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Old February 4th 06, 05:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Strange bus reg
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:37 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

That's because they extended back to 1957 the vehicle ages to which A
registration suffixes applied. They were running short of remaining
series without year letters.

In fact London started on suffixes in 1964, with "B". Middlesex used
"A" suffixes from 1963, together with Staffordshire and certain others
which ran out of reversed registrations in that year.

Middlesex and Staffordshire were the first authorities to use reversed
registrations, with "H" and "E" respectively, in 1953.
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Terry Harper
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