Hi, Carl
>Came across a GB Plate at a garage sale yesterday. JOI 585. Can anyone
>provide an insight as to the where and when etc that might go with the
>plate.
Don't have my book of UK index marks to hand but it looks like this one
comes from Northern Ireland.
If I remember correctly any combo of the second two letters which features
and I - not a 1 - is reserved
for that part of the UK. As far as the issue date is concerned, this could
be a lot more difficult to establish.
You'd need to have a lister in Northern Ireland who could sift the memory
banks for roughly when the
letter J came up in the series.
The other possibility is that someone might have taken an earlier
registration and respaced the letter in which the original
format was JO 1585. If this was the case, the registration would relate to
the county of Oxford and would probably be sometime in the late '20's early
'30's
John Macartney
Still carefully polishing the thinning cellulose . . .
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