Appropriate registration numbers on cars...

[Gunk]

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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Not very ecologically friendly
you have to take both cars everywhere and always park them in the correct order
although it is cool

 

[mistyoptic]

Not very ecologically friendly
you have to take both cars everywhere and always park them in the correct order
although it is cool

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...

 

[FishFright]

There's a company somewhere around here that runs a fleet of cement mixers with M1XER, M1XUR, and M1XAR.


On the old system, OO was Essex County Council, so there used to be lots of POO... and LOO.... around here.

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Linda Lovelace ?

ETA Doh of course it was Fiona Richmond !

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have a friend from school who is very interested in busses
managed to turn a hobby (bus spotting - and you though train spotters were weird!!!)
by getting a degree in ENgineering and, after a few jobs as an engineer in Bus garages, spent most of his working life as a lecturer in integrated transport

Anyway - to the point
One day we were in the pub and I mentioned a plate I had seen on a coach - turns out a lot of coach companies have a policy of using private plates on all their coaches so no-one can tell how old they are
They can paint them and change the graphics - and even the seats etc - and it looks pretty new - they don;t want the number plates showing it is getting on a bit!

 

[Mike_P]

One day we were in the pub and I mentioned a plate I had seen on a coach - turns out a lot of coach companies have a policy of using private plates on all their coaches so no-one can tell how old they are
They can paint them and change the graphics - and even the seats etc - and it looks pretty new - they don;t want the number plates showing it is getting on a bit!

Same with buses, the very frequent
Harrogate - Knaresborough service for example has vehicles upto 19 years old running it but which were heavily refurbished a few years back and given "cherished" registration plates.

 

[presta]

I imagine the DVLA don't issue
PEN1S
K155 ASS
and
P155 OFF

I thought that reg number (U1) belonged to Leeds City Council, was on the Mayors car

The big black limo belonging to Essex County Council had F1, or 1F, I forget which (or maybe they had both).

POO was used on several of the works rally Escorts in the mid/late 70s including the Russell Brookes / Paul White "Heat For Hire" car that finished second on the 1979 Lombard RAC Rally.

At that time Ford Rally Sport was based at the Ford test track on Boreham airfield just outside Chelmsford, a lot of it's now a gravel pit, as is Rivenhall airfield which used to be leased by my employers. There is (or was) a company based at RAF Bradwell Bay airfield who prepared vintage Ford rally cars for events like Goodwood.

 

[Gunk]

I imagine the DVLA don't issue
PEN1S

PEN 15 was issued

 

[Slick]

Completed my first decent ride of the year today and was easily exhausted, but I genuinely nearly fell off when I was overtaken by the B11 KING.

 

[mistyoptic]

Saw T1 DLY today on a family sized estate.

I felt it should be on a Smart or Aygo or similar

 

[presta]

I saw 6OD, with the 6 fiddled to look like G. It was on one of these with black tinted windows, which struck me as just the sort of car He would be driving.

 

[Alex321]

PEN 15 was issued

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No it wasn't.

That car is not on the road at that point, and they have obviously just put a fake plate on it for advertising purposes.

 

[neil_merseyside]

PEN 15 was issued

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I suppose a small car for the Caucasian nkob gag is far cheaper than buying say a hearse/stretch limo for the other end of the scale.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

No it wasn't.

That car is not on the road at that point, and they have obviously just put a fake plate on it for advertising purposes.

It was definitely issued and used on UK roads, displayed on the Mercedes of Steve Parrish (former motorcycle racer). It may since have been withdrawn though, as it no longer returns any details from DVLA.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It was definitely issued and used on UK roads, displayed on the Mercedes of Steve Parrish (former motorcycle racer). It may since have been withdrawn though, as it no longer returns any details from DVLA.

Have to say I thought it was issued, I seem to remember seeing it at Cadwell Park, which would fit in with Steve Parrish, I actually thought it was PEN 1S not PEN 15 I also recollect a newspaper article apologising for it's release & that it had been done in error.

Why I thought it was an S & issued in 1977 when I would have been going to Cadwell Park to watch the racing 1978 on