Diplomatic cars
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I think he means registration plates assigned to cars belonging to foreign embassies around the uk.
The plates look similar to ours but they are 3 numbers with a letter (either a 'd' or an 'x') then 3 numbers. The d signifies that it is a diplomat on board and the x means it's assigned to diplomatic staff.
See these cars parked outside the French embassy in Edinburgh all the time.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_cod...
On iPhone so link may not work..
The plates look similar to ours but they are 3 numbers with a letter (either a 'd' or an 'x') then 3 numbers. The d signifies that it is a diplomat on board and the x means it's assigned to diplomatic staff.
See these cars parked outside the French embassy in Edinburgh all the time.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_cod...
On iPhone so link may not work..
Petrolhead_Rich said:
daveparry said:
Just who is entitled to a diplomatic car?, I saw a tatty old Pug 309 the other day with a whole family of "ethnics" in with diplomatic plates, are the cleaners at an embassy driving round in these too!
define a "diplomatic plate"??A typical example is the folk who do medium-range weather forecasting for the whole of Europe (www.ecmwf.int).
The building happens to be near Reading, but because it's an international institution, it has the same status as an embassy.
There are a fair number of these types of places kicking about. The ECMWF staffers all get "D" plates for their cars, don't pay things like the congestion charge, and none of them pay UK income tax...
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More info (inculding a lookup table to figure out which diplomatic entity the plate belongs to) over here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_codes...
My example is under "International Organisations, 903"
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My example is under "International Organisations, 903"
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