Old Number Plate.
 

Spotted a Range Rover today with number plate ABC324. How old would this plate be?.

Also noticed no MOT.

The earliest would be 1932 for a three letter combination.

Registered in Leistershire see here:
http://www.cvpg.co.uk/REG.pdf
best estimate pre 1963

Old Number Plate.
 

It’s a private plate registered in 2008.

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The plate would be pre early 1950s.

Initially, the marks were made up of a local council identifier code of up to 3 letters, followed by a random number, e.g. ABC 123.
In the early 1950s, as numbers started to run out, the components were reversed, giving rise to registrations in the format 123 ABC.

That was until 1963 when the Suffix plates came out.

Not always though, I had a 1964 Morris Minor, with a registration of 770 CAN and that was registered in London in 1964. :D

My 1963 landrover was 524 TAU

Still on the road some were in an enthusiasts hands i rekkon - just look up the MOT history!

I bet the owner looks at his plate and wishes it was abc 123 lol

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I like my mate's number plate: B166LES :D

You should call him Big(g) Les to wind him up :getmecoat:

Kent registrations were different. Our 1964 Consul Capri from Dover was 8938 KR.

That cannot be a 1964 number as all councils had to go with the year letter suffix by then. More likely a old cherished number on a new vehicle

Sorry but you are wrong, original number from new. We bought the car in 1979 and it took two years to rebuild. This is a scan from Custom Car in 1982
http://www.verulam-angling.co.uk/tem...82-cropped.jpg

First registered in July 64 it still shows as SORN by the current owners (we sold in '96 to fund a house move), the last MOT expiring in 2008.

Yes, I think you are correct.
Local councils issued these plates when they had run out of their allocation of three number and three digit plates, during the suffix transition.
This was true of other councils and are now rare and valuable.

My father, and I, rebuilt an XWD Royal Enfield in the early 70s and asked the local vehicle licencing office for an age related registration.
As they must have run out of three number and three digit allocation, we were given 7337 PP. (this was in Buckinghamshire, where the County allocation was BH, PP or KX)

Needless to say, my father was rather miffed when he sold the bike and it was stripped of the registration and it was sold off for a pretty penny. :duh:

I'll give you a tenner for it. :D:getmecoat:

I believe we started on C plates in 1965

A number of counties went to that format when they ran out of the 123 XYZ series.
I don't know why they weren't using ABC 123B by 64 though!?

Kent or areas of Kent must have had plenty to use up, as I say 64/5 on a C plate were the first of the new style registrations to be seen in the area.
Just found this online
"The last letter, in the above example A, is the 'age identifier' or 'year letter' and shows the date when the vehicle was first registered- in this case during 1963. Year letters were not compulsory until 1965, so a vehicle may have been registered during 1963 and1964 without a year letter"

That would depend on the number, and the letters. If a NI it'll be worth anywhere from 1k to high teens. Incidentally if it was an early NI plate, with two letters and a number one, it'll be 6 figures, after years of trying, that was the rumoured 'figure' my old boss paid for 1IA. (He already has IIA1 and IIA3).

A family friend has two letter two digit English plate, probably worth a few grand now, but I could guarantee he would have bought it for a couple of hundred lol.

Incidentally mgz plates are slowly dribbling onto the market ;)



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ABC was issued in Leicester from Jan 1936 to Feb 37.

KR was Kent, May 1964 to Oct 64.