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February 1st 06, 03:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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Strange bus reg

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

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(John Rowland) wrote:

I saw a bus today with the registration "VLT 47". Its fleet number (or
whatever they call them) was "VLW 47". I wonder why they were able to
get a reg so close to the fleet number, but not the same? Or, for that
matter, why they tried?

It's a re-used Routemaster plate, originally applied to RM47 in 1959 or
thereabouts.

There are quite a lot about, helping to conceal the age of vehicles.

But in the case of many of the LT ones (VLT, WLT, CLT) they predated
year letter suffixes of prefixes. I think that these plates were a
sort of vanity plate, indicating ownership. This was in the days when
you couldn't normally buy personalised number plates, but LT got all
sorts of dispensations in this as in various other matters.

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