| Personalised car
registrations can be described in a variety
of different ways – personalised plates,
private number
plates and cherished number plates to name
but a few! In ‘politically correct’
Britain a car registration number is the combination
of numbers and letters that is assigned to your
vehicle so that it has a unique identity. On the
road this sequence is displayed on the number
plates which are now made from an acrylic
(plastic) material and firmly fixed to your vehicle.
Car registrations have been issued to vehicles
since 1903 in carefully planned sequences or series.
When all the available combinations in each series
were allocated, then a new series was issued and
the Government soon realised that it would also
be useful if the series gave some indication of
the age of the vehicle. Our records thus tell
us where and when a plate was issued and what
combinations exist from which you can select your
private plates.
Starting with A1 and moving up through the sequences
to YYY 999 it became necessary to add a letter
to the end of the number plates in 1963. This
letter became the significant ‘year indicator’
and the plates were called suffix car registrations
to describe this. Thus in this year the new series
began with AAA 1A.Each year gave rise to the next
letter of the alphabet although the letters IOUQ
and Z were never issued to avoid them being mistaken
for numbers or other letters which looked similar.
By 1983 this series was used up and so the ‘year
indicator’ and numbers were moved to the
beginning of the plates to start the prefix car
registrations series, starting with A1 AAA.
By September 2001 it was necessary to begin the
latest ‘current-style’ car registrations
series which effectively stopped the use of letters
to indicate a vehicle’s age. Nowadays the
new number plates begin with a two letter area
indicator code followed by a two digit number
indicating the age of the vehicle, followed by
a three letter combination made up of random letters.
TT53 FAB is an example of a current style car
registration.
We have sellers of all the types of registration
marks mentioned above. To start searching now
just use the "Find Number Plates" link
at the top of this page.
For
more information on car registrations please click
here
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