Jon Cherry, Author at Personalised Private Registration Number Plate Blog

Author: Jon Cherry
Jon Cherry is a Director of leading personalised number plate dealer Regplates.com. Jon has over 25 years industry experience handling some of the most expensive plates ever sold with many high profile and celebrity clients. Active since 1991 in the number plate industry, Jon is currently Chairman of the Cherished Numbers Guild, a trade body representing number plate dealers in the UK. Jon has written many articles on the industry and insight into the future of numberplates and the market as a whole.

XX Evil NUmber Plate Arrives!

The Wizard of Mod (as in modification) tore into town in his Ferrari Enzo for the Indy-car Series this weekend, not using all of his available 392 km/h speed. “The cops are always looking for me,” says Zahir Rana, a

25th Jul, 2011

Auction Number Plate Hits New High

This monsoon, its raining money at the Regional Transport Office (RTO) here. In just a day, the RTO has earned around Rs 50 lakh by auctioning registration numbers. The highest bid of all was Rs 2,42,999 for the registration number

21st Jul, 2011

Social Mobility In Cherished Numbers

It was reported last week that Public Relations and Public Affairs Minister Dr Mervyn Silva had written to the Inspector General of Police regarding the use by his staff of garage number plates. Apparently President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ordered him

18th Jul, 2011

Number Plate Interest Rises

THREE times more people in the Isle of Man are interested in cherished car number plates than the economy, according to statistics released yesterday by government. The figures have been released by the Department of Economic Development in response to

14th Jul, 2011

Numberplate Police Are Not The ‘Boss’

The numberplate of his Honda City read ‘BOSS’ till somebody clicked a picture and uploaded it on the Facebook page of Delhi Traffic Police. The traffic police have slapped a challan on the owner of the vehicle, confiscated his driving

13th Jul, 2011

Number Plate Security Issues

A consultant to Niger State Board of Internal Revenue Service on Vehicle and Motorcycle Number Plates, Alhaji Musa Ahmed, has said that the shortage of vehicle and motorcycle number plates at the Lagos factory of the Federal Roads Safety Corps

11th Jul, 2011

Bugatti Launches Millionaires Toy

The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L’Or Blanc is being dubbed the world’s most expensive new car, costing the unidentified owner a cool $2.4 million (AU$2.33 million). The super-luxurious Veyron has been specially ordered by a UAE-based business man. Featuring things

6th Jul, 2011

Number Plate Auction Brings Huge Prices

The 72nd Distinguished Number Plates Auction recently organized by the Licensing Agency, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) was a largely popular event fetching over AED16.9m in proceeds. It was held at the RTA Auditorium and was attended by various denominations

5th Jul, 2011

Government considering uniform vehicle number plates to be used

The Department of Transport is considering introducing uniform vehicle number plates to be used in all provinces, in line with practices in the Southern African Development Community. This comes just a few months after Gauteng launched a new series of

5th Jul, 2011

DVLA Bans Numberplate As Obscene

A man from Chesterfield was ordered to remove a naughty number plate by the DVLA, even though he bought it from their website. Alan Clarke, 49, paid £399 for the plate ‘BO11 LUX’ and fitted it to his new Range