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"I've just bought........"

......my very first car, woooh. It's a little Ford Escort, 1.4, K reg. Good little runner considering its age though, and it'll do me for a start. Freedom at last.

:)

But in order I mean.

As in, before it started towards the end of the alphabet did it not?
And now (or at least, before) it started from the beginning.
Did it not?

Azul wrote:
> A to, I think, W.
> And before that it was Z-A. Or something.
> It was reversed, anyway.
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Nah. Originally they were like ABC 123 D where the D corresponded to the year. They started at B and went through the alphabet, missing out the vowels and Q.

Then they went like ...

A 123 BCD where A corresponded to the year and part of the BCD (I think the CD) were a code for the area it was originally registered.

talk about making something simple complicated....

Lindgren wrote:
> Weird, and you can tell the year from that?

Well, erm, y'see...

But yeah, as Timmargh says, it's easier with the new ones.
Apparently.

Well, the current ones are like this:-

AB 01 CDE

AB is a two letter code for the area it was originally registered in, e.g. VO or VX is Worcestershire.

01 corresponds to the year. The first digit: 0 for the first half of the year, 5 for the second half. The second digit is the end of the year, e.g. 02 is the first half of 2002 and 54 will be the second half of 2004.

CDE are three random letters to make the plate unique.

Weird, and you can tell the year from that?

Lindgren wrote:
> I never did understand car regs in the UK

A to, I think, W.
And before that it was Z-A. Or something.
It was reversed, anyway.

Timmargh wrote:
> You mean the number plates?

Yes

You mean the number plates?

I never did understand car regs in the UK