Vintage Cars (4)

I am surprised you can put the same number plate on different cars . Nice set, like the Landrovers.

Anyway, DAF 33:

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Harm vb wrote: They are personal plates. The NETHERLANDS is one of the rare countries where plates are connected to a specific car.

That does not explain different cars having the same license plate. I feel a license plate should uniquely identify the car. Whether the license plate is linked to the car or the owner is irrelevant imho. Normal British registration plates are linked to the car with an area code, then a age identifier and finally random letters. Like in The Netherlands, by default, a UK registration plate will accompany a vehicle throughout the vehicle's lifetime. The exception are personalised plates.

With personalised plates, how do you know which car speeded if they all have the same plates?

I'm really sorry to have caused a bit of confusion here. Pieter is quite right, all of the photos in my post were taken at different times and L4 BCY has only even been assigned to one vehicle at a time. (If I had actually owned all of those at the same time it would probably mean I would have a Leica M11).

Personalised number plates here in the UK are very big business and some are sold for ridiculous amounts, very often worth more than the vehicle they are assigned to! My wife bought my plate many years ago as a Christmas present and it signifies (to us at least) "Lesley for Brian Colin Young". Every time I have changed my car, or motorbike, I have paid to have the number transferred to the new car and the original registration number is reassigned.

There are a lot of regulations but the most significant one, as our number plates signify year of original registration is that you cannot put a private number plate on a vehicle that would make it look newer than it is, but it is okay to assign an old plate to a new car.

A couple of links to illustrate:
UK Government website page explaining the rules here
10 most expensive number plates sold in the UK here

Thanks for taking an interest Addy and to Harm and Pieter for explaining.

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