(Almost) consecutive numberplates
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It irks me more than it should that on the 6 new minibuses that were delivered at work on the same day, the numberplates were not quite consecutive
All had the same xx60 beginning but the last 3 letters on them were something like GHA, GHB, GHD, GHE, GHJ, GHK
Which always made it look like it some were missing, even though they never existed at work for us.
All had the same xx60 beginning but the last 3 letters on them were something like GHA, GHB, GHD, GHE, GHJ, GHK
Which always made it look like it some were missing, even though they never existed at work for us.
Bristol 411 and 410 by me, on FlickrMy late 410 on the right, an early 411 in the left. There are 6 or 7 Bristols all in the 480H-490H range.
addz86 said:
2172cc said:
The most famous sequence of consecutive numbers must surely be the Arbury supplied DAC registered Sunbeam Lotus cars from 1983. Should have been DAC 1 to 150 Y but in reality around 100 made it with a few gaps in between.
A friend of mine has 112
This is 120 and 35 together
It certainly used to be fairly common with fleets pre-2001.
We had several M8xxKVK Nissan's. I just checked, our old Micra back us still going.
A fleet of red Volvos were all W83 something WUB. I saw odd new crop up on increasingly down-market local car lots over the years.
When I was a kid we had KUN 949 and 955P. Both supplied by the factory a few months apart.
We had several M8xxKVK Nissan's. I just checked, our old Micra back us still going.
A fleet of red Volvos were all W83 something WUB. I saw odd new crop up on increasingly down-market local car lots over the years.
When I was a kid we had KUN 949 and 955P. Both supplied by the factory a few months apart.
addz86 said:
2172cc said:
The most famous sequence of consecutive numbers must surely be the Arbury supplied DAC registered Sunbeam Lotus cars from 1983. Should have been DAC 1 to 150 Y but in reality around 100 made it with a few gaps in between.
A friend of mine has 112looks like it is driven too!!
My old car was S95JAR. I sold it in 2014 and about 9 months or so before I did I managed to park next to S94JAR in Tesco, which was another silver Civic with a slightly different spec and looked like it been subject to multiple parking scrapes. Up until a few years ago S96JAR, S97JAR and S98JAR all lived locally, all Civics like mine too.
Where I worked as a student bought a lot of tractors and would often buy 3 at a time which would be consecutive as you can imagine. One place I worked traded 2 tractors as normal, but there was an issue when they were sold on because the number plate didn't match the VIN, turned out they had each others plates.
Where I worked as a student bought a lot of tractors and would often buy 3 at a time which would be consecutive as you can imagine. One place I worked traded 2 tractors as normal, but there was an issue when they were sold on because the number plate didn't match the VIN, turned out they had each others plates.
Edited by Willy Nilly on Tuesday 27th June 18:05
Suffix/Prefix plates were commonly sequential from dealers. Our company cars in 1998/99 were all sequential.
More unusually, I've got a private plate on my car, <2 numbers (birthday)> <3 letters (initials)>. Had it 18yrs.
Moved house 8 years ago, car two doors down has the exact same plate except the last letter is the previous letter in the alphabet. Their family has had the plate from first registered in the early 1950s. The letter different means it was registered in a different part of the country.
More unusually, I've got a private plate on my car, <2 numbers (birthday)> <3 letters (initials)>. Had it 18yrs.
Moved house 8 years ago, car two doors down has the exact same plate except the last letter is the previous letter in the alphabet. Their family has had the plate from first registered in the early 1950s. The letter different means it was registered in a different part of the country.
In November 1982 I bought the first Escort XR3i to be sold by Kirbys of Wrexham, managed to persuade the salesman to let me have the registration LCA 12Y for it from the sequence LCA 1Y to LCA 20Y which were being saved for demonstration cars. A couple of months ago I saw a Peugeot 308 in Chester with the registration LCA 1Y. A time lapse of 35 years!
tog said:
Bristol 411 and 410 by me, on FlickrMy late 410 on the right, an early 411 in the left. There are 6 or 7 Bristols all in the 480H-490H range.
But they are great cars.
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