Number plate suffix's

[Vipers]

I was just playing around with Askmid, and found out that my "S" plate Devon Moonraker Camper is still insured, so then googled to find out which year I purchased it, (It was a long time ago), anway found this link:-

http://www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/year-of-issue.htm

However I noticed that 1967 had two letters assigned to it E & F, same with 1999, it had T & V,
curious I thought, so does anyone know if this is right, and any reason for it?

I hope who ever has my old camper of 34 years young is enjoying it as much as I did.

[sday12]

Suffixes

[central]

And wrong forum.

[uncinquesei]

1967 changed from January to august for new reg so two that year and 1999 was first year of march and September new registrations. It wasn't that long ago and there've been 2 a year since...

[caziques]

If my memory is correct (and it may not be) suffix number plates used to change at year end. As this caused huge problems with many people trying to register a new car on 1st Jan - the date was changed to 1st August.

The "short" year was 1966 with D reg, only from 1st Jan to 30th July.

Also from memory councils could use A and B reg if they had run out and if they wanted to, C reg became compulsory. Hence you can have 64 cars without a suffix or with a B reg, but all 65 cars are C reg.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[K50 DEL]

caziques said:

If my memory is correct (and it may not be) suffix number plates used to change at year end. As this caused huge problems with many people trying to register a new car on 1st Jan - the date was changed to 1st August.

The "short" year was 1966 with D reg, only from 1st Jan to 30th July.

Also from memory councils could use A and B reg if they had run out and if they wanted to, C reg became compulsory. Hence you can have 64 cars without a suffix or with a B reg, but all 65 cars are C reg.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

You are quite correct.
My Grandfather bought a 1967 E Cortina on August 1st of the year that he retired.

[LuS1fer]

In the "old days" (boy, I feel old), the new reg came out annually and changed every August so every calendar year had two letters. When they were trying to run them out, they changed this to every 6 months to try to spread car sales out instead of the massive sales they used to get on August 1st and here we are now.

The old system was way better - people got genuinely excited about new regs on August 1st - it was a huge "status" event. Now rainy March and rainy September pass with barely anyone noticing and the new plate every 6 months is too short a period for people to be that interested when they do change - it's more a code than a reg now.

[tvrgit]

K50 DEL said:

caziques said:

If my memory is correct (and it may not be) suffix number plates used to change at year end. As this caused huge problems with many people trying to register a new car on 1st Jan - the date was changed to 1st August.

The "short" year was 1966 with D reg, only from 1st Jan to 30th July.

Also from memory councils could use A and B reg if they had run out and if they wanted to, C reg became compulsory. Hence you can have 64 cars without a suffix or with a B reg, but all 65 cars are C reg.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

You are quite correct.
My Grandfather bought a 1967 E Cortina on August 1st of the year that he retired.

YOu're correct except that the short year was 1967.

[Vipers]

central said:

And wrong forum.

Mine usually are.

Anyway I thought the change from Jan to Aug was 65, with C reg coming out in 65, but how do we explain having two letters in 1999 as well?

Edited by Vipers on Thursday 8th September 09:30

[pacman1]

Wassup wth the link?

[Vipers]

pacman1 said:

Wassup wth the link?

Just double checked my first post, link works fine...... gremlins on your PC

[pacman1]

How strange, this is what I see..

An error has occurred :

Error in executing SELECT * FROM nngb_meme_bad WHERE negative='Number' OR negative='plate' OR negative='suffix's' LIMIT 1 stmt

Please try to refresh this page. If the error persists, please contact [e-mail] listing the error, with a brief explanation of what you were attempting to do.

Alternatively you can call our office on (01642) 36 37 38

An error has occurred :

error:1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 's' LIMIT 1' at line 1

Please try to refresh this page. If the error persists, please contact [e-mail] listing the error, with a brief explanation of what you were attempting to do.

Alternatively you can call our office on (01642) 36 37 38

[gshughes]

pacman1 said:

How strange, this is what I see..

An error has occurred :

Error in executing SELECT * FROM nngb_meme_bad WHERE negative='Number' OR negative='plate' OR negative='suffix's' LIMIT 1 stmt

Please try to refresh this page. If the error persists, please contact [e-mail] listing the error, with a brief explanation of what you were attempting to do.

Alternatively you can call our office on (01642) 36 37 38

An error has occurred :

error:1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 's' LIMIT 1' at line 1

Please try to refresh this page. If the error persists, please contact [e-mail] listing the error, with a brief explanation of what you were attempting to do.

Alternatively you can call our office on (01642) 36 37 38

Was the same for me, so I browsed around the rest of the site, then clicked on teh link again, and it worked fine second time round.

[pacman1]

Followed your advice gsh, working now! Odd, what?

[jamesson]

Vipers said:

but how do we explain having two letters in 1999 as well?

earlier on uncinquesei said:

1999 was first year of march and September new registrations. It wasn't that long ago and there've been 2 a year since...

[Vipers]

Thanks guy's the querey is solved, as one would expect on a site like PH's