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History Of UK Car Registration System

"The Motor Car Act 1903" started The letters I Q Z O and U were never used
everything off. It said that every car as a suffix letter in fact I Q and Z were
had to be registered with a county never used at all. By 1983 they faced
council or county borough council, and the same problem but deftly extended the
every car had to display a unique system by reversing the number plate
identifying number issued to them by such giving a letter first then up to 3
a council. numbers then a space then 3 more letters.
Initially each council was issued one The first letter now gave the age of the
letter to use on the number plates , they car. Prefix number plate system
could not have known how popular the The Prefix Number Plate System
motor car was to become and as the number Table of "Age identifier " Prefix
of cars increased they quickly ran out of Letters.
combinations ,so they started to use two A 1 Aug 83 - 31 Jul 84 H 1 Aug 90 - 31
and then three letter combinations. By Jul 91 R 1 Aug 97 - 31 Jul 98
1963 several councils were close to the B 1 Aug 84 - 31 Jul 85 J 1 Aug 91 - 31
end of their allocation, so a 7th digit Jul 92 S 1 Aug 98 - 28 Feb 99
was added to the Number Plate System. C 1 Aug 85 - 31 Jul 86 K 1 Aug 92 - 31
This extra digit was a letter ,so post Jul 93 T 1 Mar 99 - 31 Aug 99
1963 numbers had three letters then a D 1 Aug 86 - 31 Jul 87 L 1 Aug 93 - 31
space then up to 3 numbers and then Jul 94 V 1 Sep 99 - 29 Feb 00
another letter this last letter gave the E 1 Aug 87 - 31 Jul 88 M 1 Aug 94 - 31
age of the car. Jul 95 W 1 Mar 00 - 31 Aug 00
Suffix Number Plate System F 1 Aug 88 - 31 Jul 89 N 1 Aug 95 - 31
The Suffix Number Plate System Jul 96 X 1 Sep 00 - 28 Feb 01
Table of "Age identifier " Suffix G 1 Aug 89 - 31 Jul 90 P 1 Aug 96 - 31
Letters. Jul 97 Y 1 Mar 01 - 31 Aug 01
A 1 Jan 63 - 31 Dec 63 H 1 Aug 69 - 31 It may be noted that the letters I and Z
Jul 70 R 1 Aug 76 - 31 Jul 77 ( used for N.Ireland) are missing as are
B 1 Jan 64 - 31 Dec 64 J 1 Aug 70 - 31 Q ( reserved for kit cars and repaired
Jul 71 S 1 Aug 77 - 31 Jul 78 write offs etc) and the letter U ( reason
C 1 Jan 65 - 31 Dec 65 K 1 Aug 71 - 31 unknown).
Jul 72 T 1 Aug 78 - 31 Jul 79 By 2001 the problem was looming again and
D 1 Jan 66 - 31 Dec 66 L 1 Aug 72 - 31 the current system was introduced. Now
Jul 73 V 1 Aug 79 - 31 Jul 80 each number plate has 7 digits and the
E 1 Jan 67 - 31 Jul 67 M 1 Aug 73 - 31 first two letters give the region of the
Jul 74 W 1 Aug 80 - 31 Jul 81 country where the car was first
F 1 Aug 67 - 31 Jul 68 N 1 Aug 74 - 31 registered, followed by two numbers which
Jul 75 X 1 Aug 81 - 31 Jul 82 give the age of the car and then three
G 1 Aug 68 - 31 Jul 69 P 1 Aug 75 - 31 random letters . An example of this could
Jul 76 Y 1 Aug 82 - 31 Jul 83 be NE51 XXX. The NE tells you the car is
You may notice that a further from the North East of England (a table
complication to the number system came in of these region identifiers is below ).
1967 when , under pressure from the motor The 51 tells you it was registered in
car industry the changeover date was September 2001 and the last three letters
moved to August in an attempt to smooth mean nothing. Current Number Plate
out new car puchasing by the public. It system Current U.K. Number Plates System
may also be noted that the letters I and The first two digits of each car
Z ( used for N.Ireland) are missing as registration denote the area of the
are Q ( reserved for kit cars and country where the vehicle was first
repaired write offs etc) and the letter U registered.
( reason unknown).




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