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Trigger:
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--- Quote from: Trigger on September 04, 2023, 08:03:31 AM ---The mudguards were just parts to Honda. Though in the UK we scraped front plates in 1973 they would of fitted them as it was on the assembly line. I have seen UK CB750K2 with front plates right up to 1975 ;)
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Spot on Trig, time to unearth a tear jerking memory!! Purchased in late '74, front plates removed and screwed to garage wall late '75. Bike was sold in '77 complete with number plate as the collection fad had not really taken off then. Ho hum. (Plate is now worn by a 500 Mercedes!)
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Nice old picture ;)
They kept the front plates even after changing the front mudguard from the 300 to the 341 in early 1974.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
They changed the regulations on transfering plates from bikes to cars. Pretty sure they stopped it.
Local firm JCB bought a load of new mopeds so that all the company cars were JCB 1, JCB 2, etc I believe it was originally a Welsh local authority - this was before DVLA replaced local authority licensing circa 1973/4
JCB sold on the mopeds after transferring the numbers iirc they bought a block of ten. JCB1 I think is Anthony Bamford's Bentley.
For an urgent owner check at weekends Police had a key to Matlock records for the County Registrations, it was an alphabetical card system. If the car was sold to someone living outside derbyshire the card would direct you to say Nott's. Notts would then check their records. If a vehicle had changed hands a few times it might take over a day to trace it's current owner.
Orcade-Ian:
Lovely time warp pic there Micky.
In the 60's and 70's when we ended up with 7 digits on plates, the local office in Hull (Trippett St. for Ash) only issued 1 to 99 numbers to motorcycles to keep no more than 6 digits for the rear plate, so a great many of those have been moved on to expensive cars. Not sure if that was a Gov thing or just Hull?
Ian
They certainly did stop bike to car/ car to bike (and tractor to anything) transfers but the former is now allowed - I've done one of each recently.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
--- Quote from: Orcade-Ian on September 04, 2023, 09:24:12 AM ---Lovely time warp pic there Micky.
In the 60's and 70's when we ended up with 7 digits on plates, the local office in Hull (Trippett St. for Ash) only issued 1 to 99 numbers to motorcycles to keep no more than 6 digits for the rear plate, so a great many of those have been moved on to expensive cars. Not sure if that was a Gov thing or just Hull?
Ian
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I think many local authorities (Burton on Trent defo:) used to retain low digit registration numbers not just for motorcycles but they kept low ones for local authority vehicles like snow ploughs, Corporation Busses etc.
Me doing my best to grow a moustache circa 1970.
Ted's Honda 250 circa 1967 by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr
Bryanj:
It used to be you could go upwards but not backwards on plates with moped at bottom and hgv at top but dvla change the rules every tea break so who knows.
One nice little earner for them is it costs £80 to tranfer a reg to a retention certificate then if you sell it the new owner has to pay another £80 to use it but if you know the new owners name and tick the small unseen box when asking for cert its only one £80.
Aint our rip off systems wonderfull!!!
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