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.

Shriners Number Plates – Nebraska

Every year for almost a decade, the Shriners made sure there was a bill before the Legislature to create a number plate honoring their work with children. No bill ever made it into law, as senators shied from opening the

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  • 8th May, 2010

Number Plate Spray Proven To Be Ineffective

Traffic police yesterday said they have a number of solutions to foil motorists who use a special spray to blur their vehicle’s number plate from speed cameras. “An additional fine, ranging from NT$2,400 to NT$4,800, will be issued on top

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  • 8th May, 2010

Number 1 Bus Registration Plate Needs Law Change

Thursday’s Globe described an effort by Biff Michaud of Marblehead to hold onto a bus number plate bearing the number 1 — a plate granted by Governor John Volpe in 1966 to Michaud’s now-deceased father. The Registry of Motor Vehicles

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  • 7th May, 2010

California Snoopy Number Plate

The California Association of Museums has launched a campaign to have a Snoopy drawing by Charles Schulz appear on a special California license plate. Proceeds from sales of the plates would establish a sustainable grant program to support state museums.

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  • 6th May, 2010

CD 1 Mayor’s Plate Worth £150,000!

The “CD 1” plate, which has been valued by independent experts, has been attached to the Mayor of Brighton and Hove’s car for the last thirty years. But now with council bean counters trying to make at least £45 million

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  • 6th May, 2010

New York Number Plates

Well, every 10 years or so our wonderful state decides to change the design of our number plates: 1969 gave us blue with yellow numbers—bad, but not horrible. They got real creative in 1974 and reversed it, yellow with blue

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  • 4th May, 2010

New Jersey Number Plate Sequence

The state Motor Vehicle Commission is answering this question: What comes after ZZZ? With the current New Jersey number plate format running out of combinations that begin with three letters, the MVC has begun making license plates that will begin

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  • 4th May, 2010

Texas – Breast Cancer Awareness Number Plate

Starting today (May 3), Texas will offer a specialty number plate to promote breast cancer awareness and to help support the Frisco-based National Breast Cancer Foundation, according to Emaxhealth.com. Two number plate designs are being offered for $55 a year,

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  • 3rd May, 2010

DVLA SORN System Fails In Court

The DVLA’s off-road notification system is a shambles: legally unenforceable and administrative chaos. Two recent court cases suggest that the DVLA has been acting unlawfully and does not have the powers it thinks it has when it comes to pushing

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  • 3rd May, 2010

Gangtok – High Security Number Plates

GANGTOK, May 2 – The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has circulated gazette notifications to all States and Union Territories for implementation of the new system of High-Security Registration Plates (HSRP). Accordingly, the HSRP in Sikkim has already

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  • 2nd May, 2010