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Low numbers on old County reg plates

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  • 20-08-2014 10:16am
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    unfit2006
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    could anyone confirm whether the low numbers (under 250) after each county prefix were held back by the motortax office for

    A. Special order
    B. Imported vehicles.

    I am referring in particular to the early 1970s, and to plates such as LIR ... or KLI...

    thanks.


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    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    unfit2006 wrote: »
    Hi,

    could anyone confirm whether the low numbers (under 250) after each county prefix were held back by the motortax office for

    A. Special order
    B. Imported vehicles.

    I am referring in particular to the early 1970s, and to plates such as LIR ... or KLI...

    thanks.

    Not that I know of, not in Wexford anyway, both AMI onwards and AZR onwards started at 1. My fathers 1950 Speedtwin was re-registered in 1976 and the number allocated was over 600 so by that reasoning lower numbers weren't held back for imports they were just given the next number in the sequence.


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    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Wasn't the case in Sligo (EI) either.
    However, if you knew someone working in the car tax office, you could get a favourite number 'pencilled in' until you were ready.
    eg. If you wanted @EI 500 and the register was only at 250 when you collected your new car, then you stuck "FOR REG" on it until 499 had just been issued and ran in and got 500! Under the counter practice of course, but it went on!

    Same would have happened for lower numbers, particularly 1.


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    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Not usually, the practice of withholding numbers seems to be a relatively modern thing.
    Some batches were held back for bus companies and the like alright.


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