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Offline stanmapstone

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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
« Reply #18 on: Friday 10 April 15 14:29 BST (UK) »
Car Registration and Number Plates 1903 to 2003 http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xez/

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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
« Reply #19 on: Friday 10 April 15 15:20 BST (UK) »
According to Noel Woodall's 'Car Numbers - Where From & When Issued' .......

IG was never used !

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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
« Reply #20 on: Friday 10 April 15 16:03 BST (UK) »
Just to add that the letter 'I'  was never issued as part of a registration number, see http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xez/

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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
« Reply #22 on: Friday 10 April 15 16:18 BST (UK) »
Quote from: stanmapstone on Friday 10 April 15 16:03 BST (UK)
Just to add that the letter 'I'  was never issued as part of a registration number, see http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xez/

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Never issued as a single letter area code according to your link - but it was used in double-letter codes in Northern Ireland.... eg:-

UZ Belfast
VZ Tyrone (Omagh)
WZ Belfast
XZ Armagh
YZ Derry (Coleraine)
JI Tyrone (Omagh)
OI Belfast
UI Londonderry
XI Belfast
IA Antrim (Ballymena)
IB Armagh
IJ Down (Downpatrick)
IL* Fermanagh
IW Derry (Coleraine)
QNI re-registered vehicles

However, 'IG' was always reserved  ...... but it may be that after the Almanac's publication it was issued as 3-letter codes, otherwise some of the refns in this thread woyuld be wrong ....

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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
« Reply #23 on: Friday 10 April 15 17:06 BST (UK) »
Just a thought - as IG is a non-starter, what about JG?  I'm sure it's not LG, due to the spacing on the numberplate, but JG might just be OK as far as spacing is concerned!  ::)  My only knowledge of old numberplates was my father's old Ford back in the 1940/50's - DND 656  ;D ;D

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« Reply #24 on: Friday 10 April 15 19:24 BST (UK) »
Many thanks for all of your continued input, I had a play around with the photograph,  :o

It's "BYG 508" ................ :-[

Frank.

Added:- This shows it was registered in Leeds, Yorkshire.

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« Reply #25 on: Friday 10 April 15 20:35 BST (UK) »
Well done!!  ;D
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
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Re: Do you know anything about cars and registration plates please?
« Reply #26 on: Friday 10 April 15 22:58 BST (UK) »
When I first met my husband he had a 1952 VW Beetle reg number THT 444 (same order as the BYG 508)
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