License plate, Symbol other than GB/EU, Is this allowed?

License plate, Symbol other than GB/EU, Is this allowed?

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Raman Kandola

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221 posts

122 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Hi I've just purchased a private plate and was looking at the rules.I know about the spacing and how letters cant be altered etc

Now i was thinking about putting a symbol on the left side of the plate . Its says on Gov.Uk Website that you can only have GB or EU or a national flag at the left hand side of the plate. However I have seen numerous cars with a manufacturers logo there. Are these cars breaking the law or is just seen as acceptable if its a manufacturers logo?

Any clarity would help, thanks

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Raman Kandola said:
Are these cars breaking the law
Yes.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Top tip: If you are mad keen for people to know what type of car you're driving, why not buy a car that has the type of car that it is indicated on it by logo badges and/or lettering? In other words, any car.

Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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It's a number plate. A number plate.

License plates are American.


anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Indeed, as is the noun "license".

MGZTV8

591 posts

148 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Raman Kandola said:
Hi I've just purchased a private plate and was looking at the rules.I know about the spacing and how letters cant be altered etc

. Its says on Gov.Uk Website that you can only have GB or EU or a national flag at the left hand side of the plate.
There's your answer then! smile

jurbie

2,339 posts

200 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Raman Kandola said:
Its says on Gov.Uk Website that you can only have GB or EU or a national flag at the left hand side of the plate.
I occasionally wind the missus up with this as she has a Welsh flag on her number plate which I've always understood to be illegal. The above seems to confirm that as I imagine the definition of a national flag is that of a sovereign EU nation?

Cat

3,015 posts

268 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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jurbie said:
I occasionally wind the missus up with this as she has a Welsh flag on her number plate which I've always understood to be illegal. The above seems to confirm that as I imagine the definition of a national flag is that of a sovereign EU nation?
You may want to stop. The red dragon is a perfectly legal flag on a number plate.

Cat

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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I find the little England flags on number plates helpful. They serve much the same function as those little Christian fish symbols in warning road users that the driver of the vehicle thus adorned is very probably a twunt.

jurbie

2,339 posts

200 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Cat said:
You may want to stop. The red dragon is a perfectly legal flag on a number plate.

Cat
Puddenchucker said:
Nah it's more fun to wind her up but thanks both for the info.

MGZTV8

591 posts

148 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
I find the little England flags on number plates helpful. They serve much the same function as those little Christian fish symbols in warning road users that the driver of the vehicle thus adorned is very probably a twunt.
Quality... smile

BullyB

2,344 posts

246 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
those little Christian fish symbols in warning road users that the driver of the vehicle thus adorned is very probably a twunt.
There was me thinking I was the only one who noticed that

Rostfritt

3,098 posts

150 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
I find the little England flags on number plates helpful. They serve much the same function as those little Christian fish symbols in warning road users that the driver of the vehicle thus adorned is very probably a twunt.
Saw one of those on a Lambo in London, I don't know which was worse, the horrible plate, their terrible driving or the really badly proportioned England flag.

I am sure I read somewhere that SCO and CYM with the appropriate flags are either allowed or 'tolerated' alternatives to GB.

Cat

3,015 posts

268 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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jurbie said:
Nah it's more fun to wind her up but thanks both for the info.
Fair enough you're obviously a braver man than me. eek

Cat

Raman Kandola

Original Poster:

221 posts

122 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Haha thanks for all the responses, Guess i will try not to answer my own question in the opening post next time! Decided on no badge, decided it looks better after playing with a few generators online

rs1952

5,247 posts

258 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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BullyB said:
Breadvan72 said:
I find the little England flags on number plates helpful. They serve much the same function as those little Christian fish symbols in warning road users that the driver of the vehicle thus adorned is very probably a twunt.
There was me thinking I was the only one who noticed that
No - there's three of us

smile

Carnage

886 posts

231 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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National Trust stickers. Even clear indication of danger ahead than the fishes...

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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BullyB said:
Breadvan72 said:
those little Christian fish symbols in warning road users that the driver of the vehicle thus adorned is very probably a twunt.
There was me thinking I was the only one who noticed that
Well I never. There was me thinking they were advertising their membership of the LGBT community. Every day's a schoolday. wink

Hadn't really given much thought to the twunt connection. scratchchin.

Rostfritt said:
I am sure I read somewhere that SCO and CYM with the appropriate flags are either allowed or 'tolerated' alternatives to GB.
You would have discovered that they are definitely allowed had your reading been done via the link posted earlier by Puddenchucker. smile

edeath

333 posts

190 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Carnage said:
National Trust stickers. Even clear indication of danger ahead than the fishes...
What are you trying to say about my driving when I borrow my parents car? (Admittedly your theory applies when they are driving!)