On 11/01/2014 13:18, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:35:46 on Sat, 11 Jan
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a
third will not.

Even taking into account the 5yr passports issued to minors, and those
replaced for various reasons (lost/stolen/damaged/full)?

Yes, but also those replaced abroad would probably not have a chip in
them either until much later so it probably evens out.

In my case the replacement was to get a machine readable passport as my
previous one issued in 2000 in Budapest due to damage was not.

Anyway, even if it's only a quarter or a fifth then that's still a
substantial number of passports and larger than "can't be many"