Real Good Number Plates Vol. 6

[BenS94]

Very very pleased to have bagged this original 1962 registration from my home county. I can certainly recommend the seller. Just wish I had the cash to buy one as good as CRA 1G (or... CRA 1C )

[RSTurboPaul]

BenS94 said:

Very very pleased to have bagged this original 1962 registration from my home county. I can certainly recommend the seller. Just wish I had the cash to buy one as good as CRA 1G (or... CRA 1C )

Ace, congrats!



Have you started browsing for your next purchase options yet, because you definitely aren't buying any more, it's 'just in case something interesting comes up'...? lol

[BenS94]

RSTurboPaul said:

BenS94 said:

Very very pleased to have bagged this original 1962 registration from my home county. I can certainly recommend the seller. Just wish I had the cash to buy one as good as CRA 1G (or... CRA 1C )

Ace, congrats!



Have you started browsing for your next purchase options yet, because you definitely aren't buying any more, it's 'just in case something interesting comes up'...? lol

Of course I have! Particularly my initials... or another local dateless...

[hmg]

[v15ben]

Tasty one tonight.
DAN 54K on an X5 near Leeds.

[Sir Bagalot]

RSTurboPaul said:

It would be cool to do a whole trawl of the DVLA database (via that PartialPlate search website) to work out how many there are in total left (or at least which are known to DVLA) and which letters are the rarest.

Feel free to do that, I'm busy enough with the 1x1 site

On a serious note I know of two people who would have a good idea of the numbers.

[NEC3]

1 SO on Silver Range Rover in Pudsey. Great looking plate.

[Origin Unknown]

Black RR on the M4 near J10 last night

8 EN

Correctly spaced too, better restraint than me, I'd have 100% misspaced as 8EN

[CRA1G]

Origin Unknown said:

Black RR on the M4 near J10 last night

8 EN

Correctly spaced too, better restraint than me, I'd have 100% misspaced as 8EN

I'd have thought it could well be initials.... Either way nice plate that looks like a bargain now... Sold for £6K + the bits in Oct 96.

[BenS94]

40 SB spotted today on a Blue Audi Q3 Sportback.

[ArmaghMan]

CRA1G said:

Origin Unknown said:

Black RR on the M4 near J10 last night

8 EN

Correctly spaced too, better restraint than me, I'd have 100% misspaced as 8EN

I'd have thought it could well be initials.... Either way nice plate that looks like a bargain now... Sold for £6K + the bits in Oct 96.

CRA1G I normally bow to your knowledge but have
to disagree here.
8 EN has to be worth a whole pile more as BEN than as 8 EN.
If the initials are EN sell 8 EN to a wealthy Ben and buy 1 -7 EN or EN 1-7 and pocket the change.

[CRA1G]

ArmaghMan said:

CRA1G I normally bow to your knowledge but have
to disagree here.
8 EN has to be worth a whole pile more as BEN than as 8 EN.
If the initials are EN sell 8 EN to a wealthy Ben and buy 1 -7 EN or EN 1-7 and pocket the change.

I never said it wasn't...? But this is the Sold 1-10 'EN' there's not a huge difference anyway...

[Geertsen]

CRA1G said:

ArmaghMan said:

CRA1G I normally bow to your knowledge but have
to disagree here.
8 EN has to be worth a whole pile more as BEN than as 8 EN.
If the initials are EN sell 8 EN to a wealthy Ben and buy 1 -7 EN or EN 1-7 and pocket the change.

I never said it wasn't...? But this is the Sold 1-10 'EN' there's not a huge difference anyway...

I think that reinforces the suggestion it’s ‘Ben’. The No.1 plate, ‘Zen’ and ‘Ben’ are more than double the other prices.

[G-wiz]

M840 BMW

On a blue BMW 8 series.

Slough area.

[Johnspex]

PU55CAT on a black Saab convertible in Exeter.
H15REG on a white Mustang on the A361.


They both looked legally spaced, no deformation of the digits or dodgy screws.

[droopsnoot]

RSTurboPaul said:

It would be cool to do a whole trawl of the DVLA database (via that PartialPlate search website) to work out how many there are in total left (or at least which are known to DVLA) and which letters are the rarest.

Of the first 500 1x4 I've checked, there are seven on vehicles. Two of those seven are on vehicles from 1903, and one is from 1923. The one from 1923 is between the two from 1903, but I don't know how to check when the plate was issued so I don't know whether that suggests the middle one has been transferred to the 1923 vehicle.

The rest are either gone, or on retention - I don't if there's a way to find out which it is.

[NomduJour]

The original-issue 4x1s are from 1953 to 1962, when councils started running out of number-first plates.

[Pincher]

Nicked this from the Insta page of my local car wash - have seen it around a few times but not for a while now.

[RSTurboPaul]

droopsnoot said:

RSTurboPaul said:

It would be cool to do a whole trawl of the DVLA database (via that PartialPlate search website) to work out how many there are in total left (or at least which are known to DVLA) and which letters are the rarest.

Of the first 500 1x4 I've checked, there are seven on vehicles. Two of those seven are on vehicles from 1903, and one is from 1923. The one from 1923 is between the two from 1903, but I don't know how to check when the plate was issued so I don't know whether that suggests the middle one has been transferred to the 1923 vehicle.

The rest are either gone, or on retention - I don't if there's a way to find out which it is.

Different letters for 1x4 sequences took different periods of time to run through, so without one of the known reference books it can be difficult to work out which might have come first if comparing different letters, but a given letter would have been issued in number order (usually - some exceptions IIRC, of course... lol) so I would think it likely the 1923 car had it transferred on at some point in time (which could have been anywhere from date of first registration to yesterday, AIUI).

Not knowing if plates are on retention paperwork or lost is a PITA - I guess the only way to keep track would be to review the entire range of 1x4 combinations every [insert period of choice here] and see what might now be showing up that wasn't previously (and which have 'disappeared' off the list).

[droopsnoot]

^ I figured that would be the case, that they'd be issued in order. I was checking A1000 onwards, so the three I mention are all Axxxx plates.