Tax Disc

[Rob Neal]

Bit of a left field question this but does anyone happen to know, or where I can find out, the cost of a 12 months road tax for a bike in 1962?  I'm adding a replica disc to my BSA 650 restoration project and want to fill in the details on it but can't find the info anywhere on the 'net.  Although I was around in 1962 I certainly wasn't buying tax discs back then .  I would have been 6 years old, since you ask!!!!

[JulianS]

Have you seen this? Dont know how accurate it is.

http://www.creativetaxdiscs.co.uk/page26.html

[Rob Neal]

No I missed that somehow.  Thanks, I can now fill out the disc and add it to the bike. 

[mo goldie]

Thanks Julian

That helped me out to as I was just guessing with all my bikes........ Now I have more of a rough Idea of what they should be more like

[Rob Neal]

Thanks to Julian i found out that the tax for an over 250cc bike in 1962 was £4-10s-0d.  Doesn't sound much but in todays' money that's about £120. Not a lot different to current rates.

[Mike Farmer]

 

1962 I got about £7.00 per week. But I think then you could tax for 3 or 4 months at a time. So I could afford it most of the time. I seem to recall that I taxed for 3 months then missed a month then repeated. I must have been seriously younger. I think I had a 350 Ariel

Mike

[yosemite]

You could also go the classic  note instead of a tax disc, mine say tax in post, with post crossed out and computer written underneath.

[Rob Neal]

  I like that idea!