Old Car Registration

[toby webb]

I understand that this car's registration may be of Monmouthshire. Can anyone confirm that and say where records of ownership may be held? Many thanks, Toby.

[KGarrad]

See: http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/ax.htm

Monmouthshire, January 1904 to March 1927.

As it's a low number, it's going to be 1904, I'm sure


The same website has some hints re searching for a previous owner:
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/history.htm

[ScouseBoy]

I understand that this car's registration may be of Monmouthshire. Can anyone confirm that and say where records of ownership may be held? Many thanks, Toby.

  Do you mean the current owner?
Or do you mean the first owner?

[*Sandra*]

Vehicle would have been registered at the local office in Cardiff Monmouthshire.
Codes were issued by County Councils to 1 October 1974, DVLA Vehicle Registration Offices (now called Local Offices) from 1 October 1974.

http://www.cvpg.co.uk/REG.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_dependencies_and_overseas_territories

Perhaps form V888 -  request by an individual for information about a vehicle might help.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/v888-request-by-an-individual-for-information-about-a-vehicle

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545606/v888-request-by-an-individual-for-information-about-a-vehicle.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/request-information-from-dvla

Sandra

[mazi]

Surely Cardiff is in glamorganshire, AX was allocated to Monmouthshire county council, not many local authorities have kept their records, if they exist they are likely to be at Gwent archives.

Unless the car still survives DVLA will have no record of it,  if it survives my experience is that DVLA apply the due reason rules stringently.

Mike

[ScouseBoy]

It is quite possible that the number is now being used on a different vehicle.
Or it may be in a museum.

[*Sandra*]

http://www.cvpg.co.uk/REG.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/request-information-from-dvla

Sandra

Cardiff Monmouthshire as listed on the link given. AX - Cardiff (Monmouthshire to 1974)

The boundary between Monmouthshire and Glamorgan was the river Rhymney. The small town of Cardiff was in Glamorgan, but as it grew in the 19th century, it spread across the river into Monmouthshire. 

Sandra

[mazi]

Just to clear things up, under the 1903 act Cardiff was allocated BO, KG and UH, Monmouthshire  was allocated AX and WO, within Monmouthshire the county borough of Newport was allocated DW, no other places in Monmouthshire had an allocation.

Local government reform in 1974 changed things.

Mike

[ScouseBoy]

Many County Councils  and County Borough Councils issued Number 1 reg plates to their own Mayoral limosines.