"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
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I know the situation in Yorkshire better than Anglia: at one time UA, UB,
UM
were Leeds, YG was Bradford, CX was Huddersfield and HL was Wakefield.
These
were merged so that all these letters signified "somewhere in West
Yorkshire". I think the size of the region covered was further increased
with the new-style AA05 BBB numberplates. I'm not sure why they even
bothered to use new letters: the A123 BCD format had a two-letter
location
code (CD) so why not continue to use the same code in the new-style
numberplates? Methinks that they took the opportunity to rationalise
(merge)
some of the issuing offices at the same time.

The 1966 vehicle registrations letters can be found on my web site, in a
link from http://www.btinternet.com/~terry.harper/gallery.htm at the
bottom
of the page. There were earlier lists which used to appear in each year's
AA
handbook. Back when H and HX and lots of Mx combinations were Middlesex,
for
example.

Gosh, I'd forgotten that single letters could also be used to denote the
place. Mind you, the whole subject of pre-1963 number plates and the variety
of forms that were used over the years has got me baffled. Interesting to
see that the code included the Republic of Ireland at that time, before the
modern 05-D-12345 or 03-WX-12345 format came into being, the letter/letters
denoting the county - Dublin and Wexford in my example.

Why do modern diaries not carry this list: it used to be in the front of
every pocket diary at one time.