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.

1 BUM Number Plate Banned!

A POLICEMAN has appealed against a decision to ban 1BUM as a personalised numberplate for his new $20,000 motorbike. Tony Pedersen, 44, said the Motor Vehicle Registry told him that the rego plate was “obscene”. The senior constable has sent

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  • 21st May, 2010

Indian Number Plates a Status Symbol

A farmer-turn-realtor recently bid a whopping Rs 10 lakh to have a VIP registration number for his SUV. Many affluent Punjabis have, in the past, spent big money to have their preferred number for their vehicle, but Chandigarh-based NS Shergill

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  • 19th May, 2010

Punjab First Ever Number Plate Auctions

In a first-of-its-kind, the UT administration’s Registration and Licensing Authority (RLA) earned a whopping Rs 10 lakh for the auction of a vehicle number CH01AC on Saturday. The proud buyer, Sector 33-C resident Narinder Singh Shergill, is an agriculturist. Shergill

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  • 17th May, 2010

New York Empire Plate Update

Thanks to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, I’ve seen more and more cars passing by with yet another thing my car does not have, but this time it wasn’t a quiet exhaust, a clean interior, or a

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  • 16th May, 2010

New Number Plates Limpopo

MOTORISTS in Limpopo will be in for a tough time as the provincial roads and transport department plans to replace current registration plates with new ones. Motorists will have to dig deep into their pockets to pay for the new

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  • 13th May, 2010

Number Plate News Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Department of Motor Vehicles has decided to begin issuing number plates with three English letters for the newly registered vehicles soon. This was were revealed when the new Minister of Transport Kumara Welgama visited the office of the

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  • 13th May, 2010

Hispanic Achievers Number Plate Proposed

A proposed number plate that would allow drivers to express pride in Florida’s Hispanic heritage could become available soon to many of the 3.8 million Latinos who call the state home. The “Hispanic Achievers” plate made it to the short

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  • 13th May, 2010

Joplin Number Plate Mural

National Tourism Week kicked off Monday and the Missouri Welcome Center hopes to inspire people to travel. The Welcome Center on I-44 is home to a mural consisting of 500 license plates that spell out “Joplin”. All 50 states are

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  • 13th May, 2010

Number Plate Changes For Farmers

Gov. Bill Ritter on Monday vetoed his first bill of the session, nixing a measure that would have changed number plate requirements for farmers. House Bill 1101 would have prohibited issuers of farm-truck number plates from requiring registrants to show

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  • 11th May, 2010

Car Registrations 1.23 Million Refund – Malta

706 car owners are owed a total of €1.23 million in refunds on the balance of the registration tax they paid in 2008, in view of amendments to the law. Finance Minister Tonio Fenech explained in Parliament yesterday that all

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  • 11th May, 2010