Personalised reg saddo plebscum

[cms206]

(A)FM would have been local to me so would hazard a guess the National is ex-Crosville.

 

 

T'was indeed, one of fifteen new to dual door spec for the Runcorn Busway. Bastardised beyond belief now, but when it was re-registered at Pilkingtons of Accrington it appears they didn't try to sell the plate on, and it's certainly not carried by anything now that I can find. Of the original fifteen (AFM 1-5W, FCA 6-10X and NTU 11-15Y) 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 were all re-registered, 1, 5, 6, 8 and 9 were rebodied and of the remainder AFM 1W is on a 2009 Panda, AFM 5W is on a 2008 Corsa, FCA 7X is on a 2010 Merc SL300 and NTU 11Y is on a 2009 Yamaha XJR1300.

 

As an aside 7891 FM is now on a 1982 Mercedes 500 SL auto, 795 XTU doesn't appear on the database.

[Cavcraft]

Ah, nice one. Still recall Crosville and Chester City Transport having loads of vehicles with single number registrations as well as fleet numbers to match reg numbers and often wondered if they had some sort of deal going with the DVLA.

[chaseracer]

...fleet numbers to match reg numbers...

Seem to recall Tyneside PTE doing this in the mid-80s when I was a student in Newcastle, but alcohol and the passage of time may have had an effect there.

[Richard]

Fife Scottish did it too. I think the fleet numbers might have been chosen to match the registration number, rather than the other way around.

[sporty-shite]

Only people who know Mr and Mrs SS will have any clue that FR54 NCE has any relation to their surname

That's the point. I'm not arsed what strangers, or even friends, think. I like it, and Mrs S likes it. That's what matters. At a glance, you can see France*, and that's all I wanted.

I'm not in the least bothered by it, but it seems to me you've just paid £whatever to make your 2006 Alfa look a couple of years older than it is.

 

Again, don't really care if anyone thinks the car might be older than it is. Me and Mrs like the plate, and we're not into keeping up with the Jones's

 

A bit like Trig's plate, ours is significant to us, and we know that. If anyone else doesn't, that's not our problem.

 

*rhyme unintended!

[cms206]

Fife Scottish did it too. I think the fleet numbers might have been chosen to match the registration number, rather than the other way around.

 

It was actually a case of getting registration numbers to match fleetnumbers; many municipals did it, as did some independants who used registrations as fleetnumbers, including A1 Service for a spell in the 70s. This was practice for some until very recently, including the bods at Lothian who were still matching regos to fleetnumbers.

 

As an example from my local operator of the time, Western Scottish's fleetnumbers reset to 1 after reaching the end of the S2933-S2984 batch (DSD 933-984V, oddly enough!)... the batches delivered new thereafter were...

 

L30-L69 - GCS 30-69V (Leyland Leopard/Alexander)

R70-R89 - HSD 70-89V (Leyland Fleetline/Alexander)

A90-A113 - KSD 90-113W (Ailsa B55-10 Mk2/Alexander)

V114-V124 - NCS 114-125W (Volvo B10M/Duple)

V126-V131 - GGE 126-131X (Volvo B10M/Duple)

L132-L135 - SSJ 132-135Y (Leyland Tiger/Duple)

D136-D147 - GSB 136-147Y (Dennis Dominator/Alexander)

V148-V151 - TSD 148-151Y (Volvo B10M/Plaxton)

N152-N159 - TSD 152-159Y (Dennis Dorchester/Plaxton)

M160-M162 - A160-162 TGE (MCW Metroliner)

L163-L166 - A163-166 TGE (Leyland Royal Tiger [163/164], Leyland Tiger/Duple [165/166])

L167-L186 - A167-186 UGB (Leyland Tiger/Plaxton)

V187-V198 - B187-198 CGA (Volvo B10M/Plaxton)

N199-N204 - B199-204 CGA (Dennis Dorchester/Plaxton)

 

Lots of mixed rego series, but always in sequential as delivered order. IIRC this continued until around 1989 when Clydeside and Western re-merged, but it certainly continued as high as V267 (Volvo Citybus E867 RCS).

 

 

(/spotter)

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The current Mrs. Ash has a DB7

 

What year is it? I used to work at Bloxham where they built those.

 

 

In the plate stash I have TAN42M and TAN43M, MJL8Y, D44FYL (Tidy, see) and 90SPY.

[Lord Sterling]

Spotted this today, I guess its the plate its was originally issued with. There used to be a Jag XJ6 with a similarly private plate, thats now moved up the road.

 

 

The vehicle details for YNV 3 are:

 

Date of Liability: 01 12 1989

Date of First Registration: 01 05 1961

Year of Manufacture: 1961

Cylinder Capacity (cc): 948CC

Fuel Type: Petrol

Export Marker: Not Applicable

Vehicle Status: Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour: BROWN

 

I wonder where its been all that time!

[Pete-M]

Spotted this today, I guess its the plate its was originally issued with. There used to be a Jag XJ6 with a similarly private plate, thats now moved up the road.

 

The vehicle details for YNV 3 are:

 

Date of Liability: 01 12 1989

 

I wonder where its been all that time!

 

I suspect it has survived purely because of the reg. Not a particularly valuable plate, but it's worth more than the Herald.

[RedSparrow]

That Herald looks fairly sound from the pictures. Old fellas long term retirement project maybe?

[HillmanImp]

My Dad got his Xantia with a private plate with his initials on it 'N4 RSR'. All well and good until you point out that if you say ar-s-ar it sounds like 'arser' which whatever kind of spin you try putting on it is a bit gay....

 

He had the last laugh though as he gave the car to me to mince around in for a few years.

 

 

This picture has added arse to go with the number plate.

[Pete-M]

Guilty!

I also own (on retention) KEO 5Y which I took off a Golf Cabriolet I had a couple of years ago. Have half-arsedly tried to sell it at a fraction of it's dealer value of approx £1400 . Which reminds me, I should try harder to move it on, I could buy some proper shite with the money. Mr Keogh, are you listening?

 

KEO5Y was very local to me for a long, long time. Used to see that thing all the time.

 

I had a Mk2 Granada Ghia X Exec with B6 WFC on (previous owner was a Bolton Wanderers fan). That went to the banger boys, complete with plate. It was a carb one, so no loss.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I have noticed that Jaguar in the BL years used to register press cars with number plates which echoed past glories. Here is an example, but there were losts of them like this. I wonder if any of the other tentacles of Leyland did the same?

 

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I don't think OKV3T was a real number plate. It's an early Series 3 though. I had a white 3.4 with red leather, BOF675T that a scumbag had off me to repair and then vanished down to North Devon with. Never saw it again.

[AXrescuer]

My Dad got his Xantia with a private plate with his initials on it 'N4 RSR'. All well and good until you point out that if you say ar-s-ar it sounds like 'arser' which whatever kind of spin you try putting on it is a bit gay....

 

He had the last laugh though as he gave the car to me to mince around in for a few years.

 

 

This picture has added arse to go with the number plate.

 

You could at a stretch say that N4 RSR stood for enforcer!

[sporty-shite]

Guilty!

I also own (on retention) KEO 5Y which I took off a Golf Cabriolet I had a couple of years ago. Have half-arsedly tried to sell it at a fraction of it's dealer value of approx £1400 . Which reminds me, I should try harder to move it on, I could buy some proper shite with the money. Mr Keogh, are you listening?

 

KEO5Y was very local to me for a long, long time. Used to see that thing all the time.

 

 

Yes, Pete, previous owner for something like 14 years was a Liverpool guy. Always wondered whether there was any significance in the reg, as it bore no resemblance to previous owners name, but had had the plates made with no gap, as if it meant something. Who knows??

[Guest]

Go on then. Someone tell me why a plate like Mr France's would be worth something. I R INTRIGUED.

 

(Incidentally, I still think KYO 5D is worthless, but if you give me £87,000,000 I might think about letting it go on a BMW for that GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY YOU FUCKING PEASANT OUTSIDE LANE look).

 

Also, KYO 1D is a yellow Mk 2 Jaguar. The rest of the single digit 'KYO xDs' don't come up on the computer. Most of the tens and hundreds belong to BSA motorbikes issued at weird intervals.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

 

M3 CYA, that's quite a nifty numberplate.

 

The vehicle M3CYA, a Bmw M3 (Convertible), is on our database.

 

How strange, this one isn't a convertible, it also has something funny going on with the 'C'.

 

The vehicle M3GYA, a Bmw M3 (Coupe), is on our database.

 

Ah

[stephend]

Spotted this today, I guess its the plate its was originally issued with. There used to be a Jag XJ6 with a similarly private plate, thats now moved up the road.

 

 

 

 

I wonder where its been all that time!

 

mmm herald, is it for sale do you know?

[Tonka]

I still have T13NKA on retention, haven't owned anything new enough to put it on for a while and can't afford the £10k for 70NKA.........

[Futuramic]

The best of the Essex plates DEV1l was never issued on the grounds it may be offensive. My arse.

 

However I did see a modern car with a "POO" suffix on recently. They stopped issuing those along with "LOO" and other things you really wouldn't want on a plate years ago so god knows why you'd have it as a transfer. Maybe he was a sewage engineer?

 

Interestingly "KKK" plates were in circulation up until the end of the proper reg series in 1999. The transfer places sell them. I looked it up after seeing one with a friend and discussing it. They aren't expensive.

 

I once owned H23CKP. Thought nothing of it at the time; but might have been a dealer demonstrator or something.

[Pete-M]

Heh, time for some Ford Geekery.

 

Roger Clark won the RAC Rally in '76 driving POO 505R.

 

[Lord Sterling]

mmm herald, is it for sale do you know?

 

I'm afraid I dont know, I will knock the door next time I pass though.

 

The best of the Essex plates DEV1l was never issued on the grounds it may be offensive. My arse.

 

Reminds me of YEV1L is quite popular on Lamborginis, owned by H.R. Owens (London Lamborgini dealer)

 

Re, Ford Essex numbers, I'm sure I've seen B800HOO on an Escort Rally car or was I dreaming this?

[Guest]

Heh, time for some Ford Geekery.

 

Roger Clark won the RAC Rally in '76 driving POO 505R.

 

 

And POO 347R was a brown (!) Renault 5 owned by my uncle. Commenting upon its reliability, he recalled it was 'shit' without hesitation.

Not for nothing was it referred to as the 'poo car' throughout the household.....

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Heh, time for some Ford Geekery.

 

Roger Clark won the RAC Rally in '76 driving POO 505R.

 

 

I had a Shellsport 1600 Sport, SOO750R. Became a rally car, and was rallied to buggery. But hey, it was a Boreham 'Scort and I had it! It was absolute rubbish though.

 

I like KYO5D - it's easy on the eye. Would look nice on a classic '66 motor - Cooper S, Lotus Cortina, E Type etc.

[maxpower]

i sold a renault 18 with reg plate LYB 12V many years ago... the guy took the plate and scrapped the car

 

cheap £150 plate i guess

[Angrydicky]

I've seen a few POO's, and LOO'S, and MOOS. The BOO***W and BOO***X series seemed to be exclusively used by Continental Cars Ltd, Leigh on Sea on Volvo 240/244's, and they were almost always beige.

 

The GOO series ie. H***GOO seemed to be exclusively used by Currie Motors Ltd on new Peugeots and Talbots.

 

There was an Aston DB2 rotting in a driveway a few doors down from me until about a week ago when it disappeared (there's a thread on Pistonheads about it). Reg was UUS 8.

 

There also used to be a Wolseley 1500 in Rochford with the nice registration YRR 15. I went past there one day and there it was, complete with brand new numberplates "678 XUL". Bastards.

[eddyramrod]

That KYO5D should be on something American from about 1966, like a Lincoln Continental; then it would look like it came from Cliff Davis Cars new. A lot of American cars that came to the UK new were given short plates like that, as you could get the whole thing on one line, with standard size letters, and it was legible. The main reason I tried to resurrect 1108 ED (apart from it being my name!) was that I was driving American cars, and it would have fitted perfectly on any of them.

When we arrived in Cyprus this was one of the cars I looked at with a view to buying; I so nearly did too! It's still available, still parked in the school car park... but look at the plate! ED 817! To get my name or initials here I really will have to buy a whole car... assuming I want to.

[ayd]

apologies for my ugly mug int his pic but GUILTY as charged.

 

Bought for me as a pressie years ago for the grand sum of £250 inc transfer and I'll never have to remember another reg as long as I live

 

 

I do remember quite a while ago a local bloke who was wealthy and loved his BMW's had a fleet of them all with reg's along the lines of A325 BMW, A320 BMW, A635 BMW etc...

[trigger]

I used to see a Ford Scorpio with the number plate 'F1' a lot near my mums in Essex, it was on a Granada before that.