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

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In a message dated 4/5/2008 7:31:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mmarr at notwires.com writes:

>  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? 


==AM==
Mike, sounds reasonable to me. But if "LH" was a Greater London series, I'd  
suspect that they might have run out of three-letter/three-number combinations 
 some time in the 1950s and reversed them; in other words, later (but still  
pre-1963) plates from that office more likely would have read 635 TLH. But  
chances are one of our UK list members will know for sure?  

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