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Help decoding a british license plate

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bcliff

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I have obtained a pair of british license plates and am hoping that someone can decode them for me. They read "ERR 412C".
Black with silver letters. Can someone tell me when and where they were issued. Nothing of great importance just curious.
Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
Hello Bruce,

just an aside, they are called number plates in the U.K. and normally remain with the car for it's life. Our road fund licence (a bit of a misnomer, as very little of that tax funds our roads) is a paper disc that is visibly attached to the windscreen and is renewed every year. Fortunately for me, both of our cars are built before 1973 so we get the disc free. (Normally it is about ÂŁ150 p.a.)

Alec
 
Spot on. Nottingham, 1965. At that time the last letter (C)denoted the year of registration and the second and third (RR) were the area code. The first letter scrolled from A - Y as needed. Some letters were not used in British number plates, such as I, O, Q and Z. Having said that, if I put my anorack on, I and Z were used in Northern Ireland and Q was used as the suffix for vehicles where the date of manufacture was uncertain or for kit cars. Most Scottish area codes had an S in them.
 
On my 58 TR3A I have number plate PVG547J, I know this is the incorrect plate. I believe it is 1970 Norwich number plate. Here in the state's no one has any idea if it's right or wrong!
 
Right again! What you all really want is a registration plate with three letters and then three numbers. Those were the norm before 1963 when the suffix was introduced./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/england.gif
 
My Standard Vanguard (dearly departed to someone with more money and less sense) had it's original 1953 plates: OKF 3.

I was told by someone on this site that they would have come from Liverpool, which matched the dealer's decal in the back window.

Wish I had more money and less sense, I'd have kept her...
 
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