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.

Car Number Plates Are Educational – its official!

Hard to believe I know but number plates have actually saved scholarships. Earnings from University of Montana specialty car number plates helped save hundreds of scholarships threatened by the economic downturn this academic year. “We had a significant deficit last

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  • 19th Feb, 2010

Car Registrations Oregon – update

A new version of the classic Oregon “Pacific Wonderland” vehicle plate will be available starting March 1 from Oregon DMV. 40,000 sets of these commemorative plates will be stamped, and they are only available for passenger vehicles, so you can’t

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  • 19th Feb, 2010

Number Plate Shortgate – Kenya

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) said on Wednesday that it was not in a position to meet the demand for number plates until after next Tuesday, because the supplier–Kenya Prisons–was facing challenges in delivering the plates. This has led to congestion

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  • 19th Feb, 2010

Number Plate ‘7’ to be auctioned

The number plate 7 is to be offered for sale at an auction to be held at 4pm at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. It is being organised by the Abu Dhabi Police in collaboration with the

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  • 18th Feb, 2010

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