please empty your brain below
I was delighted when Bullocks Coaches in Manchester got BU11 OCK and BU11 OKS for their new buses.

Kirk | 16.06.12 - 8:05 a.m. | #

Nice one DG.

Bernie | 16.06.12 - 8:05 a.m. | #

In Streatham there's a dentist with two nice cars which have the plates 7OOTH and D3CAY

Adam | Homepage | 16.06.12 - 8:09 a.m. | #

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grangeb7/2744018436/

Debster | Homepage | 16.06.12 - 8:18 a.m. | #

Also seen L002WET on a plumber's van.
Y10 MAM was a favourite, too.

Chz | 16.06.12 - 8:18 a.m. | #

Pimlico Plumbers are famous for many such appropriate numberplates. Also, on my regular walk to the station I often see the van of a water treatment company, numberplate starting with "H2O" with the 2 suitably misaligned. sorry, I'm not technically minded enough to do photos.

amber | 16.06.12 - 8:34 a.m. | #

D14 MND 810 GGA

Waterhouse | 16.06.12 - 8:44 a.m. | #

Not forgetting GEE 23R

diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.06.12 - 8:45 a.m. | #

My car is LK 10 FTP

and is called Family Transport Protocol

But local kids read it differently and think I have lots of street cred!

Steve Barker | Homepage | 16.06.12 - 9:55 a.m. | #

This one's a cracker:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benpatio/256235379/in/faves-8007878@N02/

SJM | 16.06.12 - 10:08 a.m. | #

A local dentist has CAV 17Y, and you can work out who around here drives K9 VET

NLW | 16.06.12 - 10:21 a.m. | #

Seen P57CHO in Teddington. And 1 UP on a Rolls Royce

Sadly someone else has T1 MBO

Northern Ireland plate FIG4120 seen on a Nissan Figaro

DG33ZER will come up in 21 years time, if you want to wait!

timbo | 16.06.12 - 11:01 a.m. | #

Not so long ago I found myself stuck behind a 4X4 on the typical afternoon schoolrun. The number was something like BE57 MAM.
I think it was around that moment that I wanted a number plate that just said OMFG :(

RogerW | 16.06.12 - 11:56 a.m. | #

Pimlico have published a list of theirs:
http://about-us.pimlicoplumbers.com/corporate-identity/number-plates

timbo | 16.06.12 - 3:51 p.m. | #

A friend of ours was fined £500 for incorrectly spacing a number plate so that it read as words (it can be up to £1,000 and DVLA will withdraw the plate if you've made rude or discriminatory words from it).

Many garages will also fail you on an MOT for not complying with the official regulations on spacing. I understand that some people have 2 sets of plates - one for MOT day, and one for the rest of the year.

Police in many areas have occasional 'purges' on mis-spaced plates (some just issue a FPN which you have to take to the no. plate supplier, have signed and stamped, and then send back to show you have had a properly spaced plate made when it's been corrected), and it's a great reason for a traffic cop to stop you late at night.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/PersonalisedRegAndNumberPlates/DG_181503

I've never quite understood this though, as memorable number plates must surely be easier to remember if the vehicles are breaking traffic laws, invovled in criminal activity etc etc.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 16.06.12 - 4:22 p.m. | #

I just changed my name to match my existing number plate.

Much cheaper.

SBK 137R | 16.06.12 - 5:40 p.m. | #

I saw DE51RED recently, although it was on a car transporter.

There's also a local stage hire company with a good one linked to their name, but I can't remember it offhand, and my phone's currently knackered...

Lyle | Homepage | 16.06.12 - 8:31 p.m. | #

@Blue Witch
It's not about remembering - all about ANPR

| 16.06.12 - 9:02 p.m. | #

@Blue witch
and it's sometimes about doctoring the plate (extra bolts to make an 11 look like an H, or a "1" like an "i"

timbo | 16.06.12 - 9:07 p.m. | #

DE51RED is owned by Vauxhall and regularly placed on one of their Press fleet, recently it's been on a VXR8.

Rob | 16.06.12 - 9:40 p.m. | #

I've seen L 1 ONS driving around in SE London, in the vicinity of the Millwall ground.
I think the best one I ever saw, though, was in Regent St, back in the 1970's... which was a primrose yellow E-Type with the number PEN 15

RogerW | 16.06.12 - 11:05 p.m. | #

For many years POT registrations were used by the directors of a company called Wards of Darlaston who made flower pots!

tony Martin | 17.06.12 - 8:07 a.m. | #

Rob,

You're right, it was on a VXR8 - bright yellow, I think. They had another one on the same transporter, but can't recall what that one was.

Lyle | Homepage | 17.06.12 - 11:36 a.m. | #

@Blue Witch.

What you describe is not an FPN (Fixed Penalty Notice). It is a ticket issued under the VDRS (Vehicle Defect Rectification System). There is no financial penalty (other than the cost of obtaining the certificate to prove rectification) and it is never endorsable. VDRS notifications can be issued for all manner of things as an alternative to an FPN. One reason that they aren't is that the police have to do most of the paperwork for an FPN anyway in case you don't produce the certificate. But the idea is a good one, just the implementation that is flawed. After all, the real objective is to make sure the faulty brake light/tyres/wing mirror etc. is fixed rather than to fine the person - which may go unpaid and often doesn't prompt the owner to fix the initial problem.

Pedantic of Purley | 17.06.12 - 12:00 p.m. | #

Move to Australia and you can choose whatever you like and where as far as I know number plates are all manufactured in prisons... And there is a choice of colour :-)

| 17.06.12 - 12:29 p.m. | #

The ANPR argument is flawed/a good excuse - ANPR is not as daft as it's made out to be.

PofP - yes, thanks, that's what I meant. Mental block on acronyms last night.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 17.06.12 - 7:26 p.m. | #

I've seen T1 POT parked outside the Thai Pot restaurant in the Strand so I guess there's a connection!

IanB | 18.06.12 - 12:06 p.m. | #











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