Is a puzzlement
Apr. 9th, 2010 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerBack in the old days when I was a boy, cars in Britain had simple number plates. Three letters, three digits. No messing.
Then, some time around the late seventies I think, they brought in the single letter before or after the three digits to indicate the date of manufacture or possibly of the first licence. That scheme ran till recently when they made it two letters and two digits, for some reason.
So here's my question; how does an old-style, three-letter three digit number plate end up on the nearly new Lexus I saw today? A make, I believe, which didn't even exist back then.
Then, some time around the late seventies I think, they brought in the single letter before or after the three digits to indicate the date of manufacture or possibly of the first licence. That scheme ran till recently when they made it two letters and two digits, for some reason.
So here's my question; how does an old-style, three-letter three digit number plate end up on the nearly new Lexus I saw today? A make, I believe, which didn't even exist back then.
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Date: 2010-04-10 10:24 am (UTC)I gather the one before that was owned by a film company.