Vehicle registration number plates in the UK are rectangular or square in shape, with the exact permitted dimensions of the plate and its lettering set down in law. You can find out where your personalised registration number plate was originally issued here. It's important to remember that the date on a car's number plate, may not accurately describe the date the car itself was produced.
This is because it only tells us when the vehicle was registered and given a plate. This means that a car could be produced in one area and registered in another a few years later so you can't always rely on the number plate date. Some manufacturers stored their cars for a few years before registering them, which caused complications as they appeared new, but were in fact not.
The letter or pair of letters indicated the local authority in whose area the vehicle was registered, for example A - London, B - Lancashire, C - West Riding of Yorkshire. When a licensing authority reached , it was allocated another two letter mark, but there was no pattern to these subsequent allocations as they were allocated on a first come first served basis.
The current system rearranged and changed the formatting of the previous leading to the new format of XX11 XXX. Two letters, two numbers and another three letters. From this format, you can work out where a car was initially registered, the year it was registered and more specifically the 6 month period it was registered. Each number plate has 1, 2 or 3 letters and one or more numbers.
Number plates are displayed showing available plates on the UK market. For transfer times, VAT status and any other information you require, please call us or visit our main number plate website. The region where the car was first registered, as well as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency DVLA office for the specific area, are displayed on all number plates in the UK in use today.
The codes currently used to identify the region that a registration comes from are different to those of the first plates issued. While the first letter of the regional identifier gives you the broader area where a car was first registered, the second letter allows you to zero in with more accuracy and pinpoint a more precise location.
Using London as an example again, if a number plate regional identifier shows an L and an A, it means the car was registered in Wimbledon. If it displays the letters L and Y, the car was first registered in Sidcup. Number plates are designed to let officials and motorists identify a vehicle clearly and quickly when they need to. Issued by the DVLA, the current format for UK plates consists of two letters followed by two numbers and then a sequence of three letters. The first two letters on a current UK plate are an origin identifier and tell you precisely where a vehicle was first registered, including the region plus the issuing DVLA office.
Quite simply, these are issued sequentially and are designed to differentiate the vehicle from others registered in the same year in the same place.
The two numbers on a current UK number plate are an age identifier. Plates are issued twice a year from March 1st to August 31st and from September 1st to February 28th. Do you want to know when a particular registration mark was released? Simply enter it into the box below and we will tell you when, where or if it was first registered. New Reg will coordinate the entire transfer of your personalised registration with DVLA when requested by you. Some manufacturers stored their cars for a few years before registering them, which caused complications as they appeared new, but were in fact not.
The letter or pair of letters indicated the local authority in whose area the vehicle was registered, for example A - London, B - Lancashire, C - West Riding of Yorkshire. When a licensing authority reached , it was allocated another two letter mark, but there was no pattern to these subsequent allocations as they were allocated on a first come first served basis.
The current system rearranged and changed the formatting of the previous leading to the new format of XX11 XXX. Two letters, two numbers and another three letters. From this format, you can work out where a car was initially registered, the year it was registered and more specifically the 6 month period it was registered.
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