Reply to: Personal number plates

[Sysman]

In the car park at the retail outlet for scan.co.uk in Bolton, I saw MST3K, which I thought was rather niche.

I've seen L 1 FTS, which I believe belonged to someone who did stairlifts for disabled and old folk.

His reputation was up there with double glazing salesmen ;(

[FatLazyContractor]

No. Nobel Drive. SAP moved out years ago.

They still have an office and their training centre in Feltham at Clockhouse place.

[NotAllThere]

Was this one at the Clockhouse place in Feltham?

No. Nobel Drive. SAP moved out years ago.

[DannyF1966]

In the car park at the retail outlet for scan.co.uk in Bolton, I saw MST3K, which I thought was rather niche.

[FatLazyContractor]

I've seen a taxi with the plate 1 XAT which seemed reasonable, a Porsche with A 911 ONO. And a sad consultant with R 3 SAP in the SAP training centre carpark.

Was this one at the Clockhouse place in Feltham?

[NotAllThere]

I've seen a taxi with the plate 1 XAT which seemed reasonable, a Porsche with A 911 ONO. And a sad consultant with R 3 SAP in the SAP training centre carpark.

[barrydidit]

The local authorities have quite a few low numbers, presumably because they were the original owners. I saw AG 1 on a very nice BMW police car driven by obviously senior officers.

Permie benefits!

[Sysman]

I have a personalised plate, as far as you can in Germany, the only trouble is, it starts with DA

German number plates consist of either 1, 2 or 3 letter indicating the district, i.e F for Frankfurt, FÜ for Fürth or WAN for Herne followed by 1 or 2 letters which normally indicate an area in that district and then 1 to 4 numbers. This can lead to some good combinations although some are banned, i.e. S for Stuttgart followed by S or LM for Limburg followed by AA (LMAA means Leck mich am Arsch - kiss my arse) although I have seen that on older vehicles.

Swiss number plates are boring in contrast. They are basically the 2 letter Canton mnemonic followed by a sequential number, and you get to keep the same number for life.

This means that you can roughly guess the age of the registered owner from the number I got one which is about right for my age.

There is of course a market for low numbers. Families are allowed to pass these down through generations but ones that come free go up for auction.

The local authorities have quite a few low numbers, presumably because they were the original owners. I saw AG 1 on a very nice BMW police car driven by obviously senior officers.

[Sysman]

A quick Google says this reg doesn't exist.

Back in the 80s someone in my local pub found out that displaying a false number carried a piddly little fine, something like 5 or 15 quid.

He picked a desirable number but got caught pretty quickly. Maybe he bragged about it too much.

I doubt you could get away with it nowadays with all these number plate recognition thingies around.

[Troll]

I saw a 4x4 on Old St roundabout with the plates I5LAM - where is your shotgun when you need it

[RetSet]

Maybe he got that to stop his wife borrowing his car?

I got overtaken on the M40 by a young Asian man in a Merc with J1HAD. I did wonder at the time whether this meant he got pulled over all the time.

I was going to mention that plate.

At the time that number would normally have been issued there was great play in the press that DVLC said this particular number would never be issued.

[Lockhouse]

I want a nice white one

What's your name, Jordan?

[tarbera]

I've got W12 xxx on retention, been looking for a Bentley GT for the past two months; can't find the right car.

I want a nice white one

[Lockhouse]

I've got W12 xxx on retention, been looking for a Bentley GT for the past two months; can't find the right car.

[Andy Hallett]

I've got S3 GIT