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History of vehicle registration numbers

farmerdave said:
Two photos of the Lord Mayor's car taken in about December 1987. One photo is of the car itself and the other is with people passing by. I guess the car always keeps the LOM 1 registration but I don't know how often the actual car is changed. Dave.

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Had a lot of fun driving that when it came in for service we would put the flag on and drive it round town with one of the guys sitting in the back waving, people would wave back He He.
 
oldbrit said:
Can anyone tell me what year and make this motor is? My Grandfather Dad Uncle Grandmother and ME the nipper I was born in 1933 so the motor must be a 1935 or so?
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It's a 1930s Morris, one of the bigger ones a 10/4 or 12/4, they looked pretty much the same but with different engines.
 
Thanks, Eric, didn't think is was an 8 as my mate had one and is was smaller, but I'm no vehicle expert so kept my mouth shut. :)

Maurice
 
I had a good friend in the seventies, she was a bit older than me. Her name was Ollie (Olive), she lived in Hall Green. She had an Austin Mini, think it was a pale yellow colour, the reg was SXC...., wonder if she is the same person as you knew, jmadone?
 
JeannetteM said:
I had a good friend in the seventies, she was a bit older than me. Her name was Ollie (Olive), she lived in Hall Green. She had an Austin Mini, think it was a pale yellow colour, the reg was SXC...., wonder if she is the same person as you knew, jmadone?
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Sadly no, I can't recall anyone by that name. It was a red car and she didn't live in Hall Green and I'm far too much of a gentleman to name her here :D :D :D
 
Robert Ensor (bob) said:
Had a lot of fun driving that when it came in for service we would put the flag on and drive it round town with one of the guys sitting in the back waving, people would wave back He He.
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Thinking about this for sum reason Lord Mayors car in the 70's was a Rolls Royce ? not a DS 420 either way they would have come in to Granville St for service, so many cars over the years it hard to remember them all.
 
So my
Austin mini HOP Engine # BOB 1
Jensen interceptor OOG
Chevrolet Suburban COW
Ford Ranchero FOH
Its strange how I can recall my license plate numbers from 45 years ago, my first ever car I drove that was legal with ins etc was 698 GNX.
 
My first was AYL 122 Austin 12 1935 which I got, in exchange for a portable Phillps radio, in 1957. Then RJO 66 Humber Super Snipe (don't remember year as I did not keep it very long) then MDD 823 A45 Countryman. I sold that in 1960. I have had many since then and can remember most - good and bad.
 
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farmerdave said:
Two photos of the Lord Mayor's car taken in about December 1987. One photo is of the car itself and the other is with people passing by. I guess the car always keeps the LOM 1 registration but I don't know how often the actual car is changed. Dave.

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I remember YOB 1 belonged to Dave Hill the guitar player from Slade on his Rolls Royse Silver Cloud, of course the term yobo was used a lot back in the day
 
Robert Ensor (bob) said:
So my
Austin mini HOP Engine # BOB 1
Jensen interceptor OOG
Chevrolet Suburban COW
Ford Ranchero FOH
Its strange how I can recall my license plate numbers from 45 years ago, my first ever car I drove that was legal with ins etc was 698 GNX.
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When we got married one of our wedding presents was a Mini reg. number 16 COB. Sold it about 8 years later. Wished we had kept the reg.
 
How about 451 MON came up on it going towards Redditch from the Maypole island it was on a lotus 4 51MON and it was spaced like that, some one once told me DAV 1 D was on a ambulance.

My old personal license 3025 RE paid 25 quid on a old moggy to get the plate, and the actual plate was the best thing on it !!.
 
Bought a new mini in 65 in Maroon Reg BOP18 C.Had a lot of trouble with it .If you dropped from 4 th to 3rd to overtake on the flat it flattened and spluttered for a few seconds.Had to make sure you had a clear road after Shenstone on the straight.
 
I wonder how many people used one of their old car registration numbers as a basis for a password. I only remember my last UK car reg and use that somewhat changed for most non-bank sites. My bank is totally different! :-)

Maurice
 
Although I understand there were than one white Morris Minor cars used in Open All Hours, at least one had a JOJ registration, with an E suffix. Episodes were not in Birmingham but filmed in South Yorkshire
 
sospiri said:
I wonder how many people used one of their old car registration numbers as a basis for a password. I only remember my last UK car reg and use that somewhat changed for most non-bank sites. My bank is totally different! :)

Maurice
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I used to use an old registration for my less secure log-ins. All was well until a company wanted a password with eight or more digits, later they wanted eight or more digits some of which had to be in upper and lower case, the same company now wants me to change my password to include a symbol. I give up.
 
The problem is they say don't write down passwords. But I defy anyone, other than folk like the late Leslie Welch (the famous Memory Man) to remember them all, especially the more lengthier ones with letters,capitals. numerals and symbols, all of whichmust total more than eight. :eek:
 
My password at work years ago consisted of obscene variations of what a particularly annoying manager could/should do, with a capital F and various numbers. I found it easy to remember
 
This talk of car registration numbers makes me smile ( our first car was UOV 237 ), anyway talk about how times have changed. As a young lad I used to collect rego numbers, yes just write them in a little book. Was I the only one ?
 
FNQBRUMMIE said:
This talk of car registration numbers makes me smile ( our first car was UOV 237 ), anyway talk about how times have changed. As a young lad I used to collect rego numbers, yes just write them in a little book. Was I the only one ?
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I'm sure many youngsters collected car reg numbers in the fifties when I were a lad.
I collected train numbers.
A pal of mine collected car names and the model variants.
Happy days.
 
As well as train spotting at Bromford we used to collect BRS Lorry numbers from the Depot at the back of the station.
 
FNQBRUMMIE said:
This talk of car registration numbers makes me smile ( our first car was UOV 237 ), anyway talk about how times have changed. As a young lad I used to collect rego numbers, yes just write them in a little book. Was I the only one ?
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No, car reg (then tried to find out where they came from and no Google), bus and train, I should have got a life. By the way when you see old cars in films, a lot of them come from a company in Devon that has a stable of old British cars.

Bob
 
I was stood outside the Midland Red works in Carlisle road, Edgbaston in about 1961 looking at the buses. A man came out of the office and asked me if I was 'bus spotting', yes said I. He gave me a 'Midland Red Fleet List' book. I was well made up. I still have this book and as yet have not been able to 'spot' every number that's listed.
 
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