Whose got the best Car Reg Plate?
Unknown
wrote:
>Whose got the best Car Reg Plate?
>
>I have 5441 0n a Black MGB Roadster... paid £160 for it in '81...
One of our next door neighbour's friends used to have a car with "RR1"
number plates.
I think the owner of the vehicle ran a Rolls Royce dealership and had
been offered more than a £1,000,000 for the plates by certain
interested parties, including a certain car company.
Does the Dunlop (of tyre fame) Family still hold the most basic number
plate "A1" ?
Graham
Gra...@dirconabc.co.uk
(to reply remove abc from domain name)
Christian Mayne
>Hmmmm. AFAIK, RR1 *does* belong to Rolls Royce^WVickers^WVolkswagen^WBMW.
>Porsche UK own a series of numbers including THE928S, THE911S and THE924S.
>Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
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Al Grant
> Hugh Davies wrote in message <6qbnmf$f...@axalotl.demon.co.uk>...
> >Porsche UK own a series of numbers including THE928S, THE911S and THE924S.
> >Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
>
> And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
Yes but it's cheating now you can make up any combination of
letters and numbers! Saab owners are supposed to be above that
sort of thing anyway.
I guess the best standard modern plate, without having to alter it in
any way, would be M3BMW.
Colin McKenzie
>
> And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
>
I presume the number cost them so much they didn't have enough left over to
buy a 9000?
Colin McKenzie
Roland Perry
writes
>Yes but it's cheating now you can make up any combination of
>letters and numbers!
Not any combination. It still has to be [some of] "A 9|99 AAA". All the
best ones are either gone, or auctioned by DVLC, or the other way round
[AAA 9|99 A] which you aren't allowed to choose, IIRC.
>I guess the best standard modern plate, without having to alter it in
>any way, would be M3BMW.
A local company [on the A3] called "A3 Van Hire" has A3 VAN on a
transit.
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>
> In article <35cfe0ee...@news.dircon.co.uk>, (Graham Wilson) writes:
>
> >I think the owner of the vehicle ran a Rolls Royce dealership and had
> >been offered more than a £1,000,000 for the plates by certain
> >interested parties, including a certain car company.
>
>
>
> Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
ISTR Bristol Cars Ltd. having "100MPH" and "MPH100" since the
mid-1950's.
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Christian Mayne
Colin McKenzie wrote
Possibly, but I put it down to them having the good taste to buy the
sexiest car available, rather than the Swedish version of the Granada
Adrian Vickers
> And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
Would that perchance be a black stretch limo?
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I heard fairly recently that the DVLA were very paranoid about letting
"rude" registration plates out.
They did, however, miss PEN15...
nightjar
For many decades it belonged to the London Rolls Royce dealership which
had showrooms opposite Hyde Park Corner.
Nightjar
Al Grant
> >I guess the best standard modern plate, without having to alter it in
> >any way, would be M3BMW.
>
> A local company [on the A3] called "A3 Van Hire" has A3 VAN on a
> transit.
There is a style 4x4 with "A10ELY" parked by the A10 near Ely.
Also there is a driving school car round here with L1MSM on it.
Don't we have this thread at least once a month?
Roland Perry
Vickers <nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk> writes
>I heard fairly recently that the DVLA were very paranoid about letting
>"rude" registration plates out.
That's, been the case for ever... AIUI, they even had a list of rude
words in foreign languages.
>They did, however, miss PEN15...
A very well known one. It was probably PEN 1S, 'mistakenly' let out when
"S" reg was introduced.
Unknown
wrote:
>A very well known one. It was probably PEN 1S, 'mistakenly' let out when
>"S" reg was introduced.
There was some talk a while ago of DVLA withdrawing all number plates
with the numbers "666" in them.
There was some talk that one insurer had a policy of increasing
premiums very slightly on vehicles with "666" in the plating.
I think the insurers logic was that someone driving around in a car
with "666" in the plating may rather foolishly worry that the car was
jinxed and that this would increase the chance of them having an
accident because of worry.
Unknown
(Hugh Davies) wrote:
>In article <35cfe0ee...@news.dircon.co.uk>, (Graham Wilson) writes:
>
>>I think the owner of the vehicle ran a Rolls Royce dealership and had
>>been offered more than a £1,000,000 for the plates by certain
>>interested parties, including a certain car company.
>
>Hmmmm. AFAIK, RR1 *does* belong to Rolls Royce^WVickers^WVolkswagen^WBMW.
They must have purchased it from him then.
r@n
wrote in article <35C9CB...@not-for-mail.nerc-swindon.ac.uk>...
> > >I think the owner of the vehicle ran a Rolls Royce dealership and
> > >had been offered more than a £1,000,000 for the plates by certain
> > >interested parties, including a certain car company.
> > Hmmmm. AFAIK, RR1 *does* belong to Rolls Royce^WVickers^WVolkswagen^WBMW.
I thought it belong to someone else (Bewley?), which is why a series of adverts used RR11
> > Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
Is that not Aston Martin Lagonda?
> ISTR Bristol Cars Ltd. having "100MPH" and "MPH100" since the mid-1950's.
I thought they stopped issuing backwards and forwards, when the prefix/suffix letters
came in? Anyway, when was that?
Adrian Vickers
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:06:06 +0100, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>A very well known one. It was probably PEN 1S, 'mistakenly' let out when
>>"S" reg was introduced.
>
> There was some talk a while ago of DVLA withdrawing all number plates
> with the numbers "666" in them.
AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
Rod Begbie
nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk (Adrian Vickers) writes:
> I heard fairly recently that the DVLA were very paranoid about letting
> "rude" registration plates out.
They refused someone in Scotland 'P15 OFF'. So he got 'P15 AFF' instead.
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Roland Perry
>I thought it belong to someone else (Bewley?), which is why a series of adverts
>used RR11
Rolls Royce, AFAIK, have never used RR1 on publicity shots, or for
review cars; you'd think they would, if they could. I think they
normally use '1800 TU', does anyone know its significance?
>> > Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
>
>Is that not Aston Martin Lagonda?
Yes.
>> ISTR Bristol Cars Ltd. having "100MPH" and "MPH100" since the mid-
1950's.
>I thought they stopped issuing backwards and forwards, when the prefix/suffix
>letters
>came in? Anyway, when was that?
1963 in London, 1964 elsewhere.
William Warburton
>
> In article <902443291.26933.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk (Adrian Vickers) wrote:
>
> > AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
>
My father had a car with the plate OLS 666 P
Cheers,
W.
Bill Foote
SSS 555 S
OOO 000 O
Hugh Davies wrote:
>
> Personally, I think it's all a bit silly. Anyone know which set of letters
> and numbers are the least easily read????
Willy Eckerslyke
> They refused someone in Scotland 'P15 OFF'. So he got 'P15 AFF' instead.
That's a Meirioneth number, that is. You get lots of OFFs round
these parts. OFF 2L being every boy's dream when I was one.
I find it vaguely depressing that a large number of classic
cars issued with age related plates purport to originate from
this corner of the world (CC, CJ, FF, EY, etc) despite the fact
that they've never been out of the home counties.
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Craig Bruce
Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:49:54 GMT, 10055...@compuserve.com (Passion)
> wrote:
>
> >Whose got the best Car Reg Plate?
Here in Maidenhead I've seen:
L8 TEX - woman driver that I never managed to catch up with ;-)
M1AOW (or derivation) - seen on a black Alfa GTV
I always feel kinda sorry for the owner of the M5 Beemer badged: M5 BWM, I
guess
he's not quite as well off as he thinks!
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Al Grant <ag...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
>
> letters and numbers!
> Saab owners are supposed to be above that
> sort of thing anyway.
>
> I guess the best standard modern plate, without having to alter it in
> any way, would be M3BMW.
>
i also saw PEN1S once (the number plate that is).
which are both standard ones.
>
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| > AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
|
| That seems a shame.
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>
> There's a car I see sometimes around the Stirling area with the
> registration H1KER.
I always fancied getting H1NDU and setting myself up
as a limo-hire company specialising in Indian weddings..
Weldh Penguinophiles could get P1NGU
And given my predilection for all things canine, D1NGO
would have been quite fun to get...
Though I guess D1LDO was filtered out by the DVLA
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cohena
>>Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
>
>And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
Porsche Boxter near me with 13OX
The 1 and 3 are rediculously close though... only a minute gap between them,
so easily reads BOX from any distance.
cohena
Nope - at my old college, one of the Dinner Ladies had an old Ford Escort
with the numberplate "D666 CUM".
Always gave us something to laugh at..
-andy
JNugent231
>I always fancied getting H1NDU and setting myself up
>as a limo-hire company specialising in Indian weddings..
>
>Weldh Penguinophiles could get P1NGU
>
>And given my predilection for all things canine, D1NGO
>would have been quite fun to get...
>
>Though I guess D1LDO was filtered out by the DVLA
>taste-police...
Over twenty years ago, I saw a grey Triumph Herald on the Widnes-Runcorn
bridge. It was being driven by a female and had the number BRA 38C.
Winnie
Best one I ever saw was years ago - "JOE 90" on a yellow sports car.
Kewl.
Winnie
Dom
nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk (Adrian Vickers) wrote:
>> wrote:
>>
>>>A very well known one. It was probably PEN 1S, 'mistakenly' let out when
>>>"S" reg was introduced.
>>
>> There was some talk a while ago of DVLA withdrawing all number plates
>> with the numbers "666" in them.
>
Somewhat to my disbelief, at my grandmother's funeral, the Number Two
Black Car, i.e. the one with the immediate family in it, had a "666"
registration plate. I kid you not.
Roland Perry
>The 1 and 3 are rediculously close though... only a minute gap between them,
>so easily reads BOX from any distance.
Illegal, then. Has to be at least 1/4 inch IIRC.
chris harrison
>
> In article <6qem5r$a...@eugwy1.bp.com>, cohena <coh...@bp.com> writes
> >The 1 and 3 are rediculously close though... only a minute gap between them,
> >so easily reads BOX from any distance.
>
> Illegal, then. Has to be at least 1/4 inch IIRC.
And everyone, including all car drivers, always obey every law, don't
they? :)
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I recently saw a flashy sportscar on the M4 with the reg:
NO WILLY (NOW111Y)
I assumed it was being driven by a women, but on closer
inspection it wasn't!
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r@n
wrote in article <o+Sg2UDK...@perry.co.uk>...
> In article <01bdc186$7bd9ed60$0100007f@clipper>, r@n.? writes
> > When did the prefix/suffix letters came in?
> 1963 in London, 1964 elsewhere.
So did everywhere else start with B?
No cannot be, you must mean after Dec before Aug, when still A?
William Turner
<URL:mailto:fil...@firthcom.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > In article <902423836.21270.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, Adrian
> > Vickers <nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk> writes
>
> >
> > "S" reg was introduced.
>
Yep. Interestingly (or not), it features on a Brands hatch publicity photo
for their driving school. However, Steve Parrish 'just happens' to be blocking
the right-hand side of the numberplate (it's on his Merc)...
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: That's, been the case for ever... AIUI, they even had a list of rude
: words in foreign languages.
You're not allowed DUW, which is Welsh for "God"
or indeed MAS, which is Gaelic for "buttock".
But neither of those languages are "foreign" with
respect to the ambit of the DVLA though.
Christian Mayne
>
>Best one I ever saw was years ago - "JOE 90" on a yellow sports car.
>Kewl.
>
Reminds me of another one I saw in Cambridge on a TVR: 8OND
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Willy Eckerslyke
The August change over didn't come in until halfway through
E. That's why there are fewer Es than other letters.
Not a lot of people knew that.
Paul Dundas
rol...@perry.co.uk "Roland Perry" writes:
> In article <01bdc186$7bd9ed60$0100007f@clipper>, r@n.? writes
> >I thought it belong to someone else (Bewley?), which is why a series of
> adverts
> >used RR11
>
> Rolls Royce, AFAIK, have never used RR1 on publicity shots, or for
> review cars; you'd think they would, if they could. I think they
> normally use '1800 TU', does anyone know its significance?
I've wondered that for years. (Well, no, to tell the truth I
haven't devoted a lot of time to wondering about it!).
Haven't they a few other "TU" plates too? TU 2000 rings a bell.
> "Time is an illusion. Launch times doubly so".
>
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Roland Perry
<ca...@icparc.ic.ac.uk> writes
>And everyone, including all car drivers, always obey every law, don't
>they? :)
People who make up car numberplates are supposed to, yes!
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>> 1963 in London, 1964 elsewhere.
>
>So did everywhere else start with B?
Yes.
>No cannot be, you must mean after Dec before Aug, when still A?
I meant what I said!
A - Jan 63-Dec 63
B - Jan 64-Dec 64
C - Jan 65-Dec 65
D - Jan 66-Dec 66
E - Jan 67-Jul 67
F - Aug 67-Jul 68
[..And then every August..]
Ian G Batten
In article <6qf4vg$5...@romeo.logica.co.uk>,
Christian Mayne <cma...@bcs.org.uk.remove.last.four.words> wrote:
> Reminds me of another one I saw in Cambridge on a TVR: 8OND
There's one of those horrible Reliant `sports' cars of the late eighties
with the numberplate SPY 999X, for some value of 999X.
In the car park at GCHQ.
I asked my host about it, and apparently PY is a fairly local suffix and
this is quite a popular sort of plate to obtain. One can only shake
ones head in wonderment at who would do something so sad.
ian
Who at the start of the G year contemplated trying to get G1 FVC on a
car, until he realised he hadn't used his radio license since 1987.
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JNugent231
>> > When did the prefix/suffix letters came in?
>
>> 1963 in London, 1964 elsewhere.
>
>So did everywhere else start with B?
>No cannot be, you must mean after Dec before Aug, when still A?
There were definitely Liverpool numbers (_KA, _KB, _KC, _KD, _KF and _LV) which
had the "A" suffix (1963).
r@n
wrote in article <TGguYQAA...@perry.co.uk>...
> In article <01bdc1f7$fc975160$0100007f@clipper>, r@n.? writes
> >So did everywhere else start with B?
> Yes.
> >No cannot be, you must mean after Dec before Aug, when still A?
> I meant what I said!
> A - Jan 63-Dec 63
> B - Jan 64-Dec 64
> C - Jan 65-Dec 65
> D - Jan 66-Dec 66
> E - Jan 67-Jul 67
> F - Aug 67-Jul 68
> [..And then every August..]
I had not remembered the change from Jan to August. I still do not
understand why outside London joined the letter system a year later.
Now I understand why I had the impression there were very few 'A'.
r@n
wrote in article <35CB8A...@mam.nospam>...> > wrote in article <o+Sg2UDK...@perry.co.uk>...
> > > In article <01bdc186$7bd9ed60$0100007f@clipper>, r@n.? writes
> > > > When did the prefix/suffix letters came in?
> > > 1963 in London, 1964 elsewhere.
> > So did everywhere else start with B?
> > No cannot be, you must mean after Dec before Aug, when still A?
> The August change over didn't come in until halfway through
> E. That's why there are fewer Es than other letters.
> Not a lot of people knew that.
Having had 2 new 'E' had not noticed they were few. I did noticed the lack of 'A'.
Roland Perry
> I still do not
>understand why outside London joined the letter system a year later.
Originally, the letters were introduced because the system had "run out"
of the old AAA 999 and 999 AAA designations. Because London had run out
first, they got the letters first.
I get the impression that the original idea of phasing them in, County
by County, on the basis of 'need', was over-ruled such that everywhere
outside London got B's, whether they needed them or not.
Peter Thomas
>On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:49:54 GMT, 10055...@compuserve.com (Passion)
>wrote:
>
>>Whose got the best Car Reg Plate?
>>
>>I have 5441 0n a Black MGB Roadster... paid £160 for it in '81...
>
>One of our next door neighbour's friends used to have a car with "RR1"
>number plates.
>
>I think the owner of the vehicle ran a Rolls Royce dealership and had
>been offered more than a £1,000,000 for the plates by certain
>interested parties, including a certain car company.
>
>Does the Dunlop (of tyre fame) Family still hold the most basic number
>plate "A1" ?
>
>Graham
>
>
>Gra...@dirconabc.co.uk
>(to reply remove abc from domain name)
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Adrian Vickers
> Simon Gardner wrote:
>>
>> In article <902443291.26933.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>> nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk (Adrian Vickers) wrote:
>>
>> > AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
>>
>
> My father had a car with the plate OLS 666 P
>
Oh.
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Vickers <nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk> wrote
> (Graham Wilson) wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:06:06 +0100, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>"S" reg was introduced.
>>
>> with the numbers "666" in them.
>
Crap! We used to have a car with the registration 666 GFR.
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Alasdair Baxter
wrote:
>You're not allowed DUW, which is Welsh for "God"
>or indeed MAS, which is Gaelic for "buttock".
>
>But neither of those languages are "foreign" with
>respect to the ambit of the DVLA though.
I know that the former Local Motor Taxation Offices did not issue the
names for God in any of the British languages, English, Scots Gaelic,
Irish Gaelic, Welsh and presumably, Manx and Cornish.
I didn't realise that MAS was a prohibited set of letters. I feel sure
it was allocated by the old Nairnshire County Council or DVLC or both.
Mas is a relatively polite word and means "bottom", whether of a person,
a barrell, a utensil or whatever. The coarse word is "ton" with a grave
over the "o".
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>Does the Dunlop (of tyre fame) Family still hold the most basic number
>plate "A1" ?
In 1990, it was owned by BTR plc. Number originally allocated to Earl
Russell in 1903 who queued all night for it. He put it on his Napier car.
Shortly afterwards, it was transferred to the Chairman of the then London
County Council who held it till 1907 when it was acquired by a Mr. George
V. Pettyt who held it till his death in 1950. Mr. Pettyt's car, a Sunbeam
Talbot 90, together with the number was bequeathed to a Trevor T. Laker
with the request that, on Mr. Laker's death the number should be sold and
the proceeds go to a dogs' charity. On Mr. Laker's death in 1970, the
number was sold to Dunlop Holdings Limited and a donation of £2500 was
made to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
Alasdair Baxter
Davies) wrote:
>Hmmmm. AFAIK, RR1 *does* belong to Rolls Royce^WVickers^WVolkswagen^WBMW.
In 1990, RR1 was listed as owned by H. R. Owen Limited of London who also
owned FEB1, HRO1, HRO1N, 12HRO and 14HRO.
5AAB is listed as owned by Geoff Graves of Lowestoft.
1R is on a Roller belonging to Gary Steingold, financier.
Any more and I'll gladly look them up for you in Car Numbers by Noel
Woodall of Blackpool who describes himself as an "autonumerologist".
The ISBN of the 1990 edition of the book is 0 9502537 6 6.
Alasdair Baxter
>i also saw PEN1S once (the number plate that is)
PEN1S is not listed. PEN15 is listed as owned by Tom Goody of London W4;
he also owns WOM13.
Alasdair Baxter
wrote:
>Rolls Royce, AFAIK, have never used RR1 on publicity shots, or for
>review cars; you'd think they would, if they could. I think they
>normally use '1800 TU', does anyone know its significance?
Rolls Royce Motors Limited of Crewe own AX201, 100LG, RRM1, 20TU,
1800TU, 1900TU, 3500TU.
1850TU is owned by Touche Ross, the Chartered Accountants.
Helen Deborah Vecht
from Alas...@dram.demon.co.uk (Alasdair Baxter) contains these words:
> Mr. Pettyt's car, a Sunbeam
> Talbot 90, together with the number was bequeathed to a Trevor T. Laker
> with the request that, on Mr. Laker's death the number should be sold and
> the proceeds go to a dogs' charity. On Mr. Laker's death in 1970, the
> number was sold to Dunlop Holdings Limited and a donation of £2500 was
> made to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
I remember passing this car fairly often as a child in Leicester. Mr
Laker admired my mother's brood of (then) 5 children, while my mother
admired his number plate!
At the time ABC 1 was the registration mark on the Lord Mayor of
Leicester's car. We lived only a few doors away from (the late) Sir
Mark Henig then Lord Mayor of Leicester, so I saw a fair bit of that car too.
Where is ABC 1 now?
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Great Britain
Adrian Vickers
> a barrell, a utensil or whatever. The coarse word is "ton" with a grave
> over the "o".
<smartarse>
So that would be a dead weight then?
<\smartarse>
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Ade. (sorry, couldn't resist)
JNugent231
>Rolls Royce Motors Limited of Crewe own AX201, 100LG, RRM1, 20TU,
>1800TU, 1900TU, 3500TU.
>
Someone asked the significance of the "TU" numbers owned by RR - I think it
simply lies in the fact these were formerly Cheshire County numbers pre-DVLC.
Alasdair Baxter
<helen...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>Where is ABC 1 now?
It is, AFAIK, still the Leicester Mayoral Car as is also 1ABC.
Alasdair Baxter
S0; the convener (chairman) of Strathclyde Regional Council had V0 (I
don't know who has it now since SRC died) and the Lord Mayor of London
has LN0. These were obviously special allocations to civic heads and I
wonder if anyone knows of any others.
JNugent231
>The Lord Provost of Glasgow sports G0, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh has
>S0; the convener (chairman) of Strathclyde Regional Council had V0 (I
>don't know who has it now since SRC died) and the Lord Mayor of London
>has LN0. These were obviously special allocations to civic heads and I
>wonder if anyone knows of any others.
Nottingham City Council (in County Borough days) made a wedding present of ANN
1 to Princess Anne. I always wondered Leeds would go one better when she was
pregnant and make a gift of MUM 2B.
Roland Perry
<Alas...@dram.demon.co.uk> writes
>Rolls Royce Motors Limited of Crewe own AX201, 100LG, RRM1, 20TU,
>1800TU, 1900TU, 3500TU.
Yes, but what is the *significance* of the "TU" ?
Alasdair Baxter
wrote:
>Yes, but what is the *significance* of the "TU"
I ignored that because I don't know the answer. I can say, however, that
TU was the index mark for Cheshire in the old days.
Alasdair Baxter
>Nottingham City Council (in County Borough days) made a wedding present of ANN
>1 to Princess Anne.
Are you sure it wasn't 1ANN which was gifted to the princess?
JNugent231
>>Nottingham City Council (in County Borough days) made a wedding present of
>ANN
>>1 to Princess Anne.
>
>Are you sure it wasn't 1ANN which was gifted to the princess?
Possibly - the memory plays tricks - and it was quite a while ago. I'll
certainly defer to a Nottingham resident on the matter!
Roland Perry
<helen...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>Where is ABC 1 now?
Many of the 'ABC' numbers were owned by ABC homes, a property developer
in Essex. I forget what the "A" stood for, but "B" was Bairstow [as in
the estate agents] and "C" was Cherry.
Andy Bolton
Paul Gardner wrote in message ...
My current car has 666 in the registration (C-reg)
Chris J Dixon
>In article <35CAF6C6...@icparc.ic.ac.uk>, chris harrison
><ca...@icparc.ic.ac.uk> writes
>>And everyone, including all car drivers, always obey every law, don't
>>they? :)
>
>People who make up car numberplates are supposed to, yes!
As are the MOT testers. Do all these folk whose plates have
illegal spacing and/or typefaces swap to a compliant set of
plates for the test?
OTOH maybe they just don't own cars that old :-)
Chris
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Unknown
>>Hugh Davies wrote in message <6qbnmf$f...@axalotl.demon.co.uk>...
>>>Hmmmm. AFAIK, RR1 *does* belong to Rolls Royce^WVickers^WVolkswagen^WBMW.
>>>Porsche UK own a series of numbers including THE928S, THE911S and THE924S.
>>>Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
>>
>>And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
>
>
>Porsche Boxter near me with 13OX
>
>The 1 and 3 are rediculously close though... only a minute gap between them,
>so easily reads BOX from any distance.
The owner of the vehicle risks prosecution by the Police under
construction and use regulations.
The letters have to be of a standard size and follow set spacing.
There was recently a prosecution here in the West Midlands where a
driver put two numbers / letters very close together on a number plate
to try and make a word. He was fined by the Magistrates Court.
Unknown
Vickers) wrote:
> (Graham Wilson) wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:06:06 +0100, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>A very well known one. It was probably PEN 1S, 'mistakenly' let out when
>>>"S" reg was introduced.
>>
>> There was some talk a while ago of DVLA withdrawing all number plates
>> with the numbers "666" in them.
>
>AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
Are you sure about that? They showed a vehicle with the numbers 666 in
the number plate a while ago on television.
Unknown
>>AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
>
>
>Nope - at my old college, one of the Dinner Ladies had an old Ford Escort
>with the numberplate "D666 CUM".
>
>Always gave us something to laugh at..
Is 999 numbering on a plate reserved?
JNugent231
>The owner of the vehicle risks prosecution by the Police under
>construction and use regulations.
>The letters have to be of a standard size and follow set spacing.
>There was recently a prosecution here in the West Midlands where a
>driver put two numbers / letters very close together on a number plate
>to try and make a word. He was fined by the Magistrates Court.
I should think so too. Why should any driver be able to disguise his/her
registration (for whatever reason, including vanity)?
Roland Perry
<chris...@easynet.co.uk> writes
>As are the MOT testers. Do all these folk whose plates have
>illegal spacing and/or typefaces swap to a compliant set of
>plates for the test?
I think they do.
Meanwhile... I've had my car fail the MOT for badly-spaced numberplate,
but I contested it because as a professional numberplate spotter I knew
the spacing was right [but there's something about the kerning of the
letters involved that does make it look suspicious, I agree]. The tester
then admitted that he *didn't* actually have a copy of the relevant
regulation, and reluctantly took my word for it when I threatened to get
my ruler out..
Chris J Dixon
>Is 999 numbering on a plate reserved?
Barnsley used to have several fire appliances with 999 numbers.
The mayoral car was THE 1, and I recall quite a fuss when
somebody mocked up that number on another vehicle for use in an
advert (details forgotten in the mists of time).
Dave Mayall
<ukmisc@DELETE_THIS.bigfoot.com> wrote:
>In article <902443291.26933.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, Adrian
>Vickers <nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk> wrote
>>AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
>
>Crap! We used to have a car with the registration 666 GFR.
They don't issue them any more.
111 .. 999 are part of the DVLC select scheme, and 666 isn't issued.
--
Dave Mayall
Graham Clark
>
>
> I think I would be a bit worried about driving around in a car
> with 666 on the registration plate. I'm not overy superstitious
> but I think this might be tempting fate.
Exactly why they're not issued : they had too many demands for a
different number from the people they'd been issued to. Their records were
enitrely clear on the subject: 666-registered cars had no more or fewer
accidents than others, but these people couldn't be convinced. So eventually
they gave up on it. Although last I heard Cliff Stohl had one.
> Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers. Not me.
> I'd change it. Without hesitation.
I'd love one. Or anything else as easy to remember. 666 1313 would be
quite good - nobody'd need to be told twice.
G.
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Michael Johnson
Various people jointly & severally wrote:
>> >>AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
>> >
>> >Crap! We used to have a car with the registration 666 GFR.
>>
>> They don't issue them any more.
>>
>> 111 .. 999 are part of the DVLC select scheme, and 666 isn't issued.
It *used* to be issued.... a chap I used to work with had a late-80s
Granada with '666' on the plate. Never had the slightest trouble with
it. He did reverse it into a hole in the road once, but that was down
to his own gormlessness, rather than diabolical influence.....
I also know someone who's got a car with '777'. She's had her
number-plates stolen a couple of times. Apparently 777 is a
significant number to some....
>Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers. Not me.
> I'd change it. Without hesitation.
The Torture Garden club was recently allocated a new telephone number
by BT. They were overjoyed to find, quite by chance, they'd been given
a number which incorporates 666. They even pick out this number in red
on their flyers. <shrug> Far as I can gather, it's a bog-standard
phone line with nothing remotely unusual about it. The TG just liked
the idea of getting people all worked up, and BT gave them an
opportunity to do just that.
>999 - the beast on Nemesis at Alton Towers?
I'm still looking for the reg. plate NEM351S......
Uncle Nemesis > Michael Johnson > uncle'globalnet.co.uk
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~uncle/nemesis.htm
Colin McKenzie
>
> PEN1S is not listed. PEN15 is listed as owned by Tom Goody of London W4;
> he also owns WOM13.
> --
list is publicly accessible.
I thought you had to provide DVLA with a fee and a reason to get this sort
of info.
Colin McKenzie
ALAN O. WATKINS
near the Park, one of the staff there made sure he had a moped registered 2
BAD. I wonder what happened to it?
AOW
Paul Speller
> Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers. Not me.
> I'd change it. Without hesitation.
My best friend has a 'phone number starting with 666. She doesn't seem
bothered by it. Despite being scared of the dark. And anything else
vaguely scary for that matter.
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Brian Skinner
> Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers. Not me.
> I'd change it. Without hesitation.
I wouldn't trust any ISP that had 666 in their access numbers.
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Adrian Vickers
> aw...@five.in.the.morning (7 of 14) wrote:
>
>> Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers. Not me.
>> I'd change it. Without hesitation.
>
> I wouldn't trust any ISP that had 666 in their access numbers.
Oh, I don't know. I've never had any trouble with De
*Click* Brrrrrrrrrrr
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Ade.
Paul Speller
> a chap I used to work with had a late-80s
> Granada with '666' on the plate. Never had the slightest trouble with
> it. He did reverse it into a hole in the road once, but that was down
> to his own gormlessness, rather than diabolical influence.....
Aaaaahh, but what if he had fallen down the hole? Aaahhhh! Where would
he have ended up then, eh? Eh? Ahhh!
> >Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers.
> The Torture Garden club was recently allocated a new telephone number
> by BT. They were overjoyed to find, quite by chance, they'd been given
> a number which incorporates 666.
ISTR reading in the Guardian Diary a while back about some religious
group or other being issued with a 'phone number starting "666". They
were not amused.
Dom
I dun seen it on a white Ferrari a few years ago.
Beliar&Belphegor
>> >>AIUI the DVLA never issued a "666" plate.
>> >
>> >Crap! We used to have a car with the registration 666 GFR.
>>
>> They don't issue them any more.
>>
>> 111 .. 999 are part of the DVLC select scheme, and 666 isn't issued.
Just a couple years ago there was a huge insurgence of 666 plates in WA
state. Tons of them. The worst that ever happened to those people was that
an occasional car of hessians would drive past and 'bang their heads' in
their direction. That's it.
My personal favorite? 666 CEO.
Steve Parry-Langdon
>In article <35C9A7A2...@cam.ac.uk>,
> Al Grant <ag...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > >Aston Martin Ltd. own a series of AML numbers, including AML1.
>> >
>> > And There's a Saab 900 in Cambridge with the Reg 5AAB.
>>
>> letters and numbers!
>Can you????
>> Saab owners are supposed to be above that
>> sort of thing anyway.
>mmmmm....
>>
>> I guess the best standard modern plate, without having to alter it in
>> any way, would be M3BMW.
>>
>another BMW one I saw was: B1MMA
>i also saw PEN1S once (the number plate that is).
>which are both standard ones.
>>
>
About 10 years ago I saw BED 69 OK on a Hillman Hunter in Worcs.
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Brian Skinner
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:47:35 GMT, in
> <35d136f2...@news.demon.co.uk>, Brian Skinner wrote:
> >(7 of 14) wrote:
> >
> >> Same as some people have 666 in the telephone numbers. Not me.
> >> I'd change it. Without hesitation.
> >
> >I wouldn't trust any ISP that had 666 in their access numbers.
>
> Why do you pay them 11.75 a month then?
ITYM 'per mensem'.
Panther & Pwccaman
>
> aw...@five.in.the.morning (7 of 14) writes:
>
> >
> >
> > I think I would be a bit worried about driving around in a car
> > with 666 on the registration plate. I'm not overy superstitious
> > but I think this might be tempting fate.
they get Satan when they look at the car,Natas hehehe.
>
> Exactly why they're not issued : they had too many demands for a
> different number from the people they'd been issued to.
Their records were
> enitrely clear on the subject: 666-registered cars had no more or fewer
> accidents than others, but these people couldn't be convinced.
So eventually
> they gave up on it. Although last I heard Cliff Stohl had one.
>
> > I'd change it. Without hesitation.
I move.,The other part adds up to be the number of the whore of
Babylon(to xtians),Ishtar..love it.Panther and Puck the beast and the
whore all on one phoneline!!
> I'd love one. Or anything else as easy to remember. 666 1313 would be
> quite good - nobody'd need to be told twice.
U Panther
Phil Sumner
>Anyone with a 666 tat anywhere?
>
>999 - the beast on Nemesis at Alton Towers?
>
On a totally different note, just time to mention this important
newsflash:
BEWARE 0.666 ----- the sign of the millibeast
<sss>
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Aidan Skinner
> I'd love one. Or anything else as easy to remember. 666 1313 would be
>quite good - nobody'd need to be told twice.
It would probably mean that you lived near-ish to Bonnyrigg/Dalkeith
though, which would be bad...
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Stormbringer
<phil-99@-at-geocities.com> squeaked....
>>
>>Anyone with a 666 tat anywhere?
>>
>>999 - the beast on Nemesis at Alton Towers?
>>
>>Anyone called "Damon" like to tell some stories?
>
>
>On a totally different note, just time to mention this important
>newsflash:
> BEWARE 0.666 ----- the sign of the millibeast
>
And of course, just one door up....
668 - The neighbour of the beast.
Tee, and if you will; Hee.
>>-8>
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Graham Clark
>
> On 10 Aug 1998 10:57:37 +0100, Graham Clark <g...@gunna.sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I'd love one. Or anything else as easy to remember. 666 1313 would be
> >quite good - nobody'd need to be told twice.
>
> It would probably mean that you lived near-ish to Bonnyrigg/Dalkeith
> though, which would be bad...
Some friends once had 666 1326, and indeed they lived in Dalkeith. They
all survived the experience, although now that you mention it two of them are
now seriously mentally ill. I hadn't suspected a connection before.
Beliar&Belphegor
Aidan Skinner wrote in message ...
>On 10 Aug 1998 10:57:37 +0100, Graham Clark <g...@gunna.sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'd love one. Or anything else as easy to remember. 666 1313 would be
>>quite good - nobody'd need to be told twice.
>
>It would probably mean that you lived near-ish to Bonnyrigg/Dalkeith
>though, which would be bad...
Or Portland, Oregon. Which may or may not be bad.
Colin Batchelor
> Some friends once had 666 1326, and indeed they lived in Dalkeith. They
> all survived the experience, although now that you mention it two of them are
> now seriously mentally ill. I hadn't suspected a connection before.
Do you mean a connection with the phone number
or with having lived in Dalkeith?
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Ron Vale
Nice Thread
Saw PEN 15 on a Range Rover in Dover 4 years back
any others out there worth seeing?
Graham Clark
Beliar&Belphegor
John Wright wrote in message <6qrrqf$1k...@newton.cc.rl.ac.uk>...
I was sure that somewhere near Portland 666 was a common telephone number
prefix. Some friends of mine from the Portland area swore that was how
their old number began. In hindsight, they easily could have been a couple
of lying bastards so don't look too harshly on me for being so
gullible........
too bad. I so wanted to move to Portland, too. Well, then again...
Adrian Vickers
>
> Saw PEN 15 on a Range Rover in Dover 4 years back
>
> any others out there worth seeing?
I saw FU 2 (on "The Car's the Star" the other night); which
lived on an E-Type owned by a porn queen (I forget her name).