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Glad this turned out to be useful
Fortunately someone else did the heavy lifting - I bought the fruits of their efforts on a CDR.
For UK plates after 1963, things are much easier to disentangle, with systems many of you will already know. But just in case, there's a handy list here of dates and letters for suffix plates (1963-82) and prefix plates (1983-2001). To note that there was some overlap 1963-65 with the older plate systems before the suffix plate completely replaced everything.
And of course there's the perennial problem of invented combinations for screen plates. Glass's never issued any further big guides, so the only way of exposing screen fakes is checking with their small guides issued annually, each of which covers preceding 8-10 years. There's a few samples illustrated at the bottom of the page here. The last one I've seen was issued in 2000; Glass's stopped publishing all of their ranges of trade identification books in 2010.
Have also discovered that Les Newall, author of jfs bible, died in 2000, so it's unlikely there will be any further versions. However his son supported a 2019 sequel covering the first 11 years of suffix plates "Motor Vehicle Registration Numbers of Great Britain 1963-1974" by Jonathan Del Mar - I've just got a copy, but not sure yet how useful it will be, simply because most of the data is available elsewhere, rather than as a criticism.
Thanks dsl for scanning 201 pages!
Fortunately someone else did the heavy lifting - I bought the fruits of their efforts on a CDR.
For UK plates after 1963, things are much easier to disentangle, with systems many of you will already know. But just in case, there's a handy list here of dates and letters for suffix plates (1963-82) and prefix plates (1983-2001). To note that there was some overlap 1963-65 with the older plate systems before the suffix plate completely replaced everything.
And of course there's the perennial problem of invented combinations for screen plates. Glass's never issued any further big guides, so the only way of exposing screen fakes is checking with their small guides issued annually, each of which covers preceding 8-10 years. There's a few samples illustrated at the bottom of the page here. The last one I've seen was issued in 2000; Glass's stopped publishing all of their ranges of trade identification books in 2010.
Have also discovered that Les Newall, author of jfs bible, died in 2000, so it's unlikely there will be any further versions. However his son supported a 2019 sequel covering the first 11 years of suffix plates "Motor Vehicle Registration Numbers of Great Britain 1963-1974" by Jonathan Del Mar - I've just got a copy, but not sure yet how useful it will be, simply because most of the data is available elsewhere, rather than as a criticism.