In article ,
Martin Underwood writes
I didn't know that? So did they use the letter suffix to denote the year?

Initially, yes.

If
so, did it start at the same time as in Great Britain - ie A=1963, B=1964
etc?

Except only London used A.

If so, I presume it went out of sync in the early 80s when IOM used U
and GB used V.

Earlier: MAN xxx T was in use within days of S registrations appearing
in Great Britain.

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