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Different EU sign on number plate?

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    #32
    Zube
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    Alun wrote: »
    It was more due to the fact that when these things were first introduced in Britain (in 1910) there was actually no such thing as the UK :)

    Oh yes there was, it was just a slightly larger UK, since it was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as Well As The Rest of Those Rebellious Taigs Down South.


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    Alun
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    Zube wrote: »
    Oh yes there was, it was just a slightly larger UK, since it was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as Well As The Rest of Those Rebellious Taigs Down South.
    I'd always thought the term "United Kingdom" only came into usage later on, i.e. after the formation of NI, but it seems it was used before that. Didn't know that.


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    L1011
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    Alun wrote: »
    I'd always thought the term "United Kingdom" only came into usage later on, i.e. after the formation of NI, but it seems it was used before that. Didn't know that.

    Term came in to use in 1707 with the Uniting of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.


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    Alun
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Term came in to use in 1707 with the Uniting of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
    Officially, yes with the original Act of Union, but I doubt if it was a term that was in "common usage", as it were, back in 1910 or even before that and so wouldn't have made much sense (especially to foreigners) on the back of a car travelling abroad.


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    #36
    L1011
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    Definately in common use through the world in the 1800s.


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    Mac 79
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    benifa wrote: »
    I've seen a VW Golf GTI going around Waterford with an Irish reg, but in German style (including the D in place of IRL), just wondered if it was legal or if the owner was just chancing it.
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    I've just seen the seen plate's today, a black golf in cork. it almost looked irish it was a 08 and had a red dot on it. i thought the german's had changed plate's i was checking online and saw this. if only i checked which side the driver was at, i was folling it for long enough


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