Story about a key ring

[mcl1959]

Hey mike that's fantastic. They look to be the same as you suggest. It very well could be from a dealership.
Brett, do you know whether this is a possibility for your car?

Ken

[mcl1959]

Mike, I have 5 standard sedans later than yours. They are body numbers 4849, 4884, 4918, 4960 and 4972. The highest chassis number I have for a Melbourne 215 is FC 64091M

Regards. Ken

[detective]

...could Moulded Products Pty Ltd possibly have been a supplier to GMH?...that would be one way they came to have an ex GMH car...if it wasn't entirely new to them in the first place  ??

[mike]

Hi detective

They could well have been a supplier, but I believe that it was purchased new by Moulded Products as I have their rego papers in my records and its in their name from 02/12/1959 to 02/12/1960

Mike

[detective]

...Hi Mike  ..  i just conducted a quick google search and Moulded Products indeed were a supplier to GMH merging with Nylex at some later point in time....

...also, as an aside...a GMH or Dealer registered car was, and still is, not considered to be the first "private" owner so that may be of some consequence in the story of your car....cheers mate

[FCGos]

The logo of Duperite on the back of the key tags may be the key to which company used these.  Duperite was actually a company with a subsidiary called Moulded Plastics.  Duperite was the former name of a  well known Australian brand NYLEX.

Hope this helps, please see link below

Cheers Wayne

http://ianwongresearch.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/duperite-dads-day-1956.html

[detective]

...the name Duperite may also be a throwback to when Dunlop were tied up with Moulded Products earlier on

[mike]

That is interesting, Brett is there anything on the back of your key ring?

Mike

[detective]

...was gonna ask the same thing Mike!.. LOL

[HAD 708]

Hi Guys
The back of my key tag had nothing on it at all ,no hallmark , makers mark etc it is plain metal totally clear. the stamping is quite different as well?? Ken .....Joe Galea said he had a similar tag on his ex police HR Divisional van ?
Brett

[mike]

The brass key tags may have been just an easy identifier of which keys were which and possibly used a fair bit before the advent of the plastic key tags we have now. A lot of people probably threw them away because if that was their only family car they would know what the keys fitted anyway.
So I would guess with my key tags the car would have been a fleet car for duperite/moulded products/nylex and the chap I bought it from never threw anything away, still have all the original papers for insurance, stamp duty and transfers from 1960 onwards. Like Bretts key tag, GMH needed to know what keys fitted what car, imagine going through all the keys if they didn't have a rego number on a tag and same with Joe Galea on his ex police HR Divisional van, imagine an urgent call and having to sort the keys before you could rush out to throw someone in the back of the van.

Mike

[mike]

Hi Ken,

I wonder do those later cars still exist and as an aside this year is pretty special for my 2 cars, my 56 will be 59 and my 59 will be 56, that's never going to happen again.

Mike

[Bessie_3]

G'day Mike,

My FC is a 59 model and I think the original rego was HBY-644 so pretty close to yours. I'd have to check the body number etc, the rego might just mean it was registered later than some others. Derrick

[mcl1959]

Hey Mike, that's is a fascinating play on numbers. Love it.

I checked the data on the 5 cars younger than yours and at the time of recording they were all on the road. I assume they all still are.

Ken