Pat, et al,
I have always been a student of British number plates since the days when my
parents found a solution to keep me quiet as soon as I could see out of the
Morris 8 windows.
In reference to Mike's comments about regionally, I always thought our
Oxfordshire numbers were segmented. We thought that FC, JO and WL were for
the city of Oxford and thence seen on many Nuffield factory cars, while UD and
BW were used for the rest of the county. It all depended on what office the
selling garage went to for the original plates, but I never knew what the
original registration process was. Most new cars in Banbury were BW.
In the 50's a company called "Ian Allen" published booklets with all 3-letter
combinations and their issuing locations. We used to "spot" these numbers and
mark them in the book. We did it for steam trains and busses also. Is it any
wonder I ended up in the computer business.
Cheers,
Peter
(ex-pat for only 30 years)
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Mullen
To: NA-MMM
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: British Registration number list
Fellow NA-MMMers,
I found the message at the bottom from Mike Rambour on the British Cars
Autox.net and tested out the URL for myself.
As you see from my response below to Mike, there is a lot of valuable
info on the web site whose URL is:
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/car/carenq
Be patient - the site sometime takes a couple of minutes to come up.
Cheers..... Pat (1936 NB - NA0895)
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Mike,
My UF8475 also came up as not recognised on this site.
However by clicking on "Implementation Documentation" and then on "Area
Codes sorted by Code" OR on "Area Codes sorted by Area" you get a 10
page list (which you can print of course) and this has both your US as
Glasgow and my UF as Brighton.
You can also get the prefixes and suffixes used from the early sixties
on.
One more thing. When I was a Brit some half a century ago I lived just
outside Sutton in Surrey and I always understood that my 1936 Rudge
motorcycle EPA 946 indicated that it had been originally registered in
Sutton (which is a smallish town about 20 miles from Guildford). Chris's
site gives Guildford as the area town for all the codes PA-PH and PJ-PM.
Probably I was mistaken but is there a chance that area codes were
originally allocated to a smaller area than one as large as Guildford or
Glasgow or Brighton, but that later on several codes were combined for
use in larger areas?
If so there might possibly be a source list somewhere which wd enable us
to locate a car's original place of registration with even greater
precision than Chris's own excellent list.
Chris Wallace states that he last updated the lists on 1997 July 30.
Cheers.....Pat (near Vancouver, BC, Canada)
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:14:05 -0800
From: Mike Rambour <mikey@b2systems.com>
Subject: Re: British Registration number list
>www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/car/carenq
My registration shows up as not recognized on this site. From a
1929/30
RAC book the prefix US is Glasgow, I am still trying to get more
information on US 8155 I wrote to The Kithead Trust as someone on this
list
suggested last year and they never responded. I then called them and
the
gentlemen I spoke to said they were backlogged and would answer soon.
That
was last June...oh well at least he did confirm that is a valid number
for
the years 1933-1935.
Mike
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