"Steve Fitzgerald" ] wrote in message
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In message ,
Martin Underwood writes

I'd have thought that U and V were fairly easy to distinguish - unlike a
letter D, a letter O and a digit 0 which *can* very easily be confused in
the square font that's used on numberplates. OK, so you won't have an O
or 0
in the year position, but D and O are allowed interchangably in
three-letter
part of the numberplate. DDO, DOD, ODD, OOD and other permutations are
extremely hard to distinguish.

And U was used in the Isle Of Man for MAN xxxU, AMN xxxU etc.
registrations similar to British ones.

There was a time when you had the choice of pressed number plates with the
square font, or Bluemell's-type plates with riveted-on numbers, using a more
rounded font. My house number plates are the latter type, which in my view
were far superior to the old pressed type. My first new car was UDF 173 and
somewhere along the line we had VJG 129 W. I think that the risks of
confusion are slight, but it was really in the handwriting used to record
them that confusion could arise.
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