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Colin Rosenstiel · February 23rd 04, 12:21 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

"Greg Hennessy" wrote in message
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In 7-8 characters, they could have easily encoded registration
information using Base36 and not have of the 4/7ths redundancy on each
and every plate.

What's your problem with the redundancy? Isn't some of it needed anyway
to enable the old numbering systems to coexist with the new one?

Redundancy is also inherent in the regional identification coding.

What amuses me is the new concept of "uncherished" numbers introduced by
the new system.

Have you noticed how high a proportion of the plates that have "X" or "Z"
(or both) in the three-letter group, presumably because the DVLA can't
sell most of them?

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Colin Rosenstiel