Author: Reg Plates Editor
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.

Plate Registrations Abuse Reported

Number plates on vehicles have been turned into mobile canvases by some enterprising artistes and vehicle owners. The work of art may catch the fancy of onlookers but is actually an eyesore and illegal. The motorists are cocking a snook

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  • 28th Mar, 2011

Michael Kalish Designed Number Plates

The DRIVE4COPD national public health initiative today announced its partnership with renowned American artist and sculptor Michael Kalish. Kalish will create a large-scale monument called 24M: The DRIVE4COPD Monument, inspired by the DRIVE4COPD campaign pinwheel icon. Kalish will use his

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  • 24th Mar, 2011

Diplomatic Plates For Car Registrations

AHEAD of the forthcoming general election, politicians now use police and diplomatic vehicle number plates for both their electioneering and private use to beat security checks. A highly placed security source made the revelations to the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja

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  • 22nd Mar, 2011

Gardeners Numberplates For Alabama

The state of Alabama has no shortage of vanity license plates — schools, sororities and even square dancers have their own unique car tag available for an extra fee. Now, gardeners are getting into the game. Green thumbs and others

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  • 22nd Mar, 2011

The Biggest Number Plate Fan Ever?

Mark Adams looks up and down at the “license plate barn,” as it’s known, which serves as the reckoning point for directions in this tiny Spencer County community on Indiana 161, five miles north of Richland City. “You just say,

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  • 21st Mar, 2011

Regplates Banned, Its Official!

officials said their “Special Plate Inhibit List,” a list of banned license plates letter and number combinations, has grown to 4,758. Candace Wanzo, head of the specialty plate department in Springfield, said she and her staff use Web sites including

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  • 21st Mar, 2011

Ablanian Number Plates To Copy EU

The Albanian government has made changes to the country’s Road Code in order to bring national license plates closer to a European Union ‘format’. For such purpose the new license plates will have a blue background on the sides in

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  • 16th Mar, 2011

DVLA To Change Number Plate Test

In its consultation document, the DVLA plans to make the basic number plate test easier. Drivers will soon have to be able to read a number plate at 17.5 metres (as opposed to the current 20 metres) on the day

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  • 14th Mar, 2011