Not for Train Spotters!

[mick2me 3,033]

Remember sitting on the kerb with a pencil and piece of paper, collecting car numbers? Pretty simple in those days to work out how old a car was, and where it came from too. Not like todays registrations, heres a list to remind us?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_car_number_plates shows more interesting stuff

Suffix series

Letter - Dates of issue

A January 1963 – December 1963

B January 1964 – December 1964

C January 1965 – December 1965

D January 1966 – December 1966

E January 1967 – July 1967

F August 1967 – July 1968

G August 1968 – July 1969

H August 1969 – July 1970

J August 1970 – July 1971

K August 1971 – July 1972

L August 1972 – July 1973

M August 1973 – July 1974

N August 1974 – July 1975

P August 1975 – July 1976

R August 1976 – July 1977

S August 1977 – July 1978

T August 1978 – July 1979

V August 1979 – July 1980

W August 1980 – July 1981

X August 1981 – July 1982

Y August 1982 – July 1983

Prefix series

Letter - Dates of issue

A August 1983 – July 1984

B August 1984 – July 1985

C August 1985 – July 1986

D August 1986 – July 1987

E August 1987 – July 1988

F August 1988 – July 1989

G August 1989 – July 1990

H August 1990 – July 1991

J August 1991 – July 1992

K August 1992 – July 1993

L August 1993 – July 1994

M August 1994 – July 1995

N August 1995 – July 1996

P August 1996 – July 1997

R August 1997 – July 1998

S August 1998 – February 1999

T March 1999 – August 1999

V September 1999 – February 2000

W March 2000 – August 2000

X September 2000 – February 2001

Y March 2001 – August 2001

New series post-2001

Year - March - September

2001 — 51

2002 02 52

2003 03 53

2004 04 54

2005 05 55

2006 06 56

2007 07 57

2008 08 58

2009 09 59

2010 10 60

2011 11 61

2012 12 62

2013 13 63

2014 14 64

2015 15 65

2016 16 66

2017 17 67

2018 18 68

2019 19 69

2020 20 70

2021 21 71

2022 22 72

2023 23 73

2024 24 74

2025 25 75

2026 26 76

2027 27 77

2028 28 78

2029 29 79

2030 30 80

2031 31 81

2032 32 82

2033 33 83

2034 34 84

2035 35 85

2036 36 86

2037 37 87

2038 38 88

2039 39 89

2040 40 90

2041 41 91

2042 42 92

2043 43 93

2044 44 94

2045 45 95

2046 46 96

2047 47 97

2048 48 98

2049 49 99

[bamber 128]

Makes me Nottstalgic for the days when you had proper Nottingham City number plates:

AU; TO; TV; VO.

and the little red driver's licence.

[rob237 89]

In the 50's we also collected car numbers by place of registration...

The common Nottingham ones ended with such as AU/TO/TV/VO, and several more.

[Edit: Sorry bamber, you'd posted whilst I was composing - strange how we both remember exactly the same letters, certain there were more Nottm/Notts]

IIRC, RA/RB/RC were Derbyshire, YA/YB/YC were Somerset, RE was Staffs...and so forth.

Cheers

Robt P.

[Beefsteak 305]

Correct me if i'me wrong ,but I am pretty sure that you can still tell where a car is registered (not as localised as it used to be granted but NG is one of the ones you can still get for Nott'm (I think you come under Peterborough now))

And of the second generation as it were ie A 123 ABC . ERA was a Nott'm number

[bamber 128]

Prior to 1974, when the DVLC took over from local authorities, AL, NN and RR were on county number plates.

Nottinghamshire County Council gave 1 ANN as a wedding present when Princess Ann married Mark Phillips. It had been on the council's limousine.

CH, RA, RB and RC were issued by either Derby County Borough or Derbyshire. I can't remember which was which.

After 1974 all those index marks were used by the Nottingham office of the DVLC.

And if you're after a little more motoring nostalgia.

http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/signs/history/history1.html

[radfordred 6,284]

Don't Try This at Home children !!

http://youtu.be/OX8Ta6yJw4M

[Beefsteak 305]

Must be an alien or suttin ( SIC )

[mick2me 3,033]

I suppose an off topic bump is better than no bump at all

Indonesia State Railways install Anti Train Surfing obstacls.

http://www.liveleak....=070_1327586122