What does plate mean?

[nznikin]

As in I hear a lot of people describing their van as say 51 plate or 68 plate. Is this something only applicable to a certain country? Can't seem to find any info about this.

Cheers,

[andz327]

As in I hear a lot of people describing their van as say 51 plate or 68 plate. Is this something only applicable to a certain country? Can't seem to find any info about this.

Cheers,

Number is the year it was registered but can be depicted as a letter on older ,and the plate is just people referring to what year it says on the REGISTRATION PLATE / number PLATE

[nznikin]

As in I hear a lot of people describing their van as say 51 plate or 68 plate. Is this something only applicable to a certain country? Can't seem to find any info about this.

Cheers,

Number is the year it was registered but can be depicted as a letter on older ,and the plate is just people referring to what year it says on the REGISTRATION PLATE / number PLATE

Ah I see, this is the UK plate format. In NZ we do not follow this format.

[Punto443]

Used to be even harder with Y plates etc!

You’d have to try and remember the year that the letter corresponded too

[ned]

Aye uk plate format, new number plates come use twice a year so a 09 plate is early 2009 and a 59 plate is late 2009. N

[dumper]

The U.K. system is confusing I like the Southern Ireland setup for a vehicle registration in Dublin at the start of the year it will be 181 D 1234 then in June I think it changes to 182 the D represents the country it is registered in so if it was registered in Caven it’s a C

[bambi mk 1]

The U.K. system is confusing I like the Southern Ireland setup for a vehicle registration in Dublin at the start of the year it will be 181 D 1234 then in June I think it changes to 182 the D represents the country it is registered in so if it was registered in Caven it’s a C

The cute Cork hoors wont like that Cavan is CN

[Altransit]

Aye uk plate format, new number plates come use twice a year so a 09 plate is early 2009 and a 59 plate is late 2009. N

But it would be so much simpler if the "year" ran from 1st Jan - 31st December, as it did when registration suffix letters started in 1963

[ned]

Aye uk plate format, new number plates come use twice a year so a 09 plate is early 2009 and a 59 plate is late 2009. N

But it would be so much simpler if the "year" ran from 1st Jan - 31st December, as it did when registration suffix letters started in 1963

Yes it would, I still don't know why they changed to 2 a year, I think everyone should be issued with a plate that follows them from vehicle to vehicle.

Speaking of plates what's the legality of front plates as I keep seeing chavs with either no front plate orbit wedged in the windscreen. N

[Altransit]

Yes it would, I still don't know why they changed to 2 a year,

They moved it from January1st to August 1st in 1967 (XYZ 123E) only ran for 8 months) because the motor trade felt that new registrations would be easier to sell in the Summer, rather than at Christmas. The two a year thing is so that there are now two promotions a year, to try and sell more new vehicles.

[andz327]

As in I hear a lot of people describing their van as say 51 plate or 68 plate. Is this something only applicable to a certain country? Can't seem to find any info about this.

Cheers,

Number is the year it was registered but can be depicted as a letter on older ,and the plate is just people referring to what year it says on the REGISTRATION PLATE / number PLATE

Ah I see, this is the UK plate format. In NZ we do not follow this format.

Yeah but i take it yous still have a number PLATE of some kind so that'll be the PLATE but from your country

[andz327]

Used to be even harder with Y plates etc!

You’d have to try and remember the year that the letter corresponded too

Or if the letter was at the start or the end of reg number

[knobby1]

None of that naf stuff in Aus or NZ..ours are just random or you can have pretty much whatever you like....heaps of different colours too.

You can even get them to support your local football or rugby league teams too.!!

https://www.google.ca/search?q=NSW+rego ... 00&bih=802



Lord Knobrot