F to XOO 349F.
All the pictures I have seen of XOO 349F show it with stick on vinyl number plates. The ones I have got are the old flat aluminium reflective plate with the rivet on raised plastic figures.
Steve worked for Broadspeed at one time, so I'm guessing that there was a connection with Ford's competition department and he somehow managed to keep the old aluminium number plates when they were replaced.

I was only a teenager at the time, so I'm a bit hazy on the details.
I'd forgotten that the Anglia started off with a 1300 engine, as that programme shows.
I'd also forgotten the Escort was plain white, as Dan mentions, before it was blue & white.

There's a picture of Steve and his Escort here.
http://www.racing70s.pwp.blueyonder....trobertson.htm