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Car Number Plates - Number Plate Design

We don't sell private car registration plates, but we are a number plate supplier. We also Design Number Plates for you, so if you need some help Email us with some ideas and what you want to see on your plate and we'll do what we can to help you create the number plate of your dreams.

NEWS

Number plates still confuse it seems:

The new 55 number plate was introduced on the 1st September in the UK, but, according to a survey, three quarters of UK motorists still do not understand how the numbering system works.

The survey, carried out by Post Office car insurance, showed that 45% had no idea what the new number would be.

A further 27% thought the new reg would be 05 – introduced last March – while some respondents believed the first two letters of the number plate represented the car owner's initials!!!

The current system was introduced in September 2001, and car registration plates are now updated twice a year, on March 1 and September 1.

The system of seven letters and numbers is designed to show where and when a car was registered, but it seems has led to a lot of confusion.

THE FACTS

The first letter of the number plate represents the area where the car was registered, and the second relates to a particular DVLA office it was registered through. For example, a car with the letters AB would be from the Anglia region (A) and registered at the Peterborough DVLA office.

The next two numbers represent the date the car is registered. The first shows whether the car is registered in the first or second half of the year – the number 0 is for March-August registrations, and a 5 for those from September to February. The second number shows the year, so a car with a 53 plate was registered in September 2003, and an 04 was registered in March 2004, so it is all quite logical...

The last three letters in the registration are randomly chosen.

A spokesman for Post Office car insurance said: ‘It’s been four years since the current number-plate format was introduced, and still only a quarter of people understand what the letters and numbers mean.

‘With this much confusion, those driving brand new cars in September might not turn as many heads as they’d like.’

This in turn might be the reason so many people are buying their own "Personalised Number Plates". Now we at 4Plates don't sell the registrations, but once you have got one, we can supply you with the actual number plate for your car / vehicle and besides that we can make it really "special" as we offer a whole range of "vanity" plates, including "football" versions..