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.

Switching Numberplates to Avoid Fines?

Nigel Roger Williams, 44, from Torquay, Devon, was photographed speeding in his MG ZR car on the A3022 in November 2007 by a Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership van. He denied it was his car, later supplying photographs of

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  • 18th Feb, 2010

New Numberplate System in April –

The current new car registration numbers start with the letter Y. It is estimated that Gauteng will have exhausted its number series by the end of October. On average, 43 000 vehicles are registered in Gauteng each month. The biggest

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  • 18th Feb, 2010

Numberplate Sticker Replacement – Queensland

It is reported that more than five million numberplate stickers provided to motorists during 2009 were starting to peel. The problem began after Queensland Transport’s contractor started using a different adhesive batch at the start of last year. The stickerless

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  • 18th Feb, 2010

car numberplate trivia – abbey road

Number plate trivia – The Volkswagen Beetle parked next to the zebra crossing on the Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road album sleeve, belonged to one of the people living in the apartment across from the recording studio. After the album came

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

DVLA withdraws offensive numberplates

An Oklahoma student is suing state officials for barring him from getting a personalised car numberplate reading “IM GAY”. Keith Kimmel, of the Oklahoma City Community College, says his First Amendment rights have been violated and that he will appeal

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

New car numberplate advertising regulations

“No ornamentation, figure or letter that is not a component of the standard equipment or construction of a vehicle, may appear within 150mm of the vehicle’s car number plate.” New regulations make it illegal to print any form of advertising

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

Cherished Car Numberplates for Georgia

The money actually represents a savings, said committee Chairman Jack Hill, R-Reidsville. Otherwise, senators would have been forced to add $1.2 million to the $17.4 billion amended budget recommended by Gov. Sonny Perdue to buy a new supply of traditional

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

Cherished Number Auction Listing Now Online

The cherished registration auction for March 2010 listing is now available online at the Image Reg website. Prices are still subdued so its a perfect time to invest in cherished plates. We also offer a bidding service so why not

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  • 14th Feb, 2010

Reg Plate News – Australia

If immigrants arrived from Mars, after a few years of jokes about their being aliens they would fit right in and lead the rude remarks when the Venusians turned up. But we go all tense and tribal on the roads.

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  • 14th Feb, 2010