UK Registration Plates

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Rees2000

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5 months

Thursday 8th August
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From something someone said about vehicle registration starting in 1904 I read the following on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration...

It can tell you where your early registered plates were registered so will give you an idea where the owner lived.

ferret50

1,591 posts

16 months

Thursday 8th August
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Rees2000 said:
From something someone said about vehicle registration starting in 1904 I read the following on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration...

It can tell you where your early registered plates were registered so will give you an idea where the owner lived.
In the olden days, when I was a lad, each County Council was responsible for regestering both vehicles and driver licences within their areas.

This was centralized into DVLA in Swansea, and now things take much longer than they used to.