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Old February 4th 06, 08:21 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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Default Strange bus reg
In article ,
(Terry Harper) wrote:

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.

True but A suffixes have since been applied for re-registration of all
vehicles from 1957 to 1963. In London application of B suffixes only
started part way through 1964.

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Colin Rosenstiel
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