Category: World Number Plate News

In this blog category we focus on world number plate news, this focuses not only on private plates in the UK but all across the world, looking at the different rules and regulations in force in those countries as well as the different letter and number styles that are used.

Auction Number Plate Hits New High

This monsoon, its raining money at the Regional Transport Office (RTO) here. In just a day, the RTO has earned around Rs 50 lakh by auctioning registration numbers. The highest bid of all was Rs 2,42,999 for the registration number

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  • 21st Jul, 2011

Social Mobility In Cherished Numbers

It was reported last week that Public Relations and Public Affairs Minister Dr Mervyn Silva had written to the Inspector General of Police regarding the use by his staff of garage number plates. Apparently President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ordered him

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  • 18th Jul, 2011

Number Plate Interest Rises

THREE times more people in the Isle of Man are interested in cherished car number plates than the economy, according to statistics released yesterday by government. The figures have been released by the Department of Economic Development in response to

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  • 14th Jul, 2011

Numberplate Police Are Not The ‘Boss’

The numberplate of his Honda City read ‘BOSS’ till somebody clicked a picture and uploaded it on the Facebook page of Delhi Traffic Police. The traffic police have slapped a challan on the owner of the vehicle, confiscated his driving

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  • 13th Jul, 2011

Number Plate Security Issues

A  consultant to Niger State Board of Internal Revenue Service  on Vehicle and Motorcycle Number Plates, Alhaji Musa Ahmed, has said  that the shortage of vehicle and motorcycle number plates at the Lagos factory of the Federal Roads Safety Corps

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  • 11th Jul, 2011

DVLA Bans Numberplate As Obscene

A man from Chesterfield was ordered to remove a naughty number plate by the DVLA, even though he bought it from their website. Alan Clarke, 49, paid £399 for the plate ‘BO11 LUX’ and fitted it to his new Range

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  • 4th Jul, 2011

Dubai Auction Plate

An unique motor vehicle number plate in Dubai has been sold for a whopping USD 408,391 at an auction here. The sale, which was the agency’s 72nd, attracted the highest bid, with the licence plate K 50, emirates? Roads and

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  • 22nd Jun, 2011

Rugby Cherished Number Plates Gain Value

Entrepreneurs who bought Rugby World Cup-themed number plates at least three years ago are selling them for big profits – but could face action from tournament bosses. Christchurch mother Carmen Burleigh said her partner Warrick Tuffnell bought the plate RWC

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  • 20th Jun, 2011

Free Number Plate Tamper Proof Screws

FREE tamper-proof number plate screws will be offered to Hertsmere residents at Tesco in Potters Bar this Saturday. From 10am to 2pm in Mutton Lane, members of the Hertsmere Community Safety Partnership will help fit the screws to cars in

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  • 20th Jun, 2011