Here's one for you folks to work out ... we were on the M1 yesterday going south, towards Derby and saw the Police had stopped a car. The numberplate was clear in huge block capital letters and read as LONDON as we trogged past at 68 mph. What number/letter combination would make up LONDON then?
Just curious . . . . . but can't work it out myself.
LON100N with th space reduced between 1 and 0
Doesn't have to be a letter number combination. IIRC the regulations are that private plates simply require at least one numeral and no more than seven characters in total.
MrCheerful mumbled incoherently to the rest of uk.rec.cars.maintenance:
Or someone was trying to get away with a show-plate.
wrong !
the plate has to be issued by the DVLA
which generally means only the following patterns
nx xn xnn nnx xxnn - xxnnnn nnxx - nnnnxx nnnx - nnnxxx xnnn - xxxnnn xxx n- nnn x x n-nnn xxx xx nn xxx
in line with current and previous practice in standard plates
Do all the SINGH's and SANDHU's live in my town?
Well, aren't you the clever one?
*shudders* I remember driving home from Silverstone with Kermy's show plates! :-)
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