Looking up a reg numbers details

[michael1703]

Is there a way of.... looking up a reg number and finding if it is currently attached to a vehicle?

 

Ive used the Doovla vehicle check, but that requires you to know what make of vehicle it might now be attached to

 

 

Scenario is as follows..... A vehicle on Ebay thats been off the road for 30 or more years has a very nice reg plate, not quite JAG 1 but something worth a few quid.

 

I'd like to buy the basket case vehicle and invest cash in it, keep it and use it daily, I dont have the £3k spare but if the plate that currently lives on it can be sold and an age related plate fitted it will be a vehicle that will owe me nothing

 

Any ideas how I could find whether the plate still belongs to the said vee hickle?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

tyre-shopper.co.uk reg search will tell you the make and model any reg number is attached to.

[HMC]

Another alternative is to go on the TFL congestion charge site. If youn click pay without registering you can tap in any reg and if its attached to a car it will giive you meke model and colour. When I was ill in bed and pretty bored I put in a few pricey combinations and most seemed to be attached to AMG mercs or high end BMWs. I'll get my coat.....

[keef]

Is there a way of.... looking up a reg number and finding if it is currently attached to a vehicle?

 

https://www.cartell.ie/ssl/servlet/begi ... ation=jag1

[lovejoy]

Keef, my man, you are aware, aren't you, that you will never be able to transfer that "number" (K33EEF? ) unless you get the said vehicle

 

MOT'd and taxed, and if it's stood for 30 yrs, it may be an uphill task..... (unless you have another, identical vehicle.... say no more)

[scaryoldcortina]

If I'm reading it right, you know the make/model but it's been off the road so long DVLA have no record. This means that even if the plate hasn't been sold and they allow you to keep it on the car it will be non-transferrable.

 

Sorry.

[keef]

you are aware, aren't you, that you will never be able to transfer that "number"

 

What a pity!

 

I'll just have to make do with :-

 

https://www.cartell.ie/ssl/servlet/begi ... ation=jag2

 

[michael1703]

If I'm reading it right, you know the make/model but it's been off the road so long DVLA have no record. This means that even if the plate hasn't been sold and they allow you to keep it on the car it will be non-transferrable.

 

Sorry.

 

Thats the thing, I understood you could transfer it if you had the buff logbook, but this vehicl has no paperwork and I would have to apply for the logbook

 

According to cartell and tyre check site it isnt attached to anything.

 

I bought a moped a couple of years ago for £20, the reg number was GD3 and I thought it might be worth a few quid but unfortunately it was transferred to an Audi some time previous

[scaryoldcortina]

You just can't, even with a buff book. If the reg isn't on the computer you can only have it back non-transferable

[Mash]

On a similar note, is there a website where you can find out where and in what year a series of numbers was issued so you can date a pre-suffix registered vehicle, say one that is in the Look at Life films for instance?

[eddyramrod]

Don't know about a website but there's certainly a book, and I have it! "Car Numbers" by Noel Woodall, 1974. I believe there may be later editions about too, which will probably have the same information, but certainly the 74 book tells you when combinations were issued, to the month and year. It also tells you where.

[keef]

It also tells you where.

 

This site does the where.

 

http://www.wolfbane.com/vreg.htm

 

Edit: How about this one? :-

 

http://www.numberplates.com/issued.aspx

[Lord Sterling]

To find out what reg belongs to what vehicle I use the RAC Same as Cartell.ie to be honest.

 

Regarding where the vehicle a plate has was first registered I use: http://www.motorcycle.co.uk/reference-m ... tters.aspx

[lovejoy]

Don't know about a website but there's certainly a book, and I have it! "Car Numbers" by Noel Woodall, 1974. I believe there may be later editions about too, which will probably have the same information, but certainly the 74 book tells you when combinations were issued, to the month and year. It also tells you where.

 

Eddy, so does" Beeman" Quentin Henderson, the very same book, the A40 guy on Nevis. he is also an active member of "Europlate"...

[michael1703]

you can get some 63/64 cars not registered as an A or B reg, if they are from rural areas they can have still have early 3+3 reg numbers

[eddyramrod]

Ta Lovejoy!

 

Michael, I know: Southport numbers only hit the suffixes on B, missing out A completely. Little-known fact (even within the town, probably): In 1963, Southport was issuing YFY xxx, then YWM xxx, these being the combinations available for the town. They ran out just short of the new year, so a handful of xxx AFY were issued. These were the only reversed combinations issued by the town, and I don't believe they even got to three figures. Then along came 1964 and they could start again at AFY 1B, etc. [/hangs up anorak]

[Dirty Habit]

you can get some 63/64 cars not registered as an A or B reg, if they are from rural areas they can have still have early 3+3 reg numbers

Birmingham is not exactly rural, but they didn't issue "A" and maybe "B". However if you apply for a 1963 age related number, they may allocate AOB***A. They also used the non existent Birmingham A reg as a replacement for even older cars that had their number transferred.

[michael1703]

theres a lot of *SL as re registered cars having their original plates transferred

 

KSL and DSL

 

I believe KSL was Kilmarnock or something similar originally

[kinkersaab]

.....and sk, which is as far as i know shetland, i guess there will be lots of shetland numbers not used so they can issue them now after a plate rape.

[Angrydicky]

SK is Caithness, by 1964 they were still issuing numbers in the SK 1234 sequence. I've got VSK on my A55 (originally PJN 656 - A Southend reg).