Odd Reg no.

Honest John Back Room » Motoring discussion
View Threaded
Fri 29 Aug 2008 13:58
Odd Reg no. - ijws15
Saw a Ka on the M5 this morning - Registration O35. Definitely not 03S.

Did not think O was used. Being driven by a lady and was a basic KA.

Is this a legal number?
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 13:59
Odd Reg no. - Alanovich
Could it be from Guernsey?
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 14:03
Odd Reg no. - ijws15
No GBG plate.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 14:46
Odd Reg no. - Sofa Spud
O 35 looks like a very early British registration, the O being a letter rather than a number. I used to see R 8 around here on a fairly recent hatchback. A reg number that dates back to the dawn or motoring in UK.

OO was definitely used as a reg mark, for Essex, I think.

Edited by Sofa Spud on 29/08/2008 at 14:48

Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 14:59
Odd Reg no. - Alanovich
OO was definitely used as a reg mark for Essex I think.

Yep, that continued as an identifier up to the Y prefix. Still a fair few POOs and LOOs knocking around that way, mostly Fords of course, to keep the children entertained when we go to the wild East to visit friends.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 15:07
Odd Reg no. - Dipstick
The Askmid website doesn't recognise that or any variant of it I can think of, so it's not apparently insured at any rate.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 18:25
Odd Reg no. - Sofa Spud
Reminds me that I was following a car recently with an unfamiliar looking foreign number plate that was just a letter and three numbers.

As I got closer I read the international plate - 'AND' - Andorra. No wonder I hadn't seen one before!
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 18:30
Odd Reg no. - Andrew-T
The original O 35 would have been a Birmingham number, before WW1 I should guess.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 29 Aug 2008 22:00
Odd Reg no. - Sandgrown
O was the original Birmingham mark, so O 35 would have been the 35th Birmingham registration. Probably originally issued to an existing vehicle when registrations were introduced in 1903.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link