https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-pl ... ber-plates
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ber-plates
Jonathan
That's from p 9 of the leaflet INF104 Vehicle registration numbers and number plates
- characters must be 79mm tall
- characters (except the number 1 or letter I) must be
50mm wide
- the character stroke (the thickness of the black print)
must be 14mm
- the space between characters must be 11mm
- the space between the age identifier and the random
letters must be 33mm
- the margins at the top, bottom and side of the plate
must be 11mm
- vertical space between the age identifier and the
random letters must be 19mm
That makes me more cross cos the car in my post was 2002 -- what a little creep Mr Jobsworth was. The change to bigger figures was 2001 according to your findings.
Mentioned a couple of pages back - the plate (once?) belonged to the motorcycle racer Steve Parish (but I guess he's grown up now, although I don't think Clarkson has):
We used to have the AA handobooks which were great because as you have demonstrated they had the origin of number plates listed. Our entertainment on holiday journeys to Cornwall was spotting where various vehicles came from. Similar whilst at the car park for Daymer Bay (mostly) we would again spot car regs. We had 1 vehicle with MOV, and I remember someone asking if CV was Coventry.. by then I knew it was Cornish.Mick F wrote: ↑24 Nov 2021, 10:01am Just dug out my old AA book.
1972/73.
Back in the old days, me and Mrs Mick F would tick off the reg numbers we saw whilst going up and down this fair country of ours, and the list is almost full. Missing are a few Irish ones, and a couple from the SE of England.
You are correct regarding Birmingham Borough.
O and OA through to OC
Then OE to OH
Then OJ to ON
OP, OV and OX
So it was lucky to get COV 1C, but it could well have been COV 1D instead!
Has anyone mentioned the notorious 2014 Top Gear number plate incident, which led to their having to flee Argentina?
a) I'm not interested enough to read them allphilvantwo wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021, 1:29pm Read through the posts and find out!
...........or wait until someone posts a link to it!!