The personalized auto plates in the UK are just contractions or expansions
of the standard alpha numerics. At lot of years I saw " ERNIE" running
around to the west of Edinburgh. This is just a contraction of ERN 1E which
was a regular plate issued in 1966 or thereabouts. I believe the plate was
owned by Ernie Wise, the tv comedian.
An example of truly personalized plate is " IPASGAS" which I saw in Calgary,
Alberta years ago ............ believed to be owned by someone in the
natural gas industry. Another example is " GR8MUM" which my wife has had for
years ............... a play on "great Mum" ................ and was a
birthday or Mothers' Day present from our children.
The shortest personalized plate I have seen is the letter " X " on an
Alberta plate dating back to the mid early 1990s.
In point of fact, the UK does not have personalized plates, just a tolerance
for having licence plate manufacturers issuing plates with contractions or
expansions, but not re-arrangements, of state issued alpha-numeric
registration characters.
If this is not the case, tell me which registration authority can issue
GR8MUM or IPASGAS or X in the UK ?
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walters, Martin" <Martin.Walters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] That G-RUVY aeroplane
> John:
> There are indeed personalized number plates in the UK - have been for
> many, many years.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hudson [mailto:OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:27 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] That G-RUVY aeroplane
>
> So, ................. there are no personalized auto licence plates in
> the UK but there are personalized aeroplane registrations! Now, there, I
> have learned something new today. I had no idea that one could order
> personalized aeroplates in the UK! I'm surprised that the governing
> socialists have not deprived the upper classes of this mark of
> privilege!
>
> Mind you the owner's registered address suggests that he can well afford
> the luxury. Looks to be as selective as Salisbury Close or Ramsay Garden
> :-)
>
> How about G-nOMe ? OM being the genetic material of this list.
>
> jh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Olympus Camera Discussion'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] That G-RUVY aeroplane
>
>
>> Think again, John, the UK Register has entries from G-AAAA to G-ZZZZ
>> (though
>> both of those aircraft have been de-registered, as it happens), and
> you
>> can
>> choose an out-of-sequence combination, as did the owner of G-RUVY as
> shown
>> here:-
>>
>> http://TinyURL.com/68fzvy otherwise known as:-
>>
>>
> http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=
> deta
>> ilnosummary&fullregmark=RUVY
>>
>> I can't think of an Olympus-relevant five letter word beginning G....
>>
>> --
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Hudson [mailto:OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 09 December 2008 16:39
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: [OM] That G-RUVY aeroplane
>>
>> If you really magnify the image of that RV-9 single engined aeroplane
>> whose
>> URL someone included in a recent list message I get the felling that
> the
>> G-RUVY registration letters take on the impression of being a very
>> carefull
>> and very well done masking, selection and layering operation in
> Photoshop
>> !
>>
>> I cannot imagine that any aeroplane registration clerk could have such
> a
>> Mindbending sense of humour to put a smile on the plane's owner's face
> :-)
>>
>> jh
>>
>>
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