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The number plate bug I wish to convey my gratitude to the devoted team at Regtransfers.co.uk in recognition of my appreciation for the efficient and prompt service rendered to me for the purchase of D10 RDH. I am delighted with the plate, as I was with my previous purchases: P777 BUG (featured in The World of Personal Number Plates Volume 1 Issue 2) and K6 LUV Lord Brett Reginald McLean of Hastings
Who says I am too small or not famous enough to have my own personal number plate?
My name is Dishen Comaren sure the team at Regtransfers and I am only 26 months old. will help you to find your I am the first born to my perfect number plate. parents. You don't have to worry about When I was 3 weeks old my dad the cost if you are under 16 - no bought me this number plate bank account, no credit card, On display D15 HEN as a gift. no driving licence but the I have owned a few cherished privilege to request what we number plates but I did not think I I wish to thank the Regtransfers would ever own the one displaying want. Your parents are here to team who sold this number my initials, BS. pocket out the expenses. plate to my dad. In particular, I Thanks to your company and staff, Ha, ha! thank Mr Ian who provided an this was done (within my budget) within a few weeks, with all the excellent service to my dad. Dishen Comaren paperwork sent to me, and the plate (2 years, 2 months) is now displayed on my car. As I am not old enough to have my dream sports car, my mum Thanks once again. is using the number plate in the Brian Smith by email meantime (as you can see, what an old lady's car it is!).
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The number plate The R6 Crew bug Please find attached pictures of my rides an R6) and I were known as Letters Yamaha R6 with the registration ‘The R6 Crew’ to the other guys we I wish to convey my gratitude to the number R6 CRU, I thought they go riding with, was the devoted team at Regtransfers.co.uk R6 CRU emails might be of interest for your in recognition of my appreciation for obvious choice. magazine and possibly drum up the efficient and prompt service The number often attracts positive some interest in the registration as rendered to me for the purchase of comments at bike meets and I think Write to: you currently have it for sale on my The Editor D10 RDH. it sets my bike out from the crowd. behalf. & Regtransfers.co.uk I am delighted with the plate, as I I wanted a cherished number for my Andy Earl 139 High Street South was with my previous purchases: Dunstable bike and as my mate (who also Porchester P777 BUG (featured in The World Bedfordshire of Personal Number Plates Volume LU6 3SS 1 Issue 2) and K6 LUV or email Lord Brett Reginald McLean [email protected] of Hastings
Who says I am too small or not famous enough to have my own Bill ’N Jen personal number plate? House Keyes I was going through some old magazines, when I noticed The My name is Dishen Comaren sure the team at Regtransfers World of Personal Number Plates, and I am only 26 months old. will help you to find your Volume 3, Issue 1 and read the I am the first born to my perfect number plate. article Namesake (H6 YES). parents. My name is Keyes, so my ears You don't have to worry about pricked up at this article, thinking When I was 3 weeks old my dad the cost if you are under 16 - no that a named plate looked more attractive than just initials. bought me this number plate bank account, no credit card, On display We are well known in Perth as just We were offered L1 BNJ originally D15 HEN as a gift. no driving licence but the I have owned a few cherished After looking around, I found ‘Bill ’n Jen. Our conversion to but might have had to arrange a number plates but I did not think I K22 YES. I found a couple of single personal number plates was purely second mortgage! But as it was to privilege to request what we by chance. In fact, we are both on go on our Motorhome, (for I wish to thank the Regtransfers would ever own the one displaying numbers but they were a bit L2 BNJ want. Your parents are here to record as saying that we would ‘us 2’) seemed more appropriate. team who sold this number my initials, BS. expensive, so I thought of my house never have them. pocket out the expenses. number which is 22. Now we have L2 BNJ, L3 BNJ plate to my dad. In particular, I Thanks to your company and staff, We have been ‘caravanetting’ for and L4 BNJ - prompting one friend Ha, ha! thank Mr Ian who provided an this was done (within my budget) My Subaru Legacy Estate has now around 40 years and have visited to remark that we must have “mair within a few weeks, with all the got the registration number more than a dozen countries in siller (money) than sense” excellent service to my dad. Dishen Comaren and this was all down to Europe with our vans, and Canada paperwork sent to me, and the plate K22 YES and New Zealand with rented ones. Bill and Jen Fairweather, Perth (2 years, 2 months) is now displayed on my car. reading your magazine. As I am not old enough to have my dream sports car, my mum Thanks once again. G Keyes by email Out on a Lymm is using the number plate in the Brian Smith by email I thought you might like to see my new plate. It’s quite meantime (as you can see, a head-turner in our local village! what an old lady's car it is!). John Hooper, Lymm, Cheshire Guys, if you want to have your personal number plate just dial 01582 477333 and I am pretty What’s the Story? Do you have a story about number plates? If so, please send an email to: [email protected]
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A word from the RNC The commercialThe Registrationbenefits of distinctive numberNumbers plates Club, are now well-established.is the only traditional Are Cherished Number UK based club catering With the UK’sfor largest enthusiasts selection of of personalised vehicle Enthusiasts Stereotypes? qualityregistration registrations numbers .- . and. joining now us by Rod Lomax, RNC Publicity Officer celebratingcosts very little 25 andyears’ the tradingbenefits -could Regtransfersbe substantial. Wehas were become originally the first founded in 1977 and currently choice of a wide range of It's very easy to place people into appearance of the plate and have produce a quarterly newsletter, RNC stereotype slots these days, even spent very little, whilst others are true businessesNews, which eager is the originalto find a cost- effectiveindependent marketing club publication solution. and is though it may not be particularly enthusiasts - searching out that available free to subscribing politically correct! Bringing cars into elusive combination to complete their Wemembers. are, naturally, delighted to the equation is, however, a different collection and creating an unusual but relateThe club their is runexperiences by Honorary in this matter and generally works out satisfying hobby in the process. magazine.Secretary, Steve In an Waldenberg earlier issue, from we something along the lines of “He's a the RNC office in Leeds. Rod Lomax It doesn't matter whether you drive an featured and we sales representative so must be from BuryPimlico in Lancashire Plumbers is the club old banger or a limousine. As long as driving a Ford Mondeo or a Vauxhall arePublicity now Officerpleased and to Johnbring Harrison, the story the vehicle is taxed and has a current upwho to has date an with expert the knowledge brand new of the Vectra” and “She's a school run mum whole system of vehicle registration so will be driving a people carrier or articlein this country,opposite is >club Archivist & Advisor. large 4x4.” Also springing to mind are A visit to our website at the youngsters who have just passed www.regtransfers.co.ukFor information about the RNC,is certain their driving tests and just have to please contact: to provide you with have a Vauxhall Corsa. Anyone Steve Waldenberg involved in an accident, of course, is inspirationHonorary Organising and ideas Secretary for the perfect registration usually asked “was it a BMW?” by RNC Office friends in the pub. toPO take Box care MT12 of YOURLeeds LS17business. 7UD Tel : 0113 226 7497 WithFax: 0113stories 226 and 1110 MOT certificate, you can purchase video clips you and then assign a cherished number Email: organisation@ canregistrationnumbersclub.org.uk see how plate to it. You will have a lot of fun businesses just like yours have with its ownership, not least of which Rod Lomax gainedPublicity valuable Officer prestige from could result from becoming a member their distinctive numbers plates. of the RNC, enjoying its quarterly 5 Bank Top Baldingstone newsletter and attend the annual Remember,Bury, Lancs our friendly sales staff dinner and rally. areBL9 on 6RY hand to help you until 11pm everyTel: 0161 evening 764 8180 - including In the 1980s, city slickers usually weekends.Fax: 0161 764 3800 wore red braces and drove a Porsche MASTER2.qxdEmail: 09/05/2003publicity@ 16:55 Page 49 911 or 944Why almost not get exclusively YOUR painted A Better Move 110 ADU registrationnumbersclub.org.uk in Guards Red with black interior. The company noticed with John Harrison 'loadsamoney' brigade had arrived All Star Limousine Hire A115 TAR corporate number plates The 2007 RNC rally Archivist & Advisor and with it a near explosion in ? 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The evening before, there will be a Tel: 020 8508 8851 Fortunately,marketing today, opportunities it no longer takes a (evenings/weekends only) city slickers bonus to buy a cherished members’Gowing and dinner Pursey at a nearbyPUR 53Y venue - • look great in press releases, Email: [email protected] plate. full details of which will be published Posh Plates newspaper articles, TV, etc. inFantastic the next Fireworksissue. 5 NOV he Pimlico Plumbers credit a part of The Registration Numbers Club also their ongoing success to their vast Registration Numbers Club rallies demand,T collectionso there of personalised really number will be turns• raise the public notion, awareness that you have of your to be Floors to Go 2 FTG plates. With a growing collection of over allow members from all around the somethingthirty, it is hard for to miss everyone. plates such as As usual wealthycompany or flashy to even want to be BOG 1, DRA 1N, B1 DET, LAV 1 and W4 TER. associated with cherished numbers, countryIndependent to meet Safety up and Advisors participate S4 inFTY trophies will be awarded in each class a light-hearted competition where and thereThis attention will to detailbe together the with usual the raffle to on• helpthe head to create - we havecorporate members identity from outstanding service they offer has theirKMK registrations Electricians are K13 placed KMK in raise fundsculminated infor a series the of prestigious club. awards Full details all walks of life. Some have inherited recognising their status as one of the best in • are great fun items different classes. There will be eleven will be theposted industry. Three on times votedthe London’s club web site - excellent and valuable plates, some Top Plumbers, finalists in the H&V ofLadybird these in Photography2007 due to popular P777 BUG www.rnc.ccNational Domestic- in Installer due of The course.Year just• set like your the companyindividuality apart and from the award and H&V Marketing Initiative of The Year Winners, to name just a few. receive the very best service and the hi rest Morrow Brothers Limited 1 KEG Charlie Mullins, Managing Director said, of standards, is essential. “For 25 years now, we have been fulfilling Distinctive number plates provide the that pledge by employing the highest calibre finishing touch. Charlie said, “I am de • are tax deductible of staff in every position. In return for the with the way Registration Transfers h New Dimension Exhibitions WH05 NDE high standard of service we offer, we find the sale and transfer of our registrati that our customers not only use us again always with superb efficiency, from t • provide proven investment and again themselves, but recommend us to initial search to the completion of al Progressive Print Services R55 PPS their friends and family.” relevant documentation. These plate potential added a touch of recognition and fu Pimlico Plumbers has carved a niche for vans and our customers are always itself by concentrating its efforts in an area commenting on them. We have gain much fantastic publicity because of The company’s recent expansion into new of just 3½ square miles of Central London, Here are just a few organisations Rack Storage Systems DEX 10N plates. 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The commercial benefits of distinctive number plates are now well-established. Flushed with Success With the UK’s largest selection of As long-standing, frequently During a recent visit, Pimlico's quality registrations - and now returning customers of MD, Charlie Mullins, credited celebrating 25 years’ trading - Regtransfers.co.uk, Charlie Mullins Regtransfers.co.uk with a and his staff have developed a significant contribution to his Regtransfers has become the first great eye for the best, most company's success. Perhaps choice of a wide range of appropriate registrations. modesty should prevent us businesses eager to find a cost- Consequently, their large fleet of quoting him, but what Charlie effective marketing solution. vans is equipped with eye- said is such a clear indication catching registrations such as of the promotional value of We are, naturally, delighted to B1 DET, LAV 1, F1 USH, good private plates on relate their experiences in this W4 TER, DRA 1N, S1 NKS and business vehicles that we magazine. In an earlier issue, we even BOG 1! An impressive simply have to share it. collection, but that isn't the half of featured Pimlico Plumbers and we “We are London's most it: Pimlico own literally dozens successful plumbing company, are now pleased to bring the story more similarly themed and a lot of that I put down to up to date with the brand new registrations of the very highest the recognition we have got quality. article opposite > from our vehicles with the A visit to our website at Personalised numbers are so number plates on. much a part of the company www.regtransfers.co.uk is certain “We've been dealing with identity that employees regard it Regtransfers.co.uk now for to provide you with as a badge of honour to drive the nearly 25 years, they've inspiration and ideas for vans bearing the best supplied a hell of a lot of registrations. Those engineers the perfect registration number plates for us, and you who perform best in their work get to take care of One may be forgiven for thinking can see the amount of publicity the most striking plates, thus it is YOUR business. that plumbing is an industry within that we get. Celebrity common for customers to request which the opportunities to achieve customers that use us, in the a specific engineer to do their With stories and fame might be limited. One would, paper, everybody seems to work... quoting his van number video clips you however, be demonstrably mention the vans, everybody plate by way of identification! can see how mistaken. London plumbing mentions the number plates. specialists Pimlico Plumbers have Pimlico's fantastic collection has businesses just like yours have “It's our biggest form of achieved a high, positive profile also aided their wider publicity gained valuable prestige from advertisement, and hopefully that would be the envy of many a campaigns too. The plates we can continue to work with their distinctive numbers plates. business. Imaginative and generate such interest that they Regtransfers.co.uk for years to proactive marketing have made have been featured many times on Remember, our friendly sales staff come. They have offered us a the company's name familiar far television and radio, in great service which has are on hand to help you until 11pm beyond the limited circle of newspapers - and, of course in the certainly got us, the company, every evening - including customers and business Regtransfers.co.uk magazine. weekends. partners that have had to the position we are in today direct contact with them. From the Regtransfers.co.uk point as the most known plumbing MASTER2.qxd 09/05/2003 16:55 Page 49 of view, Pimlico Plumbers are the company in the world.” Why not get YOUR A Better Move 110 ADU One of the most striking perfect satisfied customer. They company noticed with publicity tools exploited All Star Limousine Hire A115 TAR have the vision to see the corporate number plates by Pimlico Plumbers is business and marketing benefits of ? the outstanding top quality number plates, and in And So to Bed CO51 BED Distinctive number plates: ers’ collection of plumbing- promoting themselves so Plumbers’ related custom number effectively they also promote our • provide excellent promotional, Cry Records 2 CRY plates that adorn their industry. Best of all, they keep Photography: Stan Thompson marketing opportunities vans. coming back! Gowing and Pursey PUR 53Y Plates • look great in press releases, Posh Plates newspaper articles, TV, etc. Fantastic Fireworks 5 NOV he Pimlico Plumbers credit a part of their ongoing success to their vast Tcollection of personalised number • raise public awareness of your Floors to Go 2 FTG plates. With a growing collection of over thirty, it is hard to miss plates such as company BOG 1, DRA 1N, B1 DET, LAV 1 and Independent Safety Advisors S4 FTY W4 TER. This attention to detail together with the • help to create corporate identity outstanding service they offer has culminated in a series of prestigious awards KMK Electricians K13 KMK recognising their status as one of the best in • are great fun items the industry. Three times voted London’s Top Plumbers, finalists in the H&V Ladybird Photography P777 BUG National Domestic Installer of The Year • set your company apart from the award and H&V Marketing Initiative of The Year Winners, to name just a few. receive the very best service and the hihighest aging Director said, rest Charlie Mullins, Managing Director said, of standards, is essential. Morrow Brothers Limited 1 KEG we have been fulfilling “For 25 years now, we have been fulfilling Distinctive number plates provide the oying the highest calibre that pledge by employing the highest calibre finishing touch. Charlie said, “I am dedelighted sition. In return for the • are tax deductible of staff in every position. In return for the with the way Registration Transfers hhandle rvice we offer, we find New Dimension Exhibitions WH05 NDE high standard of service we offer, we find the sale and transfer of our registratiregistrations, not only use us again that our customers not only use us again always with superb efficiency, from tthe es, but recommend us to and again themselves, but recommend us to initial search to the completion of alall • provide proven investment mily.” their friends and family.” relevant documentation. These plateplates have Progressive Print Services R55 PPS added a touch of recognition and fufun to our potential has carved a niche for Pimlico Plumbers has carved a niche for vans and our customers are always ating its efforts in an area itself by concentrating its efforts in an area commenting on them. We have gaingained so miles of Central London, of just 3½ square miles of Central London, much fantastic publicity because of the Rack Storage Systems DEX 10N The company’s recent expansion into new ains some of the most Here are just a few organisations but one that contains some of the most plates. There is no doubt that peoppeople not 28,000 sq. ft. premises together with its ties and historic buildings expensive properties and historic buildings only spot us out and about, but ththey never livery of Volkswagen vans almost doubling is means that presenting who have used personal number in the capital. 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Now, that's Magic!
aving been a Paul Daniels only illusion this house creates. We the plate had indeed been issued - Hfan from a very young age, seem to be at the back of the to a Scottish Councillor, who'd had it I'm excited that I'm finally house, but it's not entirely clear on a Mini! I went ahead and bought going to meet him. I pull into his where the front is. In fact it doesn't the plate with the Ferrari. The winding drive and can't believe his look like a conventional house at all previous owner told me that he was MAG 1C plate is right there in front with its flat roofs. It's more like a big so glad I was buying the car and of me. This is the stuff of number magic box from one of Paul's tricks. plate because he was pig sick of plate legend. I mentally tick it off my He goes on to tell us gleefully that people asking if it belonged to Paul list of 'Things to do before I die'. the canoe is named ‘The lovely Daniels.” Debbie McGee’. The lady herself In the twenty years since, MAG 1C I park next to the Bentley Mulsanne waves to us from inside the house has become a trademark for the alongside a vast green lawn with as we settle ourselves at the table the River Thames beyond. A man on the patio. continued on page 16 . . . appears from a glass-fronted house and strolls towards me. He is so Paul doesn't claim to have a great recognisable it's almost like visiting interest in private number plates, More an old friend. but when he was a civil servant in local government, some 44 years Magical Paul Daniels is Mister Magic. He is ago, he had the foresight to work the most accomplished TV magician out the number plate combination Motor of our time. This along with his MAG 1C. “It was quite handy unique comedy style, ensured he working there,” he said, “I asked if it Marks was a hit with audiences the world was for sale and who owned it. I over. The Paul Daniels Magic Show even offered £1,000 for it. The ELF I5H arrived on our TV screens in 1979. answer was a definite no. They said £7,995 His tricks baffled and astounded us they were not permitted to issue a G3 NEE well into the 1990's. Truly a plate out of sequence.” Several £2,995 household name, he later hosted years went by and when Paul had MAG I64L Regtransfers.co.uk the quiz shows Odd One Out, Every just started to make a name for £9,995 Second Counts and Wipeout. himself as a magician, he was MYS 7IC offered the plate on a Mini. He £14,995 We stroll along the patio up to the turned it down believing it couldn't seam of the river where Paul shows TI2 OLL possibly be genuine because he £7,995 me his pride and joy - a motorised knew that the MAG series of plates canoe he spends many pleasant CAS 7IE had never been issued. £14,995 hours in. He points out the part of the house that is built over the It wasn't until 1985 that a friend told JUP I73R £8,995 water. “It's deceptive isn't it?” he Paul that MAG 1C was for sale says, noticing my look of surprise. again, this time on a Ferrari. “When VI3 NUS “The house looks smaller when you I answered the advertisement in the £4,995 first arrive doesn't it?” That's not the Times, it was then that I discovered RAB IIT
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Paul Daniels brand. “It has certainly thought of that before. Only one of my name, PAU 1D. I have often been good value for money in terms my sons is a magician, so I'm not smiled at some of the combinations of publicity,” says Paul, “although I sure it would really be fair.” Paul around but in truth I am really not do consider selling it from time to has never considered having bothered whether I have one or time. I have been offered fortunes another number although plates do not.” for it because it doesn't just apply to seem to have caught his family's It is people's reactions to seeing this magicians, MAG 1C has a very imagination with his wife Debbie MAG 1C number that concerns Paul wide appeal.” having 8 DEB on her car and Martin sometimes, “It can be damn with an MDZ number on his. Wouldn't he pass it on to his dangerous. I think that when I drive “I suppose if I was to choose magician son Martin? “We've never the Bentley I am more aware of another plate it would have to be other drivers and what they are up to than anyone else on the road. Normal family drivers will suddenly spot the plate and swerve out into the fast lane so that they can turn sideways to take pictures with their phones and cameras. Mad!”
At this point the lovely Debbie McGee, looking ageless as ever, comes to ask us if we would like a drink. Moments later she returns with a tray of tea and coffee before returning to her office.
Paul first became interested in magic when he was just 11 years old whilst on holiday with friends. He read a book called How to Entertain at Parties and was particularly taken with the magic card tricks it explained. “From that moment, I can safely say that all I ever wanted to do in life was to become a professional magician.” Soon, the young Paul was entertaining at the homes of friends and family, then at parties and youth clubs. He left school at 16 and went straight into the Civil Service as a junior clerk and later as an internal auditor. He continued the magic shows in his spare time when he also began to develop his own tricks and techniques.
Paul sells some rare back issues of this magazine to Regtransfers’ At 18, he was called for National Marketing Manager, Len Stout. (Shouldn’t this have been the other way round! - Ed) Service and was sent to Hong Kong
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Paul’s Potted Personal Past
Paul Daniels is one of the most accomplished magicians was a tremendous in the world, and certainly one achievement for Paul, and he of the most exciting. Add to that was the first magician from a unique comedy style and you outside the USA to receive the have a complete entertainer. award. His fame and achievements In 1985 his exciting TV special, are not confined to the UK. The Paul Daniel's Easter Magic USA, Canada, New Zealand, Show was awarded the Germany, Spain, and Japan coveted Golden Rose of have all recognised him as a Montreaux Award. This was world class entertainer. His followed by the Variety Club of numerous achievements Great Britain staging a special include starring in his own show business luncheon in hugely successful West End Paul's honour at the theatre show, headlining in Las Dorchester Hotel in London, Vegas and Broadway, and televised by the BBC. performing more unique magic His TV career has not been on TV than any other magician limited to performing magic. As in history. a presenter, he has hosted From the moment he burst some of the most enjoyable onto the ITV network his magic game shows on TV. Odd One shows topped the ratings. A Out, Every Second Counts and recent book on TV facts calls the highly rated Wipe Out have him the most successful TV all had great success in the magician of the 20th century. battle for viewers. There was His creative genius has also the wonderful Wizbit enabled him to produce children's series, which consistently stunning shows, featured a world of magic and unrivalled in spectacle and wonder for the younger viewer. covering the whole world of Always in demand as a guest entertainment magic, from on talk-shows, Paul’s vibrant small, ‘close-up’ effects, to personality and love for magic enormous outside broadcast make for a fascinating viewing, illusions. and his endless supply of In 1983 Paul was presented stories and anecdotes from a involved with film makers and with the prestigious Magician of lifetime in show-business, has appeared in a few short the Year award by the make for riveting viewing. films just for the fun of it. Hollywood Academy of Magical Paul has acted in the West End Recently he was in a local Arts before a star-studded in Moliere’s The School for production of The Marriage of audience in Los Angeles. It Wives. He also enjoys getting Figaro.
on active duty where he spent part magic act in working men's clubs. I running gag. I'd go back to same of his time entertaining the British had a gruelling schedule of up to man every now and again and American servicemen. three 45-minute slots every night.” throughout the show and say, 'you'll It was while in one of these clubs in like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.' I After demobilisation, Paul decided Bradford, that Paul's most famous was known all over the north of to leave his secure Civil Service catchphrase 'You'll like it, not a lot, England for saying this long before I post to manage his parents grocery but you'll like it,' came about. “A became famous.” business. “It was so successful that man called out to me 'I don't like I was soon able to buy my own Paul developed his showman's your suit,' so I replied, 'Oh, well I shop. But it meant that I was patter according to comments his like yours, not a lot, but I like it.' It working harder than ever. In the audiences made. “I'd stay in the became the hook for what we call a evenings I was entertaining with my toilets after the shows to listen to
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"It has certainly been good value for money in terms of publicity"
what people didn't like about my comedy and worked on developing the launching pad Paul had been performance. I even got my my own style. But trying to combine waiting for. girlfriends at the time to do the two successful jobs almost killed So how does he feel about TV same. I treated my performances me. I had to make a choice. Luckily very much as a business.” the decision was made for me when shows where the magicians reveal I landed a summer season at their secrets? Paul quickly learnt from the criticism Newquay. I seized my chance and he overheard, adjusting the way he “They don't bother me. It only moved into showbusiness presented his show. “I learnt not annoys the amateurs, not the professionally.” only by listening but by observation. professional magician. You see I I lived by the quote 'if we could see In 1970 Paul was given another big know 15 different ways to cut a ourselves as others see us'. I did break. He made his television debut woman in half - these programs just that, I looked at myself to see on the talent show Opportunity only ever show one. I bought a trick what I could use to my advantage - Knocks. Although Paul came when I was young and could not get I wasn't tall or suave like Bruce second, television executive Johnny any entertainment out of it, even Forsyth for instance, he was king at Hamp spotted him and offered him though I obviously knew how it the time, the top entertainer. I knew a slot on Granada's popular TV worked. Then I saw a man perform I would look all wrong if I tried to be show The Wheeltappers and the same trick and he got a fantastic like him. I read lots and lots of Shunters Club. This proved to be reaction from the audience. At that
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Debbie has her own agency which deals not only with models, but also with casting agents who are seeking actors moment I realised that the secret is been having babies as a child” he of all ages. never in the trick, it's always in the says, flattering me by thinking I performer.” don't look old enough. I laugh for www.debbiemcgee.co.uk the umpteenth time - I've really These days Paul is interested in enjoyed being entertained for the developing businesses, from past couple of hours - meeting the internet marketing to The Paul man himself has not shattered any Daniels Magic Shop. For up and of my childhood illusions. coming magicians he has written a complete masterclass course in magic called How to Make Money by Magic. In 2003 he went on an extensive How to Make Money by Magic tour of Australia, USA and the UK. “Unlike traditional magic Interview by Ruby Speechley lectures, I focused on how to use Photography by Len Stout www.pauldaniels.co.uk your existing knowledge of magic to earn money. The emphasis was on © Regtransfers.co.uk 2006 www.pauldanielsmagicshop.com the business aspect of show- business. We've made the highlights of the tour available on DVD.” Paul has a special of publicity" 'Magician's area' on his website full of vital tips for budding and performing magicians.
This year Paul has worked in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but he and the lovely Debbie McGee do still make the occasional television appearances, particularly on reality TV shows such as Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and The Farm.
As far as number plates goes, he says that if he does decide to look for another plate he will certainly have a flick through the Regtransfers magazine, especially now he's appeared in it! Before I go, I ask him if he would mind signing the ace of spades playing card for my thirteen year old son. “Goodness me, you must have
Paul and writer Ruby Speechley. ‘Canoedling’ by the canoe!
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Sharman Shmels Sharman Schiffer has just published the story of her a Rat! life with a notorious womaniser and pimp. Here, she tells the story behind the book: Shmel the Rat. Each of the 16 chapters in this 232- page, easy-read roller-coaster, represents a year of living with this rat, starting with how we first met on a blind date . I am now divorced and want to be the ambassador for all those ladies out there who are in a similar situation but just cannot break away. However difficult it might be, there is a light at the end of that very dark tunnel. I know, I am the living proof. I have given many after lunch and dinner speeches all over the country, to all-ladies audiences on the subject of relationships and the response has been amazing. I have been featured in both the local and national press and on the radio with Vanessa Feltz and Anna Raeburn. I commissioned a professional cartoonist and, between us, we created a caricature that depicts Shmel the Rat. The potential for the book and this character is endless. We have made prototype dolls, mugs, note pads, divorce cards, computer rat mats etc. In fact anything that needs a logo, the Rat will assist. in the purchase of a number plate something very negative. I will Many people have told me that this that would benefit from my book. certainly recommend you to anyone true life story would make a brilliant He came up with the number that needs a personalised number film or TV play. We shall see. plate. MY04 RAT. The 04 being the year It is very important for any business that I started writing the book. You have all heard of Roland Rat. to maximise its advertising and this Your correspondence is an example Well, make way for Shmel the Rat. is why I contacted of how a company should operate. I . I was Regtransfers.co.uk am so very pleased with the service welcomed by one of your very and over the moon with my plate. knowledgeable sales negotiators So much so, that I have now given who, with his expertise, guided me Regtransfers my private number A20 SHA to sell for me. MY04 RAT causes such a stir every time I hit the road and this is exactly what I wanted. And I didn’t stop with the plate: I have had magnetic Further details can be found on Sharma’s website at plaques made, which grace the www.shmeltherat.com bonnet and two front doors of my car. My family and friends were just so Magnetic signs by Sign-a-rama, Brighton taken aback by this whole concept, that they were amazed to see email: [email protected] Telephone Jeff on: 01273 871521 something very positive come out of
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Jason Dawe writes The third a series of specially commissioned articles for The World of Personal Number Plates from the respected newspaper columnist and TV presenter Jason’s Heavy Metal Heroes For the same price as an ‘ordinary’ new car you could be driving the world’s automotive aristocracy thanks to the ravages of depreciation. With most cars losing around half their value in the first three years of life there has never been a better time to pick up a tasty motor. So what are you waiting for? Check out my list of ‘heavy metal heroes’, the best luxury cars on a budget, get yourself a private plate and you’ll soon have the neighbours thinking you’ve won the lottery. You’ll never want to buy a new car again! Up to £25,000 A top spec Vauxhall Signum diesel will set you back around £25,000 leather upholstery so you will never Up to £20,000 but for the same money you could feel hard done by. be behind the wheel of one of Fords used to be cheap but a new Germany’s best, a used Mercedes The diesel S320 is my pick of the Mondeo 2.2TDCi can tip the scales Benz S-Class. All S-Class models bunch with 204bhp on tap it has a at nearly twenty grand and in three look pretty much the same to the useful turn of speed whilst you’ll still years time you’ll be lucky to get untrained eye so to the innocent top 30mpg in mixed motoring. £8,000. So why not spend that money a little more creatively with a onlooker you could be driving a The one to buy - Mercedes Benz £70,000 5.0 litre V8 or a £45,000 S320CDi 2002 ‘52’ with 40,000 BMW 7-Series? Pretty it ain’t but straight six. Either way it’s the miles. Cost new £47,000 there’s no denying that a second bonnet on the badge that cuts the Value today £23,000 - £25,000 hand BMW 7-Series is a big impact mustard, the three pointed star is car. Pull up in the Mondeo and you the universal symbol for success look like a middle manager, rock up and you’ll be welcomed at all the in the Beemer and you look like the best locations. chairman. Go for one with the optional I’m not a big fan of the horrendously satellite navigation, add some fiddly to use i-Drive system that decent wheels and you’ll not only BMW fit to the 7-Series but in every look a million dollars you’ll feel it other respect its an impressive as well. No worries on spec the piece of kit and all the models have more recent models all come with a decent turn of speed. electric seats, climate control and Mercedes Benz S320CDi >>>
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>>> If you fancy the big Beemer then Up to £10,000 similar X300 model with new V8 you are best off larging it, get one Ten grand on a new car doesn’t get engines and up-rated interiors. with big alloys and window tints for you very much, a Corsa diesel to be Classic Jag styling gives these cars the full effect. The 6 cylinder models precise, and while I’m not saying a low, sleek, elegant look that is the may be smooth but nothing beats epitome of good taste. But don’t be the grunt of the 4.5 litre V8. With fooled into thinking that these cars 333bhp on tap the 745i will give are musty, dusty old man’s cars, the sports car owners a few shocks and 3.2 V8 produces 240bhp and the will pull like a train up to its 4.0 litre 290bhp. There’s even a artificially limited 155mph top speed, supercharged version with 370bhp just be prepared for frequent petrol to play with, that’s more power than station visits. a new Porsche 911! – BMW 745i 2002 The one to buy Since the introduction of the new XJ ‘02’ with 70,000 miles. Audi A8 S8 model in March 2003 values on Cost new £56,300 these previous generation cars have Value today £18,000 - £20,000 that second hand luxury cars are for been gently drifting down to their everyone when they get down to current level and with virtually no this price they have to be worth a more money to lose your closer look. depreciation is going to be The Lexus LS was Japan’s first real negligible. On the down side you foray into the world of luxury saloon have to put fuel in, about a gallon cars and overnight won many loyal every 20 miles, and you’ll have to customers. What the Lexus lacked replace tyres and brakes fairly was a distinctive face but that’s frequently. unlikely to worry many owners as BMW 745i But take it from me, there’s no they waft down the motorway in a better feeling in the world than virtually silent cabin. Up to £15,000 slipping behind the wheel of a V8 A brand new Skoda Octavia will set Being Japanese the Lexus has Jaguar, prodding the throttle and you back £15,000 but I’m not reliability that shames its German rapidly disappearing, towards the interested in that when you can competitors and the rather neutral horizon, safe in the knowledge that have a 360bhp Audi S8 for the styling has meant that through its the car cost you less than the same money. The S8 is the high evolution the early cars haven’t cheapest new car in the UK. performance version of the all ready aged too badly. Get one with the The one to buy - Jaguar XJ8 4.0 quick A8 4.2 quattro. Sat on meaty fantastic Lexus satellite navigation Sovereign LWB 1998 ‘R’ with 18’’ rims the S8 offers fantastic build system and you will swear you are 150,000 miles. Cost new £46,000 quality, a space age all aluminium sat in a brand new car; the system Value today £4,000 - £5,000 body shell and the benefits of all is still yet to be bettered by modern wheel drive technology. competitors. The 4.0 litre V8 is no Rumour has it that Audi made a slouch either with 260 willing horse loss on every A8 they ever built as power under the bonnet but the the cost of production far overly light power steering is outstripped the prices they could unlikely to inspire you to push on at charge for them. Either way their pace. obsession with building the ultimate The one to buy - Lexus LS 1999 luxury saloon car is good news for ‘T’ with 70,000 miles. used car buyers as second hand Cost new £49,299 Jaguar XJ8 4.0 Sovereign LWB examples often turn up looking as Value today £9,000 - £10,000 good as new. Favourite colours are black or silver, both of which suit the car, but be fussy about the cars service history and make sure the car has not been involved in an accident – the aluminium body work is difficult and Jason Dawe writes a weekly used car expensive to repair and should only Lexus LS column in the Sunday Times. be carried out by a specialist dealer, He worked with Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear and now presents the Used something that can be expensive. Up to £5,000 Car Roadshow on Sky’s Men and Early 3.7 V8’s may look like good You’ll struggle to get any new car Motors channel. value but the lack of Quattro four for five grand, the KIA Picanto super wheel drive removes one of the cars www.usedcarroadshow.co.uk mini is about the closest at £5,300, best features. As a former car salesman, Jason has but heavy metal heroes still abound 20 years’ experience in the motor The one to buy - Audi A8 S8 at this price. Pick of the crop is the industry and is acknowledged as the quattro 2001 ‘51’ with 60,000 miles. Jaguar XJ saloon. Introduced in country’s leading used car expert. You Cost new £54,110 1997 the XJ8 model was a huge can contact Jason via his website: Value today £13,000 - £15,000 leap forward from the visually www.jasondawe.com.
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Now you can get The Grimleys; Midsomer Murders; Doc Martin and The Legend of the Regtransfers . . Cloutie (film with Martin Clunes); Death by Pets & Coronation Street. Tia's story of how she saved my life On the has just been published in a book called Dogs are Smarter than Jack (95 amazing true stories about move dogs), published by Smarter than Jack, a subsidiary of Avocado Press. TIA 96 Every time I look at my TIA 96 REGTRANSFERS.CO.UK number plate, I quietly do so with pride, as memories gently tug at the heart-strings. I think what a special gift it was, and privilige, to have A dog’s owned such a wonderful and talented dog. In 2005, I presented The Tia Bowl life! to the Rottweiler Club, in loving Tia was Rottweiler Personality of memory of Tia, to be awarded the Year (The Kirt Memorial Cup) annually for Rottweiler Personality 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2004 and was of the Year. It replaces the Kirt shortlisted for the Golden Bonio Memorial Cup, which Tia won four Awards, 2003. She was Daily Mail times previously and I now have for Dog of the Year, Gold Medallist keeps. award, 2004. Finally, most sincerely, I give a huge Because of Tia's talent and love for “thank you” to Regtransfers.co.uk performing, she was available for for dealing with us not only in such T.V. and film work. I was her trainer a warm and friendly manner, and so and handler. very promptly, during the transaction If you have a and the transfer of my number plate Some of Tia's T.V. appearances WAP-enabled TIA 96, but also for giving me this include: London Today/Tonight; phone or a Rolf's Amazing World of Animals; special opportunity to share my WEB-enabled Days Like These; Central News; beloved Tia one more time. PDA, you can log Mad About Pets; Lock Stock; Black Amanda Hawes on to our website Books; Beast; Los, Dos, Bros; by email Anytime – Anywhere You never know when you might want to look up a personal number plate as a present for a friend or family member. So remember, whether you’re out shopping, in a wine bar, or just down the pub, we will be there with suggestions for that special gift. You have the technology – we have the solution
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Dave Packs ‘em In new home in Peterhead (officers’ vehicles. Hyphens became perks, old boy!), I was eagerly mandatory on any plate after spotting dozens of RS and RG September 2004. It is interesting registrations, which were issued to that, white or silver characters on a the city. Driving north to Peterhead, black plate are still legal on the the county indices SA and AV Island, but only only vehicles became more numerous. manufactured before 1 September At this time a decision was made to 1990. learn all the indices printed in the AA book, so I have now committed the 600 original index marks to memory. In 1974, new legislation substituted 180 local authority motor taxation offices with 81 local vehicle Cabbie Dave Packer’s licensing offices, resulting in the registration, P154 CAB, re-allocation of some index marks. simply means P for Packer, The majority remained, but others 154 is his taxi registration were transferred to other locations. number and CAB is For example, AA (Hampshire) went self-explanatory. to Salisbury and AG (Ayrshire) to Hull. Observing the thousands of index NMN 16 marks available in the Operating as a Llandudno licensed Regtransfers.co.uk magazine, I taxi proprietor, my travels As all Manx plates have a wondered how many owners of throughout the UK are made more combination of MN or MAN, these marks know the area where interesting by matching registration personal plates do not exist, they were originally issued, a plates with the area that I am although Island resident comedian subject that has interested me for travelling through. Even without Norman Wisdom did possess over forty years. viewing destination or county signs, NMN 16 on his vehicle. I am confident I could pinpoint my Dave Packer Living in The Isle of Man, I noticed, position to within 50 miles. at an early age, that all licence Llandudno plates incorporated the letters MN, In my opinion, the most attractive with or without a prefix. But it was plate design is that issued by the years later that my interest in index self-governing Isle of Man. Some marks really started. years ago a completely new design was issued for Manx registered Moving around the UK with my vehicles, with similar dimensions to parents, to various RAF bases, we those of the UK-style plates. The arrived in Huntingdon in the mid- main differences are, the smaller sixties, where I resumed my train- characters (separated by mandatory spotting hobby. My colleagues also hyphens between the letters and had publications about car numbers numbers), a pillar box red panel and explained that EW was the situated on the extreme left, local index for Huntingdonshire. I displaying the IOM national symbol, realised that the majority of vehicles the trieske (The 3 Legs of Man) and in the area had this mark. beneath it, the letters GBM. A After learning the neighbouring choice of place name e.g. Isle of indices of Cambridgeshire, Man, Ellan Vannin or Mannin, can Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, be inserted above the characters to my interest was born. display national identity. We then moved to North-East New legislation, in April 2004, Scotland and, whilst waiting outside allowed larger characters and the Aberdeen railway station for the recently introduced UK plate design RAF staff car to convey us to our was authorised for Manx registered
Dave pictured here with one of his collection of over 60 model buses >
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LETTERS EXTRA Email YOUR story and photos to: [email protected]
I saw a number plate, which had my looking for the personalised Mad about plates? name on it - W45 EEM but it was sold. number plates. Do you have a story about Then I found W44 EEM which was the I like the plate because it’s my own number plates? closest to my personalised name. and no one else has my plate. It’s also I bought it I had put it on my mum’s car a good investment. Many thanks. If so, please send an email to: because I was only 16 at the time. Waseem Aslam [email protected] My friends think it’s good so I told them Fife, Scotland about Regtransfers and now they are all How much is a Cos worth?
It was nice talking to Regtranfers.co.uk’s The last number plate I bought for then discovered the number KA02 DEE Marketing Manager, Len Stout, at the myself was 300 ROY which is currently from your web site, which she now has recent Registration Numbers Rally at on my Mitsubishi Shogun Warrior. on the car and V50 DEE is being held Woburn Abbey. As discussed I have on retention. noted some details regarding the My partner, Dee, bought herself a new numbers plates that my partner and I Ford KA in 2002, I then purchased the Roy Cuthbert own. number plate V50 DEE for her. While Enfield Middlesex surfing the number plate web sites, we My love for Ford Cars started in the 1960’s with a Lotus Cortina and a 1600E, then into the 1970’s with an Escort 1300E and in the 1980’s I had an XR3, RS Turbo and Cosworth cars. Since the early 1990’s I have had a RS 500 Sierra Cosworth which was one of the last 100 ever built by Aston Martin - Tickford- Bedworth. Also in the early 1990’s I acquired the number plate 500 COS,which has been registered on my Cosworth ever since that time. The photo was taken at the recent Registration Numbers Rally at which I won first prize in the section. I have also been a member of the Ford RS Owners Club for the last 18 years and have been to many of their shows with my cars. The very first number plate that I bought was from a dealer in the 1980’s, the number was RC 1999. This is now currently being held on retention.
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Keeping it in the family
hris Carey, from Eastleigh in “Then, out of the blue, I had a text The couple also have 6040 WJ Hampshire,wanted to find a from Regtransfers.co.uk to say which hides the age of their car plate that related to his name they had the plate and to give them transporter and is also a little Cand which he could pass down a call. I phoned straight away and investment for the future. through the family. spoke to a friendly and polite chap “Regtransfers have provided me “I was looking for a sort of hierloom, called Chris Dixon. We quickly with a first-class service and I would I suppose. After weeks of thought I agreed a price and I payed a recommend them to anyone who is had settled for CAR 3Y. It looked deposit. Two weeks later I had a call considering purchasing a cherished the part and nothing had to be from Chris to say the plate was in number in the near future. Keep up moved or changed to recognise my my name. I payed the balance over the good work!” name.” the phone and the certificate was posted out to me the next day. I After some investigation he went straight to the VRO and put discovered that DVLA had not the plate on my car. I have since released the plate yet. So, he sold CPC 766 now that I have my registered with several cherished ultimate plate. number companies and awaited a response. Three years went by and Chris has also purchased N3 SXX he had given up on the idea and (Nes XX) for my fiancée Vanessa. I bought one with his initials gave that to her on Valentine’s day. CPC 766. She says it’s a day now that she will never forget and is reminded of it every time she drives her car.” Five-year-old son Joshua C Carey has JC04 REY for when he’s old enough to drive. “We have found What’s the Story? that the plates go up in value and Do you have a story about are a good investment, so we are number plates? seeking plates for all our kids. They If so, please send an email to: give the car that personal touch and [email protected] can also bring back fond memories.”
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ernon Wood recalls half a century of private vehicle 30 cars - 50 years ownership,V with many marques (and sadly, rare plates) that no longer exist . . . Unless you know otherwise? Like many drivers in their seventies, I have owned a number of motor cars which, had they survived, would have commanded premium prices as veterans of a bygone age, treasured for uniqueness, rarity or even for sheer cussed eccentricity. My own tally of ownerships since passing my test in 1954 is 34, and as you might expect, 1931 Morris 8 hp 2 seat tourer, reg. WP 2804 ‘Whoopee’, the earlier ones are the most whose curvaceous posterior may well have inspired Renault's "shake that ass" Megane ? April 1954. interesting. From the viewpoint of a carplate emerged from the engine's valvegear at needed as we chugged around the pre- number-nutter, even more intriguing are speeds over 20 mph. motorway roads of West Yorkshire, the registrations that went with the cars, I sold it 2 years later for £10, the rebuild hood down, myself frantically hand- and I can only shudder to think of the having cost £25. My only memory of the signalling at every junction, and rarely small fortune that has slipped through registration was the letters VNW, which putting in a burst of speed up to 45 my fingers in the past half century as I today, would have been an ideal mph…only providing it was downhill with sold both car and plate for a few paltry initialised plate for myself and wife. a following wind. quid. C'est la vie. Other fond memories of 'Whoopee' Hindsight is a wonderful thing they say, ‘Whoopee‘ was bought subsequent to include the over-ambitious drive from but for my money foresight is a more my disastrous failure at my first driving Leeds to Edinburgh for my annual RAF valuable attribute, which, (had I been test, so that I could get in much more Reserve training course, undertaken the blessed with it in relation to 'old sorely needed practice before the re- day after I had (only just) passed my bangers'), might have funded the take. driving test in Huddersfield. The annuity of which my Equitable Life adventure ended a few days later when pension plan promised so very much, Six point turn I had to abandon the car on a weekend but delivered so very little. The first test had followed a fivers-worth run to Loch Lomond, by whose bonnie of six, 30 minute driving lessons, and bonnie banks ‘Whoopee‘ just Whoopee comprised a 15 minute tootle along the whimpered and gave up the ghost with My first car was built the year I was back streets around Headingley Cricket a smoking, red-hot differential casing. born, and came into my possession 23 Ground before ending rather How was I to know that I should pump years later. It was a pert little Morris prematurely and ignominiously halfway grease into the back axle every 1000 Minor 2 seat ragtop tourer (sporting through what was shaping up to be a miles? She was towed into Helensburgh hand-knitted seat covers!), with spare six point turn. It seemed that an elderly, on the Clyde, repaired and collected by wheel mounted on a delightfully curved bulbous, sluggish, dual-controlled Morris myself two weeks later for £27.00…plus rump which Angelina Jolie might envy. Oxford fuelled on kangaroo juice was bus fare from Leeds of 30 shillings. ‘Whoopee’ as she became affectionately not a suitable car in which to learn to ‘Whoopee‘ was sold in 1954 to a known (WP 2804), was purchased for drive, or indeed, hope to pass a driving student for £35, and was last seen £45 jointly with my parents. (They were test. some 5 years later looking rather forlorn anxious to divert my petrolhead The qualified driver who later in the forecourt of a garage at Aberford aspirations away from the Panther on the old Great North Road. 250cc OHV motorbike I had secretively accompanied me on my practice runs in acquired by swapping a camera worth ‘Whoopee‘ was a neighbourly bus Today, not only has ‘Whoopee‘ £5, without parental approval). The bike driver, a jovial chap whose 6' 3", 18 disappeared, but also the garage and had originally emerged from the Phelon stone body made a dramatic contrast to indeed, the old A1 road itself at that and Moore factory at nearby that of myself as a 5' 6" stripling of 10 point, replaced by eight thundering Cleckheaton in 1937 as a gleaming stone, as we sat side by side in a lanes of the recently extended M1 sample of 2-wheel technology, but was rakishly lopsided 2 seat Minor, evoking motorway. now a rusty wreck which I rebuilt rather memories of Laurel and Hardy motoring classics. She was followed by another joint family badly into something of a death-trap. venture in the form of KUM 480, a I recall having to wear fishermen's Incongruous it may have been, but it gunmetal grey 1947 Vauxhall 10 which waders to ward off the oilspray that gave me the road sense and practice I set us back £330, a prodigious sum in those days virtually my annual gross income. It was only financed by splitting the purchase and running costs 3 ways with my parents on the understanding that every weekend would include a trip to coast or country, and I would provide a family taxi service with 24/7 availability. A fair deal I reckon.The car was sold 18 months later for £250, and the proceeds split three ways to help fund my move from home to digs in Newcastle, where I moved to a new job with a Tyneside advertising agency. 1934 Morris 10/4 aluminium-bodied special coachwork model GR 4, prior to fitting Lucas Minnie the Minx P100 headlamps from a Jaguar SS100. Winter 1959. As my next car had to be financed solely by myself, I had to revert to pre- war vintage, so I lashed out £85 on a 1936 Hillman Minx 10, a battleship grey,
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kind by passing on his top hat and tails, once worn at Ascot). For years afterwards, Frank wore the toff's togs in lieu of overalls, winning a name for excellent work, if oddball appearance. So Frank took control of our crisis, towing Granfer into his lock- up workshop, and started to scour Yorkshire scrapyards for a 25 year old 10/4 engine, whilst we returned to Newcastle by bus. About three weeks later Frank called me to say he had located a suitable Morris engine twenty miles away, and that he'd already tested, removed, and transported it to 1947 Vauxhall saloon reg. KUM 480 (virtually identical to 1939 pre-war model), with rare metallic silver his workshop, and given Granfer a paintwork, pictured alongside the Ilkley-Skipton road, West Yorkshire, May 1956. lifesaving heart transplant. His bill for the entire operation was an unbelievable £10, so I shall never forget 4-seat drophead coupe with 35,000 bi-monthly visits. Frank as the disarmingly odd miles on the clock and no - I didn't philanthropic Gentleman Engineer - and believe that of a 21 year old car either. It was during the winter of 1958 that we discovered Granfer's eyesight was you don't find many of those in today's ‘Minnie’ was registered in failing, so I replaced the individual car care establishments. Middlesbrough as XG 4070. She headlights with a pair of Lucas P100 This incident reminds me of a similar boasted novel Bendix cable braking units of 12" diameter - huge searchlights experience with the Hillman some years which tended to throw the car into a cannibalised from a wrecked 1938 earlier when, following a severe blizzard spin when driving forward, and to be Jaguar SS100. Regretfully, the car's at Christmas 1954 at Buckden in totally ineffective in reverse. This feature dynamo was not up to the job, providing Wharfedale, I had been unable to start I discovered when reversing down the a mere glow-worm of light for those the car. I phoned a motor engineer at ramp to board the Isle of Wight ferry, after dark A1 trips, made all the more Kettlewell, some seven miles down the guided only by the warning shouts of hazardous in wet, wintry conditions by a dale, who drove up to check over the nearby passengers and the terrified single, 6" windscreen wiper that swept car, returned to his garage to pick up a screams of my passengers. spasmodically. It had to be assisted by replacement top water hose, came back My forthcoming marriage enforced the hand operation in hard-driving rain, so I to Buckden and fitted it, cajoled the sale of 'Minnie', which had undergone a suppose we were something of an engine back into life and then asked hand repainting job in a Jesmond back accident waiting to happen, but happily only ten shillings (50p) for his time, street, and where the slow-drying paint we survived. expenses, parts and skill….and this was had acquired a surface coating of grit, However, Granfer regretfully underwent on Boxing Day. They don't make them the spinoff by-product of a mini-tornado a major mechanical catastrophe on one like Frank of Morley and Walter of which circled the area for an hour or so. of our visits to Yorkshire. Driving uphill Kettlewell any more. I was quite chuffed to get £65 for it, at near maximum revs (probably around Eventually, Granfer was sold to a which bought one rug, two carpets and 2000 rpm in this venerable side valve colleague for £10 (he was even more a 3-piece suite for our home at engine) a cacophonous metal-to-metal impecunious than myself), who Whickham, overlooking the Tyne valley. clatter announced the appearance of a managed to squeeze a few more miles It was a couple of years before we piston rod as it punched its way out of and months out of Granfer before 'old could afford to rejoin the ranks of what the side of the engine. A write-off, no faithful' was finally laid to rest in what I was then, the motorised minority. Our less. like to think of as a Motor Organ auction choice of a sombre black 1939 Mad Medley of Morley Exchange Facility, in effect, a scrapyard Morris 10 saloon for £35 was hurriedly I placed the car into the care of a Mr at Hebburn on Tyne. His aluminium reversed after we discovered on a run Frank Medley, a self employed car body may well now be reconstituted as to the Cheviots that it had consumed 3 service engineer and a man whose a Transatlantic superjet, or more likely pints of oil on a 100 mile trip, laying a eccentricity had led to his featuring in as a set of pans. R.I.P. blue-black haze of Castrol across the the national newspapers some years Posh Pitheap Northumbrian countryside. Our seven earlier. (It seems that following Frank's We celebrated the start of the Sixties day ownership had cost £5, the major overhaul of a Rolls Royce, the with an Austin A35 van which was 6 experience being so briefly traumatic local customer - now fallen into dire months old, had 6k on the clock and at that I never stopped to record the financial straits - had been unable to £365 cost £60 less than its brand new registration number or enquire about its pay in cash and had settled his bill in OTR price - a posh purchase by the ultimate destiny - the knacker's yard would be most appropriate. 1936 Hillman 10 four-seat tourer XG 4070, taking a much deserved breather before assaulting the 1700 Granfer ft climb over the Kirkstone Pass to Ullswater in Cumbria. ,May 1957. Licking our wounds we next fell for an even older 1934 Morris 10/4 in a fetching green/black duotone for £45. It was a special bodied 4 door saloon with custom built aluminium coachwork, leather seats and a horizontally split, opening windscreen - a very distinguished looking elderly gentleman of a car whom we promptly named ‘GRANFER‘, not least because of the unique registration GR 4. 'Granfer' served us very well for almost two years, transporting us up and down the A1 between our new home in Newcastle and our friends and family in West Yorkshire. This was shortly after the Suez crisis when petrol rationing was re-introduced, so we had to conserve our petrol coupons (supplemented by a couple of black market tanks full) for the
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kind by passing on his top hat and tails, 1300 range), often seen stationary at once worn at Ascot). the side of the road whenever rain fell in excess of a light drizzle. For years afterwards, Frank wore the toff's togs in lieu of overalls, winning a We have run a wide variety of motors name for excellent work, if oddball since that time in 1962, but few have appearance. So Frank took control of brought the hairy incidents or happy our crisis, towing Granfer into his lock- memories which these first ventures into up workshop, and started to scour the world of wheels created for us. Yorkshire scrapyards for a 25 year old Devilish Digits 10/4 engine, whilst we returned to In the ensuing 40 years, only one car Newcastle by bus. About three weeks plate will remain forever branded into later Frank called me to say he had my memory. This was YAK 666L, a located a suitable Morris engine twenty 1972 Audi 100 LS which left a miles away, and that he'd already frightening trail of death, misadventure tested, removed, and transported it to 1960 Austin A35 van reg. PTY 750 on "The and sheer tragedy in its five year life his workshop, and given Granfer a road to the Isles" (perhaps the safest place 1947 Vauxhall saloon reg. KUM 480 (virtually identical to 1939 pre-war model), with rare metallic silver for pregnant lady learner drivers ?). In effect, and left me with an awed respect of the paintwork, pictured alongside the Ilkley-Skipton road, West Yorkshire, May 1956. lifesaving heart transplant. His bill for a windowless ‘Countryman’ estate car, with ‘Devil's Number‘, 666. I purchased it in the entire operation was an added rear seats. Autumn 1960. 1975 from the estate of the original unbelievable £10, so I shall never forget 4-seat drophead coupe with 35,000 bi-monthly visits. owner, a very successful businessman, Frank as the disarmingly odd standards of our previous vehicles. column gearchange, bench front seat, who died suddenly from heart attack. miles on the clock and no - I didn't philanthropic Gentleman Engineer - and believe that of a 21 year old car either. It was during the winter of 1958 that we Locally registered as PTY 750 and grinning chrome grilles front and rear, Whilst in my ownership and on holiday discovered Granfer's eyesight was you don't find many of those in today's bought from a miner in Pity Me, Co this was the epitome of appaling in France I fell victim to that hated ‘Minnie’ was registered in failing, so I replaced the individual car care establishments. Durham she was christened ‘Pitheap‘, pseudo-Yankee taste which I can only French rule of the road ‘Priorite en Middlesbrough as XG 4070. She headlights with a pair of Lucas P100 This incident reminds me of a similar for obvious reasons, but also because attribute to a rush of blood. It was an Droit‘, subsequently abolished. The Audi boasted novel Bendix cable braking units of 12" diameter - huge searchlights experience with the Hillman some years we could never totally eliminate the tiny aberration we were very soon to regret was put into a garage in Le Touquet for which tended to throw the car into a cannibalised from a wrecked 1938 earlier when, following a severe blizzard fragments of coal which had collected in when the gearbox disintegrated, and the temporary repairs, sufficient to get us spin when driving forward, and to be Jaguar SS100. Regretfully, the car's at Christmas 1954 at Buckden in every nook and cranny of the interior. I £35 replacement bill brought us to the back home. When put into a Leeds totally ineffective in reverse. This feature dynamo was not up to the job, providing Wharfedale, I had been unable to start added a home made, folding bench seat realisation that any upper-middle class bodyshop for repair, the engineer I discovered when reversing down the a mere glow-worm of light for those the car. I phoned a motor engineer at in the back, so, like many A35 vans of pretensions we might harbour were pointed out a 9" gash on the inside of ramp to board the Isle of Wight ferry, after dark A1 trips, made all the more Kettlewell, some seven miles down the that era it became a windowless Austin really not for the likes of us. the front offside tyre, with the inner tube guided only by the warning shouts of hazardous in wet, wintry conditions by a 'Countryman' estate car, thereby saving bulging out, in which condition I had dale, who drove up to check over the If only we'd known, at today's values the nearby passengers and the terrified single, 6" windscreen wiper that swept car, returned to his garage to pick up a the 25% Purchase Tax which applied to driven the family almost 400 miles back screams of my passengers. spasmodically. It had to be assisted by passenger cars. registration plate would probably have to Yorkshire. replacement top water hose, came back bought ten Zodiacs. It was first My forthcoming marriage enforced the hand operation in hard-driving rain, so I to Buckden and fitted it, cajoled the suppose we were something of an Tax Penalty registered to a Whitley Bay landlady as But YAK 666L hadn't finished yet. I sold sale of 'Minnie', which had undergone a engine back into life and then asked As a penalty for this tax concession, MTN 22, promptly christened 'Dinky it to a US airman stationed at hand repainting job in a Jesmond back accident waiting to happen, but happily only ten shillings (50p) for his time, we survived. officialdom had imposed a speed limit Doo‘. MTN 22 almost concludes my Harrogate. A few months later whilst on street, and where the slow-drying paint expenses, parts and skill….and this was on vans of 40 mph, so in effect we were record of fortuitous acquisitions of rare a family outing with his wife, children had acquired a surface coating of grit, However, Granfer regretfully underwent on Boxing Day. They don't make them banned by law from driving in top gear motors and some even rarer and parents the car was involved in a the spinoff by-product of a mini-tornado a major mechanical catastrophe on one like Frank of Morley and Walter of on any road, including the fast new dual registrations, at a time when they really horrific collision in which all the which circled the area for an hour or so. of our visits to Yorkshire. Driving uphill Kettlewell any more. carriageway trunk roads being started to appreciate with dramatic occupants died or suffered appalling I was quite chuffed to get £65 for it, at near maximum revs (probably around Eventually, Granfer was sold to a introduced. This diktat was perhaps a effect. injuries. Very sobering. which bought one rug, two carpets and 2000 rpm in this venerable side valve colleague for £10 (he was even more forerunner of today's highway situation, a 3-piece suite for our home at engine) a cacophonous metal-to-metal Cheerful Cherub Today, we run a Ford Focus purchased impecunious than myself), who where unrealistic speed restrictions are new almost three years ago and it is Whickham, overlooking the Tyne valley. clatter announced the appearance of a indiscriminately imposed on many major This chronicle cannot end without our managed to squeeze a few more miles first purchase of a brand new car. It was perhaps a sad comment on the times It was a couple of years before we piston rod as it punched its way out of and months out of Granfer before 'old routes, enforced by photo-technology the side of the engine. A write-off, no a basic Morris Mini, Minor, a cheerful that even now I simply cannot recall the could afford to rejoin the ranks of what faithful' was finally laid to rest in what I reminiscent of George Orwell's Big singularly unmemorable computerised less. Brother in ‘1984‘. cherry red cherub blessed with was then, the motorised minority. Our like to think of as a Motor Organ registration 3479 DN, and predictably jumble of letters allegedly identifying our auction choice of a sombre black 1939 Mad Medley of Morley Exchange Facility, in effect, a scrapyard It also serves as a reminder of the named Deanna on first sight. By paying car. Now, if it was GR 4 or PTY 750 or Morris 10 saloon for £35 was hurriedly I placed the car into the care of a Mr at Hebburn on Tyne. His aluminium bureaucratic DVLA rationale which cash I received a £35 discount off the MTN 22 . . . that would make a very reversed after we discovered on a run Frank Medley, a self employed car body may well now be reconstituted as encouraged (indeed exploited) the list £565, not much by today's different story. to the Cheviots that it had consumed 3 service engineer and a man whose a Transatlantic superjet, or more likely personal and cherished car registration standards, but sufficient to buy petrol for Vernon Wood pints of oil on a 100 mile trip, laying a eccentricity had led to his featuring in as a set of pans. R.I.P. plate market, only - with the complicity the first few thousand miles. Poor blue-black haze of Castrol across the the national newspapers some years Posh Pitheap of Government - to impose petty and Deanna coughed and spluttered her Northumbrian countryside. Our seven earlier. (It seems that following Frank's We celebrated the start of the Sixties vindictive restrictions on the manner in way through our ownership and into old day ownership had cost £5, the major overhaul of a Rolls Royce, the with an Austin A35 van which was 6 which they are displayed. Does anyone age as a result of my 3 year old son experience being so briefly traumatic local customer - now fallen into dire months old, had 6k on the clock and at really believe, for instance, that ‘COMIC‘ shovelling dust into the petrol tank that I never stopped to record the financial straits - had been unable to £365 cost £60 less than its brand new is less memorable or identifiable than following theft of the petrol cap. I registration number or enquire about its pay in cash and had settled his bill in OTR price - a posh purchase by the ‘COM 1C‘ as DVLA and police advisers stripped the carburettor countless times ultimate destiny - the knacker's yard claim? I'm sure Jimmy Tarbuck doesn't, and had the tank cleaned, but every few would be most appropriate. 1936 Hillman 10 four-seat tourer XG 4070, taking a much deserved breather before assaulting the 1700 nor does any reasonable person whose weeks the car would cough to a Granfer ft climb over the Kirkstone Pass to Ullswater in Cumbria. ,May 1957. thinking process is unaffected by the standstill, ready to have the float Licking our wounds we next fell for an distortions of the Whitehall mindset. chamber drained and the jets and filters even older 1934 Morris 10/4 in a I taught my wife to drive in the A35, cleared yet one more time. Oddly fetching green/black duotone for £45. It mostly along the ruler-straight roads of enough, our Mini never suffered the was a special bodied 4 door saloon with Team Valley Trading Estate usually at wet-weather weakness of many of its custom built aluminium coachwork, weekends when the factories and fellow models (and also the 1100- leather seats and a horizontally split, offices were closed, and also on the A1, opening windscreen - a very into the North Pennines and Scotland. distinguished looking elderly gentleman She quickly became a very practiced of a car whom we promptly named and proficient driver to such an extent ‘GRANFER‘, not least because of the that on her driving test the terrified unique registration GR 4. 'Granfer' examiner failed her for over-confidence. served us very well for almost two Sometimes, you just can't win. Mad about plates years, transporting us up and down the ? A1 between our new home in Newcastle Zany Zephyr-Zodiac Do you have a story about and our friends and family in West I think a touch of madness descended number plates? Yorkshire. This was shortly after the on the family for our next car, when we If so, please send an email to: Suez crisis when petrol rationing was part-exchanged the A35 for a 1957 Ford re-introduced, so we had to conserve Zephyr-Zodiac, a garish red and black [email protected] our petrol coupons (supplemented by a 6-cylinder monster which only scraped couple of black market tanks full) for the (often literally) through the driveway gateposts with 3" to spare. Steering
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A word from the RNC The Registration Numbers Club, is the only traditional Are Cherished Number UK based club catering for enthusiasts of personalised vehicle Enthusiasts Stereotypes? registration numbers . . . joining us costs very little and the benefits could by Rod Lomax, RNC Publicity Officer be substantial. We were originally founded in 1977 and currently It's very easy to place people into appearance of the plate and have produce a quarterly newsletter, RNC stereotype slots these days, even spent very little, whilst others are true News, which is the original independent club publication and is though it may not be particularly enthusiasts - searching out that available free to subscribing politically correct! Bringing cars into elusive combination to complete their members. the equation is, however, a different collection and creating an unusual but The club is run by Honorary matter and generally works out satisfying hobby in the process. Secretary, Steve Waldenberg from something along the lines of “He's a the RNC office in Leeds. Rod Lomax It doesn't matter whether you drive an sales representative so must be from Bury in Lancashire is the club old banger or a limousine. As long as driving a Ford Mondeo or a Vauxhall Publicity Officer and John Harrison, the vehicle is taxed and has a current who has an expert knowledge of the Vectra” and “She's a school run mum whole system of vehicle registration so will be driving a people carrier or in this country, is club Archivist & large 4x4.” Also springing to mind are Advisor. the youngsters who have just passed For information about the RNC, their driving tests and just have to please contact: have a Vauxhall Corsa. Anyone Steve Waldenberg involved in an accident, of course, is Honorary Organising Secretary usually asked “was it a BMW?” by RNC Office friends in the pub. PO Box MT12 Leeds LS17 7UD Tel : 0113 226 7497 Fax: 0113 226 1110 MOT certificate, you can purchase and then assign a cherished number Email: organisation@ registrationnumbersclub.org.uk plate to it. You will have a lot of fun with its ownership, not least of which Rod Lomax Publicity Officer could result from becoming a member of the RNC, enjoying its quarterly 5 Bank Top Baldingstone newsletter and attend the annual Bury, Lancs dinner and rally. BL9 6RY Tel: 0161 764 8180 In the 1980s, city slickers usually Fax: 0161 764 3800 wore red braces and drove a Porsche Email: publicity@ 911 or 944 almost exclusively painted registrationnumbersclub.org.uk in Guards Red with black interior. The John Harrison 'loadsamoney' brigade had arrived The 2007 RNC rally Archivist & Advisor and with it a near explosion in 175 Hillyfields cherished number plate ownership, On Sunday 1 July 2007 the RNC will hold its 30th Anniversary rally at Loughton which expressed how you had literally Essex IG10 2PW just made it big time in the city. Capesthorne Hall in rural Cheshire. The evening before, there will be a Tel: 020 8508 8851 Fortunately, today, it no longer takes a (evenings/weekends only) city slickers bonus to buy a cherished members’ dinner at a nearby venue - Email: [email protected] plate. full details of which will be published in the next issue. The Registration Numbers Club also turns the notion, that you have to be Registration Numbers Club rallies demand, so there really will be wealthy or flashy to even want to be allow members from all around the something for everyone. As usual associated with cherished numbers, country to meet up and participate in trophies will be awarded in each class on the head - we have members from a light-hearted competition where and there will be the usual raffle to all walks of life. Some have inherited their registrations are placed in raise funds for the club. Full details excellent and valuable plates, some different classes. There will be eleven will be posted on the club web site - just like the individuality and of these in 2007 due to popular www.rnc.cc - in due course.
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A word from the RNC The Registration Numbers Club, is the only traditional Are Cherished Number UK based club catering UK & International for enthusiasts of personalised vehicle Enthusiasts Stereotypes? registration numbers . . . joining us by Rod Lomax, RNC Publicity Officer costs very little and the benefits could Number Plate News be substantial. We were originally founded in 1977 and currently It's very easy to place people into appearance of the plate and have produce a quarterly newsletter, RNC stereotype slots these days, even spent very little, whilst others are true News, which is the original independent club publication and is These national and international stories are published by kind permission of www.numberplates.com, the personal number plates club though it may not be particularly enthusiasts - searching out that available free to subscribing politically correct! Bringing cars into elusive combination to complete their members. point, saying: “But if you are going featuring company brands to be the equation is, however, a different collection and creating an unusual but The club is run by Honorary matter and generally works out satisfying hobby in the process. Secretary, Steve Waldenberg from British cyclists to ban jaywalking you're going to banned. something along the lines of “He's a the RNC office in Leeds. Rod Lomax have a lot more actual formal It doesn't matter whether you drive an may need number The news comes after number sales representative so must be from Bury in Lancashire is the club old banger or a limousine. As long as pedestrian crossings.” driving a Ford Mondeo or a Vauxhall Publicity Officer and John Harrison, plates featuring the terms 'HSBC' the vehicle is taxed and has a current who has an expert knowledge of the plates and 'Sony' were sold at auction on Vectra” and “She's a school run mum whole system of vehicle registration so will be driving a people carrier or in this country, is club Archivist & The Mayor of London, New style number Saturday, along with another large 4x4.” Also springing to mind are Advisor. Ken Livingstone, has plates for Belgium spelling 'Ferrari'. The plates were the youngsters who have just passed For information about the RNC, unveiled plans to sold to a restauranteur for their driving tests and just have to please contact: introduce number Vehicles in Belgium HK$2 million (£135,000). have a Vauxhall Corsa. Anyone Steve Waldenberg plates on bicycles. The plan is will be displaying Business group have warned over involved in an accident, of course, is Honorary Organising Secretary designed to catch cyclists who new-style number copyright issues and the possibility usually asked “was it a BMW?” by RNC Office constantly violate traffic rules by plates as from 2008. of lawsuits if the numberplates are friends in the pub. PO Box MT12 running red lights or pedaling on The current system of three letters Leeds LS17 7UD used for commercial purposes. pavements. The violator's followed by three numbers will be Tel : 0113 226 7497 Fax: 0113 226 1110 numberplate would then be caught exhausted. Finance development chief Fred MOT certificate, you can purchase on traffic cameras and the cyclist Ma, said: “We had already and then assign a cherished number Email: organisation@ The new-style number plates will be registrationnumbersclub.org.uk would be prosecuted. combinations of three numbers consulted legal opinion when we plate to it. You will have a lot of fun formulated the scheme. We are with its ownership, not least of which Rod Lomax The number of bicycles on the followed by three letters, after the Publicity Officer confident that the personalised could result from becoming a member streets of London has risen by 50% government ruled out the vehicle registration scheme can of the RNC, enjoying its quarterly 5 Bank Top in the past five years, with the need introduction of a larger European Baldingstone stand up to (legal) challenges.” newsletter and attend the annual Bury, Lancs for registration numbers becoming Union number plate model, as used dinner and rally. BL9 6RY apparent. Livingstone did not say in Germany, Holland and Britain. Tel: 0161 764 8180 whether cyclists would have to pay Changing the size of the number Commemorative In the 1980s, city slickers usually Fax: 0161 764 3800 to register their bikes, but plates would cost too much money wore red braces and drove a Porsche Email: publicity@ registration plates would be and result in the taxpayer footing number plates 911 or 944 almost exclusively painted registrationnumbersclub.org.uk the bill, according to Belgian in Guards Red with black interior. The compulsory. cause confusion John Harrison Federal Transport Minister Renaat 'loadsamoney' brigade had arrived The 2007 RNC rally Archivist & Advisor Livingstone added that he was and with it a near explosion in Landuyt. in USA On Sunday 1 July 2007 the RNC will 175 Hillyfields looking to introduce jaywalking as cherished number plate ownership, Loughton an offence, to fall in line with US In Belgium, everyone who registers Last month's South which expressed how you had literally hold its 30th Anniversary rally at Essex IG10 2PW legislation. This would make it an a car receives a personal number Dakota Vietnam War just made it big time in the city. Capesthorne Hall in rural Cheshire. The evening before, there will be a Tel: 020 8508 8851 arrestable offence to cross a road plate, which they keep throughout Memorial Dedication Fortunately, today, it no longer takes a (evenings/weekends only) caused confusion for city slickers bonus to buy a cherished members’ dinner at a nearby venue - anywhere other than a specific their lives. In most other countries, Email: [email protected] some of the attendees, when plate. full details of which will be published crossing. such as Britain, the number plate in the next issue. stays with the car. As a result, all 14 commemorative number plates The Registration Numbers Club also Speaking on the London radio million possible combinations of were received in their gift bags. turns the notion, that you have to be Registration Numbers Club rallies demand, so there really will be station LBC, Mr Livingstone said: allow members from all around the something for everyone. As usual three letters followed by three wealthy or flashy to even want to be “I think, I'm now persuaded, we Some of the veterans attending the country to meet up and participate in trophies will be awarded in each class numbers will be exhausted by 2008. associated with cherished numbers, should actually say that bikes and event believed that the number on the head - we have members from a light-hearted competition where and there will be the usual raffle to plates could be displayed on their their registrations are placed in raise funds for the club. Full details their owners should be registered. all walks of life. Some have inherited There should be a numberplate on Personalised cars as regular car registrations. excellent and valuable plates, some different classes. There will be eleven will be posted on the club web site - the back so that ones breaking the Officials at with the South Dakota just like the individuality and of these in 2007 due to popular www.rnc.cc - in due course. number plates law, we can get them off the Department of Revenue and cameras. It's the only way you can anger Hong Kong Regulation, Division of Motor do it.” Vehicles, were quick to end the businessmen confusion. Division Director, Debra Many people had worried that the A group of Hillmer, said: “A vehicle must plans to outlaw jaywalking would businessmen in Hong almost certainly mean that many continued > > > Kong are more crossings would be built, campaigning for the making it even harder to drive in sale of personalised number plates London. Livingstone admitted this
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