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.

Car Registration on rise in UK

Soft interest rate regime and discounts offered by manufactures pushed demand in the automobile segment in UK with new car registration in the country witnessing 39 percent rise on year-on-year basis. However, prospective tightening of monetary policy has prompted industry

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  • 11th Jan, 2010

Number Plates as an alternative investment

Investing in car registration plates may seem like an unorthodox way of making money and a considerable statement in the process. Nevertheless, hundreds of investors and drivers now choose to purchase car registration plates with significant future returns available. The

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  • 11th Jan, 2010

Road Safety News

Dr Will Murray and Paul Gallemore outline the key stages and lessons of one company’s efforts to improve its management of occupational road safety. The potential of occupational road-risk management to help reduce harm to humans and assets, generate business

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  • 7th Jan, 2010

Eric Morecambes Cherished Number Rescued!

Eric Morecambe’s 1971 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow has been spared from the scrapheap at the last minute. Peter Yates, who runs a wedding car firm in Morecambe, spotted the car in a Shrewsbury junkyard just 24 hours before it was due

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  • 7th Jan, 2010

Number Plate News, Zimbabwe

Harare — MOTORISTS who fail to change over from old to new vehicle registration number plates introduced by the Government risk having their cars confiscated by the State. According to the new Government regulation, all vehicles displaying the old licence

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  • 7th Jan, 2010

State unveiling ENMU license plate

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division will issue two special license plates this week in recognition of the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell and Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. “This is a great opportunity to

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  • 6th Jan, 2010

Acrylic Number Plates

Acrylic number plates sigify the registration mark of a vehicle. They can be made of different materials, but more commonly seen are metals and acrylics. But as to how the standard specifications on the use, make and display guidelines of

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  • 6th Jan, 2010

Australian Number Plates

To legally drive in Australia you need to have your car fitted with official number plates. The characters on the number plate has to be visible from at least 20 metres away and the number plate has to be permanently

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  • 6th Jan, 2010

Motorists seek pink number plates

Forget traffic making them see red, motorists are seeing pink after 4,300 NSW drivers bought hot pink number plates in support of The McGrath Foundation since April.NSW Premier Kristina Keneally was joined by former Test cricketer Glenn McGrath at the

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  • 6th Jan, 2010

Tips for Driving in Europe

Lots of people like to drive themselves around when visiting Europe and if coming from the UK it is quite easy these days to get there in a matter of hours. If you are considering taking your car abroad then

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  • 6th Jan, 2010