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| 1712.1 | | MAJORS::ALFORD | | Wed Mar 04 1992 15:15 | 5 |
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does it still work like that ?
I thought they'd stopped that number plate letters/city now...
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| 1712.2 | A full topic for this????? | PLAYER::WINPENNY | | Wed Mar 04 1992 15:19 | 7 |
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Why not stick it in the small questions topic?
Nothing more constructive to say.
Chris
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| 1712.3 | | COMICS::WEGG | Some hard boiled eggs & some nuts. | Wed Mar 04 1992 15:31 | 7 |
| >> Which county, or even better city, was the car registerted in?
The county is West Glamorgan. To be specific Swansea. :-)
Where the car was at the time is another matter!
Ian.
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| 1712.4 | Do I get full marks ? | CHEFS::PALMER | | Fri Mar 06 1992 11:49 | 1 |
| Chelmsford, Essex.
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| 1712.5 | Congratulations! | YOUWOT::BLACK | Martin Black @REO 0223-244509 | Fri Mar 06 1992 17:33 | 9 |
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Congratulations, full marks. I spoke to a friendly P.C, well as close
as possible anyway, and he said the last 2 digits designate the area,
i.e VW for Chelmsford, with the other digit Y designating the year of
issue of the registration.
Now for the next question ....
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| 1712.6 | | NSDC::SIMPSON | | Mon Mar 09 1992 07:46 | 9 |
| RE: -.1
>> Congratulations, full marks. I spoke to a friendly P.C, well as close
>> as possible anyway, and he said the last 2 digits designate the area,
>> i.e VW for Chelmsford, with the other digit Y designating the year of
>> issue of the registration.
Unless the UK has changed recently, it is the letter 'J' that designates the
year of issue.
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| 1712.7 | Re .6 -It hasn't! | NEWOA::SAXBY | Is that IT?!?! | Mon Mar 09 1992 08:49 | 8 |
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Next question?
What does this P.C. friend of yours know about crime? He seems to know
very little about vehicle registration! :^)
Mark
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| 1712.8 | | COMICS::WEGG | Some hard boiled eggs & some nuts. | Mon Mar 09 1992 08:57 | 3 |
| Maybe a typo. The Y designates the *MONTH* of issue.
ian.
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| 1712.9 | a-y 1-999!!?? | YUPPY::SACKMANJ | I was dreaming of the past... | Mon Mar 09 1992 13:24 | 10 |
| Nope again!
take A nnn BCD
A is year of registration
CD is the issuing district
A999BCD is followed by A 1 CCD (if they gave the 1-20 away!)
Jon.
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| 1712.10 | The Irish system.... | MACNAS::JDOOLEY | Go on outa dat,we don't believe ya | Mon Mar 09 1992 17:18 | 32 |
| A similar version to that system applied, until 1987 in the republic
of Ireland.
Each county registers a car when it is first bought new or brought
second-hand into the state from elsewhere for the first time.
The new system takes the form:-
XX yy ZZZZ or XX y ZZZZZ
where xx is the last two digits of the year of
registration, yy is the county designator and ZZZZ is the number of
the vehicle registered, starting with 1 at 1st dat of business in the
New year and increasing upwards as the year goes by.
Instead of two letters in the county designator some large population
centres have only one letter ( eg. D for Dublin) and a five digit
number to allow for the bigger number of cars one would expect to find
in a large population centre.
The system allows people to tell at a glance the age of the car but it
has led to a dramatic peaking of sales in the New Year after a
corresponding fall at the end of an old year as people are anxious to
obtain the prestige value of a new registration as early in the New
year as possible.
It also reveals the wannabee yuppies who purchase second-hand Mercs in
order to appear "wealthy".......
A comparison of other European systems would be nice here, if it
doesn't fall too far outside the scope of this conference.
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| 1712.11 | | PLAYER::BROWNL | Just who is Victor Ludorum? | Mon Mar 09 1992 18:02 | 3 |
| It's all been done in Euro_motoring, at some length too, I might add.
Laurie.
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