There is no relationship between the registration number and the commission
number in terms of the letters and numbers, However, the registration number,
once assigned, stays with that car forevermore until the car is scrapped. At
that
point, the registration number can be transferred. Since the UK has no vanity
plate system, interesting registrations (owners initials, dates, car names,
etc.) are sold, often for high prices.
Also, all cars in use in the UK have to be registered. Even race cars used to
have to carry what amounted to license plates per the example you gave.
Mike Cook
EISANDIEGO@aol.com wrote:
> FOTers
>
> This is a relative basic question. However, I cannot seem to find an
> answer in my Triumph books.
>
> Robson uses the term "registration number" in his book on "The Works
> Triumphs" see his appendix. I am confused as to the relationship between the
> Robson "registration" number which is the number that appears on the front of
> many of the European Triumph racecars and the actual commission
> number/chassis number of the cars. Is there any relationship?
>
> For example, would the ADU8B Lemans Spitfire (ADU8B = Robson registration
> number) have a chassis or commission number that exactly matched those
> letters? If not, would those Robson registration numbers appear somewhere
> else? What was the source?
>
> Thanks in Advance, Cary
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