Thank you Peter and Robin for your kind words - much appreciated.
In the photograph, the car is displaying its Rhodesian/Zimbabwean registration number, but what is not obvious is that hidden beneath the adhesive number plate are two others! When the car was first registered at the end of October, 1968, I think I'm right in saying that it was AFN's practice at that time to fit adhesive front number plates to new cars. Six months later, when the car changed hands, the second owner re-registered the car with his own 'personal' number and the new adhesive registration plate was positioned directly over the existing number plate. Fast forward to 1973 - the car is in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the car acquired its third registration number and a new adhesive registration plate was placed over the other two number plates. Two years later I bought the car, by which time of course, it was already displaying its Rhodesian/Zimbabwean registration plates. From this description it would seem that the car, bearing three adhesive number plates stuck on top of each other, would have looked appalling. But so accurately and carefully had they been positioned that nobody ever realised that beneath the yellow Rhodesian/Zimbabwean number plate, there were two British plates. On returning the car to the UK, naturally another re-registration was necessary, and after negotiations with the DVLA, the car was re-united with its original British registration number. The old registration plates were all removed and replaced by a new adhesive plate, and not a single hole had ever been drilled!
Arfor.