[TR] ( forgot # ) Decoding Brit issue number ( licence ) plate?

[Michael Marr]

> Forgot to list the #
>
> TLH 635
> **************

According to: http://www.londonbusroutes.net/miscellaneous/regs.htm#council 
this was a car number issued by the Greater London Council, prior to 1963. 
The first letter is a "counter" (i.e. A was first, then B etc.), so it was 
fairly late in the series of LH numbers.  Maybe late 50s, early 60s?  The 
embossed  lettering you describeed was quite typical for plates back then, 
and the standard plate color was white (or silver) lettering on a black 
background.  Later plates (from 1963, maybe, when the numbering system 
changed?) were black on yellow refelective paint for the rear plate and 
black on white refelectice paint for the front plate.  For a while in the 
sixties you had a choice - you could use the traditional, non-reflective 
plates or the new reflective plates, but the bblack plates were eliminated 
some time in the 70s if I remember correctly.

This was probably more than you wanted to know...

Mike