The two numbers are called the ‘age identifier’, which tells you in which six-month period the car was first registered. This system is unnecessarily confusing, but you eventually get your head around it.

Up until 28 September 2021 the distinguishing sign was GB. On 30 June 2021, the United Nations published a notification stating that the United Kingdom has given three months' notification that it intended to change its distinguishing sign from GB to UK. [3] plates are available in our custom design and the special edition Yiannimize gel for that extra special finish. These same product choices are also available for our 4D plates with both our standard and Yiannimize special available. Our role as a number plate maker is to give you a product that will ensure you are compliant on the roads. As well as being passionate about the art of custom number plates, we are all huge motoring enthusiasts so the last thing that we would ever want to do is provide you with a product that did not meet legal needs. plates use acrylic characters for a more pronounced profile but they do still comply with all of the requirements set out in the BS AU 145e 2021 British Standard. Our legal 4D plates also satisfy the requirements outlined in the March 2022 motoring update which mentions that number plates must: Increased durability is a law. Announced in March 2022, plates now have a legal need to be tougher and extra-durable to withstand destructive materials that can be found on the road. Encouraging road users to ensure their plates are abrasion free, our 3D and 4D plates are a brilliant example of how you can invest in a custom number plate to ensure your car is compliant.General rules for number plates are that they should be made up of the following: • Two letters that represent the region the car was registered in Both plates are then coated in a high-quality, shiny resin and placed in a warm oven to remove any bubbles or marks. Once cooled and left to harden, we finish the edging and remove any remaining imperfections. As a number plate maker, we have a responsibility to ensure that all products are of road-standard quality, so we also carry out a meticulous testing phase for every item. When you buy new number plates, or if you want to change your EU plates, they can display one of several legal UK national flags, including: 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. But these aren’t the only letters on a plate - so what about the last three letters? Quite simply, these are issued sequentially and are designed to differentiate the vehicle from others registered in the same year in the same place.

Lindsay Brooke. Triumph: A Century of Passion and Power. MotorBooks International. pp.41–. ISBN 978-1-61059-227-7. Lord Mayor arrives at St. John's School". St. John's School. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006 . Retrieved 5 May 2010. Some three-letter combinations were not authorised for licensing use as they were deemed offensive. These included ARS, BUM, GOD, JEW, SEX, and SOD, sod being a mild British profanity derived from " sodomite." [53] [54] DUW was issued in London for several months in 1934 before it was realised it was the Welsh for God, and withdrawn. [42]The current number plate system in Great Britain has been around since September 2001. Northern Ireland has its own system that is quite different, but today we’re concentrating on the GB system (England, Scotland, Wales).

Just like that, your new custom plate is ready to install! With speedy lead times, you would be forgiven for thinking this is a simple process. A product that offers the ultimate in quality and design. Every aspect from our durable acrylic base plates to the high-shine resin coating has been expertly sourced so that our plates are better than others that are available. b) any other relevant standard or specification recognised for use in an EEA State and which, when in use, offers a performance equivalent to that offered by a plate complying with the British Standard specification, and which, in either case, is marked with the number (or such other information as is necessary to permit identification) of that standard or specification. [15]I, Q, and Z were not used as serial letters, as the use of I and Z continued to be restricted to Ireland and Q was reserved for temporary imports, while the single-letter codes were left out of this scheme as a serial letter would have created a duplicate of an existing two-letter code. (The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland later adopted this scheme in their own ways, and the latter still uses it.) The specification of plates incorporating the UK code was created by the British Number Plate Manufacturers Association, and is seen as the default design by the Department for Transport: [4] A zero has been issued by several issuing authorities for the official car of the council head, in cases where plate number "1" had already been issued by the time the councils decided to give priority to its first citizen. [50] Example include the Lord Mayor of London ( LM0 [50] [51]) and the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh ( S0), of Glasgow ( G0) and of Aberdeen ( RG0). [50] 1932 to 1963 [ edit ] Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (30 March 2000). "Clearer rules for clearer number plates". DETR press notice 252 of 2000. Archived from the original on 28 August 2001 . Retrieved 16 November 2009. An example of this is the area code for London, which was previously the letter A since it is England’s capital city. Today, the letter L is used for London under a system sometimes referred to as the “official local mnemonic”.

d1 d2YA and YO were originally reserved for select issue, however are now issued as standard due to increasing demand. [27]

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The design has similarities with the FE-Schrift number-plate font which was introduced in Germany in 1994 and which has been mandatory there since 2000. However, the UK design remains more conventional in its character shapes.