First "11" plates?
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mnkiboy said:
Good time to buy if your names Will, or Bill, or Neil, or Gill, or....
Bet the 'I' in the above is not going to be available. Looks too much like a 1 on a plate.I've often wondered what the hell is the point of this age denomination nonsense on plates. Surely it's just a massive bureaucratic waste of money? As long as every car has a unique number then what the hell difference does it make how those letters and numbers are combined. The year of registration is on the log book so why does it need to be on a plate?
E36GUY said:
Bet the 'I' in the above is not going to be available. Looks too much like a 1 on a plate.
I've often wondered what the hell is the point of this age denomination nonsense on plates. Surely it's just a massive bureaucratic waste of money? As long as every car has a unique number then what the hell difference does it make how those letters and numbers are combined. The year of registration is on the log book so why does it need to be on a plate?
The current system for Great Britain was introduced on 1 September 2001. Each registration index consists of seven characters with a defined format.[3][4]I've often wondered what the hell is the point of this age denomination nonsense on plates. Surely it's just a massive bureaucratic waste of money? As long as every car has a unique number then what the hell difference does it make how those letters and numbers are combined. The year of registration is on the log book so why does it need to be on a plate?
From left to right, the characters consist of:
* A local memory tag or area code, consisting of two letters which together indicate the local registration office. The letters I, Q and Z are not used as local office identifiers; Z can be only used as a random letter.
o The first of these two letters is a mnemonic standing for the name of the broad area where the registration office is located. This is intended to make the registration more memorable than an arbitrary code.[5][6] For example, A is used as the first character in all registrations issued by the three offices located in the vicinity of East Anglia;
* A two-digit age identifier, which changes twice a year, in March and September. The code is either the last two digits of the year itself if issued between March and August (e.g. "10" for registrations issued between 1 March and 31 August 2010), or else has 50 added to that value if issued between September and February the following year (e.g. "60" for registrations issued between 1 September 2010 and 28 February 2011);
* A three-letter sequence which uniquely distinguishes each of the vehicles displaying the same initial four-character area and age sequence. The letters I and Q are excluded from the three-letter sequence, as are combinations that may appear offensive (including those in foreign languages).
This scheme has three particular advantages:
* A buyer of a second-hand vehicle can in theory determine the year of first registration of the vehicle without having to look it up,
* In the case of a police investigation of an accident or vehicle-related crime, witnesses usually remember the initial area code letters — it is then quite simple to narrow down suspect vehicles to a much smaller number by checking the authority's database without having to know the full number.[citation needed]
* The scheme should have sufficient numbers to run until 28 February 2051.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_number_plates
E36GUY said:
Bet the 'I' in the above is not going to be available. Looks too much like a 1 on a plate.
I is not used as an area code letter, but if it was I can't see a problem. You can get the second letter as O on an 02-09 plate, no differnce.In fact, OO is an area code, as I've seen plates that star OO0* ***.
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