On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:20:32 -0000, "Dave Liney" wrote:


Which is exactly what happened with the yearly letter change and then the
6
monthly nonsense which resulted from the august sales glut.

You seem to have missed the point that the twice yearly changeover has
nothing to do with the new system but was already in place before it was
introduced.

Which was an attempt to smooth over august sales peak caused by the suffix
changed being moved there from January.

Are you suggesting that said movement of the yearly identifying mark and
the resulting distortion on sales had nothing to do with the motor industry
?


There was no change in the time of identifier change with the
introduction of the new system.

Proof if any was needed of the current dogs breakfast. If one is going to
introduce a completely new system and encode a yearly identifying mark,
changing it every 6 months is just silly.

Pardon my french, but F*ck the car industry. Other countries manage just
fine without changing a year identifier every 6 months.

If you actually read what I had posted you would have realised that I said
that the car industry does not want the changeover at 12 months or 6 months,

That would be the car industry who persuaded the govt to move the suffix
change from Jan to Aug in the Mid 60s, and then whinged even more to get a
twice yearly change due to the distorting effects that change had on the
market.

Unless you are suggesting the govts of the day had some other reasons for
taking such arbitrary action ?

they would rather have a continuous series.

The registration system doesn't exist for the benefit of the car industry.




greg

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