please empty your brain below
All number plates are personal, no one else has that one but the owner. NA55OXF

Nick | 14.04.15 - 7:05 a.m. | #

OWL 8OT... Argh, I can't get it...

EskimoPie | 14.04.15 - 7:38 a.m. | #

Erm, there's lots of naff ones around, sometimes even with bits of numbers sliced off in an attempt to look like some letter or other. I have spotted T 1 PME on a black cab though, and two cars parked next to each other in Mayfair with the plates 2 B and NOT 2 B.

Lorenzo | 14.04.15 - 7:43 a.m. | #

@EskimoPie, I think you are meant to look at the 8 as a B then OWL 80T becomes OWL B0T which when you say it out loud sounds a bit like Albert, at least that is the way I see it.

Barry | 14.04.15 - 8:23 a.m. | #

An astronomer friend of mine has FMERIS. I like it.

Great Aunt Annie | 14.04.15 - 8:31 a.m. | #

FMERIS - presumably FME 121S as you can't have more than three letters together.

OWL BOT - maybe a member of the Barn Owl Trust?

timbo | 14.04.15 - 9:52 a.m. | #

I have one, but it's something personal to me and isn't obviously a vanity plate unless you think about it. I don't need to adjust the letters, nor does it try to be a word.

Brad | 14.04.15 - 10:26 a.m. | #

At least one of our city councillors has a personalised number plate which, I think, says rather more about him than he might like to think!

Bronchitikat | Homepage | 14.04.15 - 10:28 a.m. | #

There is an easy and cheaper way of getting a personalised number plate if you think about it.

KA78 7RT | 14.04.15 - 11:01 a.m. | #

@timbo: I omitted to mention that my astronomer friend lives in New Zealand where you're allowed to have all letters.

Great Aunt Annie | 14.04.15 - 12:30 p.m. | #

Here in North America you can have real personalized plates, not just ones that fit the DoT criteria. I saw a US plate a few months ago that read "RSLICK". Not sure who'd want that on their car!

Jim Webber | 14.04.15 - 8:00 p.m. | #

DG did a blog about number plates I think. I remember a plumber's was something like "P006 ONE". Please can DG d(i)g it out?

Half a physicist | 14.04.15 - 8:41 p.m. | #

Pimlico Plumbers have an excellent selection. I know it's vanity to a degree, but I do think it also indicates attention to detail and a pride in the company which I would hope extends to their work. See also Carousel Buses et al. Boris Buses are perhaps the exception that proves the rule, but even there you could point to some (misguided?) sense of pride.

Andrew Simpson | 14.04.15 - 9:30 p.m. | #











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