"AA Badge" Impact of Morris Minor on the upcoming breed of Transporters
"Morris Minor 1000 brought a culture with it & it’s still alive. Most common of them is AA Badge on the grill, GB stickers on the rear screen which you can notice on every 2 cab of the current era as well. It had 4 doors (unlike Beetle - the good reason why beetles are not used as cabs :)), much lighter & smaller as compared to American cars of the era & was much more economical, hence gained its popularity for the commercial use as cabs. Datsun 1200 successor of Morris & Suzuki IFX was successor of Datsun 1200 & now Suzuki Mehran has taken that place and with an over million productions I dont see successor of Mehran in my life-cycle 
Original AA Badge is a collectable item & does have good value, even in our local market one can get the original version & it costs 1500-2000 (which is inexpensive as compared to it prices in UK), the local fabricated variants are priced @ PKR 200-500. Few cab driver write “R”, “A”, “K” & there are also some other badges available in the market & used specifically on cabs, on doing some research I found that they came from Japan!
Some History from Web
It is not uncommon to see old cars sporting even older AA badges on the radiator grill or for the badges to turn up when clearing the piles of boxes from old garages. Each badge has a history.
2006 was the 100th year of Automobile Association (AA) car badges, the first ones being issued to members way back in 1906, when motoring was very much in its infancy.
The very earliest AA Patrols were often called upon to give verbal advice and directions. Paper routes were introduced in 1912, responding to member demand arising from a general lack of signposts to give directions on the country's roads, AA badge cars also received support on highways once the car is broken down – type of insurance
How to date an AA badge: Badges are stamped up with issue numbers on them, the table below gives an indication of when a particular badge was sent out:
1 to 999,999 – 1906-30
A-P suffixes – 1930-45
RST suffixes – 1946-56 (Flat motorcycle badges)
WXYZA suffixes – 1956-67 (Domed motorcycle badges)
OA to OZ prefixes – 1945-57
1A-9A prefix – 1957-59
1B-9B prefix – 1960-61
1C-9C prefix – 1962-63
1D-9D prefix – 1964-65
1E-9E prefix – 1966-67
The badge in the photograph above therefore dates to sometime between 1962 - 1963, being a 4C coded example. The most common AA badges still in circulation, and most likely to be fitted to a badge bar on a classic car, are the domed examples, which first came out in 1945. Owners of cars built from 1967 onwards should really look out for the later square badges, if they want to be 100% accurate. Following are few other variants:
