Martin Underwood wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 3 Jan 2005:


I know that initially the changover of letter occurred on 1 January, until
they realised that this caused a rush in car orders just as garages and
distributors were returning from their Christmas holidays. I believe the
change to August-to-July "years" was in 1966. So does that mean that:

A, B, C ran from Jan-Dec
D ran from Jan-Jul
E onwards ran from Aug-Jul

making D a short "year"?

I think it was E that was the short year, if my memory serves me well.

Anyone know why Northern Ireland never adopted any of the year-letter
formats. I'd have thought the army would have wanted a unified system so
that British soldiers' private cars were not quite so obviously different
from Northern Irish residents' cars, so as to lessen the chance of them
being IRA targets.

At the time, in the early 1960s, it had its own government at Stormont,
and was nowhere near running out of registrations, so no need to.

My husband (who comes from Northern Ireland) can still tell you where a
car with a NI registration comes from, and even I know a few of them: IW
is/was County L'derry, OI was Belfast (city), IJ was County Tyrone, I
think..... Anything with an I or a Z in it was either Northern Ireland
or the Republic.

Nowadays, of course, the Republic of Ireland has its own system, with a
number, a letter-code indicating the county of origin, and the year in
full.
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In article , Mrs Redboots
writes
My husband (who comes from Northern Ireland) can still tell you where a
car with a NI registration comes from, and even I know a few of them: IW
is/was County L'derry, OI was Belfast (city), IJ was County Tyrone, I
think..... Anything with an I or a Z in it was either Northern Ireland
or the Republic.

Wasn't it I for NI, Z for the Republic, S for Scotland, and W for Wales?
Though I don't recall who got hybrids like SI or IZ.

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"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
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Wasn't it I for NI, Z for the Republic, S for Scotland, and W for Wales?
Though I don't recall who got hybrids like SI or IZ.

All the Zx registrations were in the Republic. The Ix registrations are a
mixture, as are the xI and xZ combinations.

SI was Clackmannanshire. There was no IS, and IZ was County Mayo.

W itself was Sheffield, as were WA, WB, WE and WJ. The Welsh registrations
had no particular allocations. Glamorgan was L, then NY and TG.

Scotland had some extra registrations, like G, GA etc. for Glasgow, and AG
for Ayrshire, VA and VD for Lanarkshire, YJ for Dundee, RG for Aberdeen,
etc.

Go to http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/carreg.htm for the full 1966
list. If you find any misprints resulting from the scanning in, please let
me know. I've just corrected a few as a result of looking for these
examples.
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Terry Harper wrote:

Go to http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/carreg.htm for the full 1966
list. If you find any misprints resulting from the scanning in, please let
me know.

TC isn't quite right! (= Lancashire).

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John Ray

Clive D. W. Feather wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 3 Jan 2005:

In article , Mrs
Redboots writes
My husband (who comes from Northern Ireland) can still tell you where a
car with a NI registration comes from, and even I know a few of them: IW
is/was County L'derry, OI was Belfast (city), IJ was County Tyrone, I
think..... Anything with an I or a Z in it was either Northern Ireland
or the Republic.

Wasn't it I for NI, Z for the Republic, S for Scotland, and W for Wales?
Though I don't recall who got hybrids like SI or IZ.

Not entirely, as I know Co. Derry had/has at least one code with a Z in
it, but I can't remember what it was, and Husband is now back at work.
S was mostly in Scotland, I do know. SI was, I think, somewhere in the
Republic and IZ was - sheesh, I'm thinking Derry City, BICBW!
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Website updated 2 January 2005

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
...

Not entirely, as I know Co. Derry had/has at least one code with a Z in
it, but I can't remember what it was, and Husband is now back at work.
S was mostly in Scotland, I do know. SI was, I think, somewhere in the
Republic and IZ was - sheesh, I'm thinking Derry City, BICBW!

Annabel, Londonderry had/had IW, UI and YZ. IZ is County Mayo. No SI
allocated AFAIA.
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Terry Harper wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 4 Jan 2005:

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
...

Not entirely, as I know Co. Derry had/has at least one code with a Z in
it, but I can't remember what it was, and Husband is now back at work.
S was mostly in Scotland, I do know. SI was, I think, somewhere in the
Republic and IZ was - sheesh, I'm thinking Derry City, BICBW!

Annabel, Londonderry had/had IW, UI and YZ. IZ is County Mayo. No SI
allocated AFAIA.

That's right, it was YZ I was trying to think of. I think they've
finished the *IWs now and are going through the *YZs? UI is Derry City,
isn't it, rather than Co Londonderry? I remembered this morning that IL
is Co Fermanagh
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Website updated 2 January 2005