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David Jenkins - 20/8/07 at 10:16 AM

Saw this parked in Ipswich this morning... Rescued attachment 20-08-07_0944.jpg
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t.j. - 20/8/07 at 10:50 AM



Around here that sort of combinations are practical impossible. Some characters will never be used.

David Jenkins - 20/8/07 at 11:31 AM

They normally try and spot them before they're issued, but a few get through. Maybe P 002 MTV wasn't very obvious (until you shift a few letters slightly).

I remember one that was owned by someone 'famous' (Steve Parrish?) - PEN 15

DaveFJ - 20/8/07 at 11:55 AM

could probably make some money selling that to MTV so they could keep it off the road!

matt_claydon - 21/8/07 at 11:10 AM

quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Maybe P 002 MTV wasn't very obvious


It must actually be PO02 MTV (2002 plate) as in the old prefix style it would have just been P2 (leading zeroes on low numbers not used).

Given that they recently decided not to release any SN07 plates as it looked too much like 'snot' it seems bizzarre not to block 'PO0...' plates!

smart51 - 21/8/07 at 11:44 AM

PO plates are from Preston, SN from Scotland. Lancashire folk mustn't be as soft as the Scots when it comes to socalled-PC number plates.

SN07 does't look like SNOT to me, and even if it did, who cares?

matt_claydon - 21/8/07 at 11:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by smart51
SN07 does't look like SNOT to me, and even if it did, who cares?


My thoughts exactly!

iank - 21/8/07 at 12:00 PM

It was on the radio a little while back that they have pre-banned a lot of 57 plates due to the number of rude words that can be spelled if you use it as ST or SY (apparently).

The car in the original post is (strictly) illegal anyway as you aren't allowed to respace the letters/numbers - though the number of cars with technically illegal plates seems to stay fairly constant.

David Jenkins - 21/8/07 at 12:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
The car in the original post is (strictly) illegal anyway as you aren't allowed to respace the letters/numbers - though the number of cars with technically illegal plates seems to stay fairly constant.


Yes - but if you remember that the whole point of a numberplate is to be easily recognised and remembered in case of crisis - well, this would be hard to forget!

He's still wide open for a £60 fine, if some policeman was in the mood...

iank - 21/8/07 at 12:15 PM

I suspect they made the respacing rule to make it easier for computers to automatically extract the numbers from speed camera photos.

It may actually require a human look at the picture for 5 seconds which would slow down the cash machine.