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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