Royal Automobile Club 1955 - 1961 MCC Full Members Badge

Royal Automobile Club MCC Full Members Badge. 149 mm (5.9") tall. First of the Elizabethan Full Members Badges introduced in 1955. Constructed by the Central King Edward's head roundel securing the Bakelite type material onto a chrome pressing, secured with a rubber washer and clamping washer on a smoothie pin on the reverse of the roundel. A metal backing plate secured with four alloy rivets securing front and back together. Available in this tang version and side fixing version (MCD type) Not a popular badge because of breaking up of the blue Bakelite. Stamped on the reverse "The Property of the RAC" and "B'ham Medal & Badge Coy Ltd" Change in Crown from the Edwardian Imperial Crown, to the Coronation Crown. Finally withdrawn in 1961.