Re: Dating car registrations

#11

I had a book on Personalised plates(think it was by Noel Woodall???) which
listed thousands of personalised plates and who they belonged to. In the
back of the book was a list of all the Registration authorities and the
letters they used and an even longer list of registration letters and the
dates they were issued. I passed it on to a work colleague who was for ever
asking me to borrow it. (He and many of his pals have vintage bikes) A
search on ebay or amazon may reveal books for sale.
"Leroy Curtis" <leroy (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote

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Petert <peter.thomas (AT) brightchro (DOT) me.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

Anyone have any idea if there is anywhere where I can date car
registration numbers? i.e. those issued before 1963 in England & Wales.
It would be helpful in dating some old photo's I have

Try <Http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/index.jsp> and follow
the link on the left-hand side to vehicle enquiry. Works for me most of
the time.
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Leroy Curtis

Please replace "nospam" with "baram" in my address if you wish to
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#12

"Charles Hamilton" <dyolfknip (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

I had a book on Personalised plates(think it was by Noel Woodall???)
which listed thousands of personalised plates and who they belonged
to. In the back of the book was a list of all the Registration
authorities and the letters they used and an even longer list of
registration letters and the dates they were issued. I passed it on
to a work colleague who was for ever asking me to borrow it. (He and
many of his pals have vintage bikes) A search on ebay or amazon may
reveal books for sale.

Certainly does. See
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=Noel+Wooda ll&_sacat=See-All-Categories

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Ian

#13

Jim Warren wrote:

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http://www.numberplates.com/issued.aspx

The very first plate I tried (pre-suffix, one of my fleet) was not
only completely wrong about where the plate was issued, but didn't
even take a guess on when.

I tried another. It guessed at a year - and was wrong by a couple of
decades.

I tried a few of my former cars
Information correct for a 1957 Standard 10
Jowett Javelin shown as 1952, the year after it actually was
Triumph Mayflower was correct at 1952

So I agree it was not spot on, but mine wasn't as bad as your test.

I was quite impressed it knew two of my previous were re-registrations
(HFG 489T and BHY 130H) but it got the year wrong on 9994 MY - it was
1960 not 1961.

Locations were all correct on all the ones I tried.

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Simon

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