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From: Rob Graham on 28 Jul 2010 09:34
On 28/07/2010 11:56, Adrian wrote:
> Rob Graham<rttgraham(a)btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like
> they were saying:
>
>> In October new cars will have new 'year numbers'. Given that the next in
>> the sequence would be 60 (I think) but my wife, who's obsessed with car
>> numbers, says it can't be but can't say what it should be, can anyone
>> say whether I'm right or wrong and tell me the correct number?
>
> You are correct.
>
> Summer period, Mar-Sep - two-digit-year.
> Winter period, Oct-Feb - two-digit-(start)-year + 50.
>
> The current scheme can continue until xx00xxx expires in February 2051
> without any modification (unless a fourth letter becomes required due to
> volume).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom#Age_identifiers


Thanks Adrian. First time I've ever known more than my wife.

Rob
From: Gordon H on 28 Jul 2010 10:50
In message <8bang8FbskU3(a)mid.individual.net>, Adrian
<toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> writes
>A.Clews(a)DENTURESsussex.ac.uk gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
>saying:
>
>>> The current scheme can continue until xx00xxx expires in February 2051
>>> without any modification (unless a fourth letter becomes required due
>>> to volume).
>
>> I suspect most of us reading here will be expired by then anyway :-)
>
><shrug> I'll still be in my 70s. Not exactly outside of the realms of
>possibility.

I'll be 111, but I'm not sure I'll still be driving.
--
Gordon H
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From: John on 28 Jul 2010 13:49
On 28 Jul 2010 10:56:03 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Rob Graham <rttgraham(a)btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like
>they were saying:
>
>> In October new cars will have new 'year numbers'. Given that the next in
>> the sequence would be 60 (I think) but my wife, who's obsessed with car
>> numbers, says it can't be but can't say what it should be, can anyone
>> say whether I'm right or wrong and tell me the correct number?
>
>You are correct.
>
>Summer period, Mar-Sep - two-digit-year.
>Winter period, Oct-Feb - two-digit-(start)-year + 50.

I'm a bit thick when it comes to number plates. I don't understand or
get what happens in the second half of the year.

E.g It has been going 02, 52, 03, 53, 04, 54, 05, 55, 06, 56, 07, 57,
08, 58, 09, 59, 10, 60? It's weird. What has the 50 and 60 got to do
with the years 2000-09 and 2010-on? If its meant to signifiy half a
year I just dont get it, I think they should just do something like
they have in the US with the year printed below or above in full, with
the state - here it would probably be England, Scotland or Wales etc.
Or you could also break it down by counties e.g. Yorkshire,
Lancashire, Oxfordshire etc. Then just have a name with a few numbers
as the plate.


From: Duncan Wood on 28 Jul 2010 15:38
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:49:09 +0100, John <bomb(a)ymix.com> wrote:

> On 28 Jul 2010 10:56:03 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rob Graham <rttgraham(a)btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
>> like
>> they were saying:
>>
>>> In October new cars will have new 'year numbers'. Given that the next
>>> in
>>> the sequence would be 60 (I think) but my wife, who's obsessed with car
>>> numbers, says it can't be but can't say what it should be, can anyone
>>> say whether I'm right or wrong and tell me the correct number?
>>
>> You are correct.
>>
>> Summer period, Mar-Sep - two-digit-year.
>> Winter period, Oct-Feb - two-digit-(start)-year + 50.
>
> I'm a bit thick when it comes to number plates. I don't understand or
> get what happens in the second half of the year.
>
> E.g It has been going 02, 52, 03, 53, 04, 54, 05, 55, 06, 56, 07, 57,
> 08, 58, 09, 59, 10, 60? It's weird. What has the 50 and 60 got to do
> with the years 2000-09 and 2010-on? If its meant to signifiy half a
> year I just dont get it,

Add 50 in July

> I think they should just do something like
> they have in the US with the year printed below or above in full, with
> the state - here it would probably be England, Scotland or Wales etc.
> Or you could also break it down by counties e.g. Yorkshire,
> Lancashire, Oxfordshire etc.

That's essentially what the area code does

> Then just have a name with a few numbers
> as the plate.
>
From: Adrian on 28 Jul 2010 16:50
"Duncan Wood" <nntpnews(a)dmx512.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

>> E.g It has been going 02, 52, 03, 53, 04, 54, 05, 55, 06, 56, 07, 57,
>> 08, 58, 09, 59, 10, 60? It's weird. What has the 50 and 60 got to do
>> with the years 2000-09 and 2010-on? If its meant to signifiy half a
>> year I just dont get it,

> Add 50 in July

September, even.

But, yes, it's that simple. Just a way of differentiating the two half-
years from each other, but retaining a link to the actual year.

It doesn't "signify" anything more than that.

>> I think they should just do something like they have in the US with the
>> year printed below or above in full, with the state - here it would
>> probably be England, Scotland or Wales etc. Or you could also break it
>> down by counties e.g. Yorkshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire etc.

> That's essentially what the area code does

No, not really.

In the US, the plates are issued and managed completely by the state. If
you live in <say> Texas, your plate is issued by the Texas DMV. If you
move to California, you hand your Texas plates back and get a set of
Californian ones.

In the UK, they're all managed by Swansea, and they stay on the car for
it's life. So the fact that the car might've been sold by a dealer in
Yorkshire means it gets a Yx99xxx plate, even if the car's owned by
somebody in Hertfordshire or wherever.
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