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Skriven 2009-03-18 16:39:45 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: License plates (was:
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Hello Dale,

On Tuesday March 17 2009 23:16, you wrote to me:

 DS> I don't know about other European countries,

Every country has its own rules. In some countries you can get "real" vanity
plates. In some others you can choose part of it. In Belgium you can choose the
letters IIRC.

 DS> but GB used to have a pretty good market in "vanity" plates.  If you
 DS> happened to have a car with a plate with three letters and a small
 DS> number, it would be worth a lot to sell that car to someone else.
 DS> Especially if the three letters happened to be their initials -- or a
 DS> good three letter word. They had to buy the car though, and then
 DS> transfer the plate to another car of they bought.

That does not work in The Netherlands. First because you can not transfer the
combination to another car, second because - wuth a very few exceptions - only
consonants are used. This is to avoid "funny" combinations, but it also
severely restricts interesting combinations.

 DS> I seem to recall some millionaire who had a collection -- something
 DS> like FOX1, FOX2, ...

The old Britsch plates consisted of three letters followed by three digits. So
these were probably "real" vanity numbers or it would have been FOX001, FOX002
...


Cheers, Michiel

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