Re: LRO: British Registration Codes

From: Frank Elson (frankelson@felson.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 18:01:16 EDT

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    I don't see how that's contrary to anything I said...
    also, Ian hasn't pointed out that spacing interesting letters and numbers
    (Y45TAN) is illegal in this country and, yes, I know that people do illegal
    things but that's the way it is.
    Best Cheers

    Frank
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Ian Stuart <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk>
    To: <lro@Works.Team.Net>
    Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:44 AM
    Subject: Re: LRO: British Registration Codes

    > On Wednesday 06 June 2001 08:19, Hope Peter wrote:
    > > > Frank Elson sent a long list explaining the british reg codes.
    > > > Both the year of registration and county registered in.
    > > > If people like I can gather the emails into one html and put on y
    > > > web
    > Just a small point, contrary to something Frank said:
    >
    > Garages are issues a block of registrations, as appropriate for their
    > area.
    >
    > What often happens, and happened when we bought my wifes New Beetle a
    > couple of months ago, is that we looked through the list of available
    > registrations and selected the number we liked the best.
    >
    > The lists sent for general use excluded the "valuable" numbers: 1-25,
    > 88, 888, 666, 999, 100, etc... Also combinations that seem to make
    > words/names: for example Y 45 TAN can be re-spaced as Y 4 5TAN (Y for
    > Stan)
    >
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