Great number plates - got any?

[Metal Guru]

14 hours ago, chancer said:

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Bet it’s got stiff suspension!

[grizz]

When your name is long and complex. 
 

Ask a friend who likes license plates to find you one. 
 

Sometimes not hard. 
 

And going on this car being collected today. 
 

Even got a fancy family crest. 

[DavieW]

I was behind a van belonging to a company called "Nuts Off" who, judging by the wrap on the van, remove seized wheel nuts. 

Anyway, the number on the van was NU15 OFF

[Gompo]

On 01/06/2024 at 06:43, Gompo said:

Not an expensive one, but it makes me smile when I see this around. There's something satisfying about model specific registrations on relatively cheap cars.

 

 

In roughly the same location, I wonder if it's the same owner as the Fourtrak. 

[adw1977]

L99OAT

[bunglebus]

Saw this outside Home Bargains, said to the Mrs "do you think that's Denise?"

It was.

[willswitchengage]

[gm]

[quicksilver]

It's a Deutsch-Bonnet HBR5 (also a candidate for the 'cars you never knew existed thread) and the model name is its legit reg.

 

[bunglebus]

[bunglebus]

I'll overlook the bolt through the D just this once

[bunglebus]

[EyesWeldedShut]

Saw this on a T-something VW, tricked out with all the bells and whistles but I never got a picture. I hate to think how much it cost.

[gm]

what exactly are they offering for your £4490 ? 

[myglaren]

[Shite Ron]

 

I saw this tonight and thought it really is a great numberplate but is on the wrong vehicle.

Sorry about the poor picture it is C6 FAB on a Chelsea tractor,  it should be on an equally reliable car that is more stylish and was made in France obviously.

 

[Peter C]

[inconsistant]

The owner of this must have been close to the front of the queue when they started giving out  number plates:

[Blunderguts]

4 hours ago, inconsistant said:

The owner of this must have been close to the front of the queue when they started giving out  number plates:

Not close to the front. That's a personal plate. Car is left hand drive first registered 2015.  I don't have my book to hand but if that reg is a genuine issue it'll be circa 1963ish.

[Asimo]

Would suit a Bugatti better.

Recently saw 13 US on a ‘60s 23 window VW Bus. Of course the spacing was wrong so it really did look like BUS.

Surprisingly the VW, which had two large roof racks and no ground clearance, zoomed past me on the M4 when I was doing a limit +10% 77mph.

[bunglebus]

29 minutes ago, Blunderguts said:

Not close to the front. That's a personal plate. Car is left hand drive first registered 2015.  I don't have my book to hand but if that reg is a genuine issue it'll be circa 1963ish.

Being as registration numbers started being issued just over 120 years ago, he'd also be old as hell

[Blunderguts]

1 hour ago, Asimo said:

Would suit a Bugatti better.

Personally I think it would look better on what it was originally allocated to (assuming it was issued). The history of the vehicle comes first and the registration number is a huge part of that.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Blunderguts said:

Not close to the front. That's a personal plate. Car is left hand drive first registered 2015.  I don't have my book to hand but if that reg is a genuine issue it'll be circa 1963ish.

I'd say 1910's, a very early reg. Genuine.

[LightBulbFun]

On 29/07/2024 at 13:56, inconsistant said:

The owner of this must have been close to the front of the queue when they started giving out  number plates:

On 29/07/2024 at 18:51, Blunderguts said:

Not close to the front. That's a personal plate. Car is left hand drive first registered 2015.  I don't have my book to hand but if that reg is a genuine issue it'll be circa 1963ish.

On 29/07/2024 at 22:57, High Jetter said:

I'd say 1910's, a very early reg. Genuine.

  xxxxB was never issued in period, note that it is 3 then B, a 1904 registration would be B3 instead  something like 3B will have been sold by the DVLA at auction, and indeed a quick bit tappity tap on the keyboard we can see it was first issued by the DVLA for auction in September 1993

the first reverse format plate to be issued was 1000E in 1953 (this is why the DVLA have 2 sets of pre suffix/prefix "ageless" age related plate series on the go, if your vehicle was registered between 1931-1952 you get an ABC123 style plate, if it was registered 1953-1962 you get 123ABC instead) however only some county councils but not all ever issued their single digit mark in reverse format, (and within those that did some elected to issue their single digit first and others elected to save them till the very end)

[S2000]

Slight HiJack, I have a 1953-1962 style registration, how can I find out the vehicle it was originally assigned to?

[inconsistant]

Bloody hell what a serious backlash to a throw away quip. 
3 is a really low number.
B is close to the front of the alphabet. That’s all. I thought it was a great number plate, I wasn’t claiming to have full knowledge of the history of the car and number plate. 

I would be fairly certain anyone who has ever taken even a passing interest in cars would know that number plates didn’t start with A1, then A2 etc and that there are year and/or location identifiers so plates without those a plate is likely to be a personal one. 

I reckon when they announced they were going to start issuing reg numbers they didn’t  ask everyone who wanted one to form an orderly queue in anticipation either. 

I saw a great plate on an interesting car and posted it with a relevant comment. Thought that was the point of this thread?

 

 

[Blunderguts]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

  xxxxB was never issued in period, note that it is 3 then B, a 1904 registration would be B3 instead  something like 3B will have been sold by the DVLA at auction, and indeed a quick bit tappity tap on the keyboard we can see it was first issued by the DVLA for auction in September 1993

the fist reverse format plate to be issued was 1000E in 1953 (this is why the DVLA have 2 sets of pre suffix/prefix "ageless" age related plate series on the go, if your vehicle was registered between 1931-1952 you get an ABC123 style plate, if it was registered 1953-1962 you get 123ABC instead) however only some county councils but not all ever issued their single digit mark in reverse format, (and within those that did some elected to issue their single digit first and others elected to save them till the very end)

I've seen pre-war vehicles with reverse format age related plates. 

Here's an example from ebay;

Ugly as hell age related plate.

6 hours ago, S2000 said:

Slight HiJack, I have a 1953-1962 style registration, how can I find out the vehicle it was originally assigned to?

Have a look here;

https://kitheadtrust.org.uk/

This gives a list of where reg numbers were issued. The old registration records which survive are usually poor and may give zero information on what kind of vehicle they were issued to. Some only have a name and address others even less than this.  If your reg was transferred in 1977 or later the DVLA will have record. BUT be aware a monumental amount of fraud went on with donor vehicles having multiple identities and used to fraudulently transfer reg numbers. I remember a bike that someone found which had multiple frame numbers all different. The true make and identity of the bike couldn't be found!

One well known instance of fraud was BF1. This was issued to a motorcycle whose history is unknown. What is certain is that by 1920 it no longer existed. It turned up in 1983 just long enough to have the reg transferred before vanishing again.

[reb]

A relic of the days when I actually had disposable income:

[mintwth]

11 hours ago, inconsistant said:

3 is the magic number

FTFY

[LightBulbFun]

On 30/07/2024 at 09:14, inconsistant said:

Bloody hell what a serious backlash to a throw away quip. 
3 is a really low number.
B is close to the front of the alphabet. That’s all. I thought it was a great number plate, I wasn’t claiming to have full knowledge of the history of the car and number plate. 

I would be fairly certain anyone who has ever taken even a passing interest in cars would know that number plates didn’t start with A1, then A2 etc and that there are year and/or location identifiers so plates without those a plate is likely to be a personal one. 

I reckon when they announced they were going to start issuing reg numbers they didn’t  ask everyone who wanted one to form an orderly queue in anticipation either. 

I saw a great plate on an interesting car and posted it with a relevant comment. Thought that was the point of this thread?

in my defence, I am a massive DVLA/Registration number nerd, it was not just your post,  when I saw others also getting confused, I just could not help myself, had to put a post out, before people got even more confused  

although I will point out that number plates did actually start with "A1" and then go to "A2" and so forth, that was London issue 1904, and its often said (although also disputed the same) that  Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell did actually line up and wait to be first inline for that A1 mark, so the whole idea of a "personal plate" rather amusingly goes back right to the very start (which is why I did not initially say anything, sure you got the number format back to front, but the joke was on point ) 

for mainland England and Wales, every local authority etc got issued a letter or 2 letter, mark, and this was issued on an alphabetical order based on population count, so London got Axxxx, all the way down to Rutland who got FPxxxx, and then from that point forward it was a pick and choose/first come first serve basis, so as London ran out of Axxxx they picked up a load of L multiple marks, LA LB LC etc, others just stuck with whatever their original letter was, Surrey got issued Pxxxx, so they then picked up PA-PB-PC-PD-PE-PF-PG-PH-PJ-PK-PL (marks containing I and Z where reserved for Ireland and marks with "S" "V" and "G" where reserved for Scotland) and other authorities just picked marks at Random like Essex, who was initially  allocated "F" and then just chose EV HK NO PU TW VW VX  as and when needed

so even such a short mark as "3B" does include location information of where it was issued if it was issued in period Lancashire in the case of "B"  

 

it was when the last of these 2 digit location markers began to run out in the late 1920's etc, when the 6 digit ABC123 format was introduced, first issued in 1932, this added a serial letter to the start all of the 2 digit location marks (single letter location markers where excluded from this scheme as adding a letter in front of them would of ended up duplicating an existing 2 digit 4 letter mark)

On 30/07/2024 at 13:34, Blunderguts said:

I've seen pre-war vehicles with reverse format age related plates. 

Here's an example from ebay;

indeed for a period of time the DVLA kinda failed to follow their own rules and issued reverse format plates to all cars between 1931-1962, and non-reverse plates to later cars also, thankfully enough people complained to wake the DVLA back up who reverted to issuing age related plates accordingly 

these days if you have such a vehicle like that Austin you can request a more appropriate age related plate from the DVLA if you want to