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Old February 4th 06, 11:41 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Strange bus reg
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:21 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Terry Harper) wrote:

In fact London started on suffixes in 1964, with "B". Middlesex used
"A" suffixes from 1963, together with Staffordshire and certain others
which ran out of reversed registrations in that year.

Middlesex and Staffordshire were the first authorities to use reversed
registrations, with "H" and "E" respectively, in 1953.

True but A suffixes have since been applied for re-registration of all
vehicles from 1957 to 1963. In London application of B suffixes only
started part way through 1964.

As I recall, those that ran out of reversed registrations started on
"B" at that point, and then everybody switched when the "C" year
began.

Some authorities were still on 2-letter forward registrations at that
stage. At least a couple of the Welsh counties were.
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Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org
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