Choose any 1,2 or 3 letters you want on your number plate. Please be aware that if you are trying to misrepresent a number plate you may be liable for prosecution and the could void the number plate. The letters in number plates are normally chosen for initial's of to form a part of a name. You can also choose your sport, you family or children's initials, your job or profession, your vehicle make or type.
You can buy number plates that are similar in appearance to words or names, i.e K1 NGS, N1 CKY, COM 1C, FR03 ZEN, K1 NKY, NUT 5, 5 TAN SEL 1T , BUY 3R, AR51 NAL , OO02 SUE,
1 letter numbers, P 2 , E 6, 7 B, 55 V, 77 P , 555 W, 6789 R
2 letters numbers, JW 44, SS 535, 4567 AA, FF 5544
3 letter numbers JDW 444, 321 SDS, JIL 8877, THE 911S
The letters in number plates can also tell you where the vehicle/number was first issued, please see below.
In 1903 all the existing
Counties, County Boroughs (and Scottish Burghs of over 50,000 population)
were instructed to register all vehicles in their area, and were issued with
a one or two letter code, those in England and Wales in order of size (from
A for London to Y for Somerset, and AA for Hampshire to FP for
Rutland). Scotland had mainly S combinations, and Ireland (then including
the south) had Is and Zs; both were allocated alphabetically, first counties
then towns. As for each allocated code the digits reached 9999, new codes
were
allocated as required, likewise to new County Boroughs and Burghs as they
were created. In 1963 XA to XY were taken away from London, and subsequently
reallocated. Many of the surviving registrations from this time and earlier
have now been transferred onto newer vehicles as so-called & cherished
numbers. More of this information can be read here.
