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From: David Lodge <wargs@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:11:45 -0700
To: Gene Wescott <gene.wescott@gi.alaska.edu>
Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] British number plates
Gene,
The last two letters in the registration, as you were rightly informed,
denote the County of registration - in your case MM, Middlesex, these days
called Greater London; my own example being BD, Northamptonshire; (DBD 432)
prefix D which was 1946. The first letter gives a VERY approximate guide to
the year of registration. For example the museum-piece Rolls Royce Silver
Ghost being AA 1 which is Hampshire, with no prefix letter.
Hope this serves to confuse things Brit even more!
Regards, David Lodge. ( a not-too-confused Brit!)
> Last evening I had my 47 TC (3387) out on a run with the local
> Antique Auto Club of America group here in Fairbanks Alaska. We tour around
> to various places, park and talk to tourists. At one campground I met a
> gent
> visiting from England who looked at my English number plates: KMM 552
> and said he didn't know what county they represented. He said that MM was
> the county,
> which he couldn't remember, and that K was the month
> of registration, November. This doesn't seem right as my
> records show that it was first registered on 10 Sept., 1947 and given that
> number. Maybe that was the dealer, as the stamps in the book show
> the first named owner as George Bramston LTD, 9 July, 1948
> in Walthamston, Essex. Could it have been sitting at the dealer's place
> for 10 months without selling? That seems unlikely.
> Can anyone explain the significance of the KMM to a month and county?
>
> Gene Wescott
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