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OK - Here's one (Of many)......Knocked off my motorcycle CAM 567V.......Taken to hospital, ambulance reg. no. CAM 568V. Beat that.
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Whoops coincidences.......
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My old company Pug 306 was R411 MVC and registered in Birmingham.
I live in Edinburgh and overtook another, non company related, 306 registered R412 MVC in the Borders one day.
Does that count ?
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Sold an old James Captain motorcycle in 1964 with the number CBB 47, 11 years later in 1975 the same number passed me in the same area (north east) attached to a Vauxhall Astra GT.
Giving my age away now :-0
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My Mum had a Xantia with L719 WDL, then 2 years later my Dad bought an AX from another garage with L919 WDL.
My sister used to have E843 DEO, and I used to pass E842 DEO on the way to work everyday.
It's remarkable how these occur, given the sheer number of VRMs issued!
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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I had a Panther 420 BJO (I see it's still going according to DVLC), then saw BJO 420C on an Imp!
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Sold an old James Captain motorcycle in 1964 with the number CBB 47 11 years later in 1975 the same number passed me in the same area (north east) attached to a Vauxhall Astra GT.
That's remarkable - given that Vauxhall didn't introduce the Astra until 1979!
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That's remarkable - given that Vauxhall didn't introduce the Astra until 1979!
Then it may have been later or I may have the car wrong, it was after all about 30 years ago !.
Must remember to add approx and IIRC to my posts in future !.
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Please will someone tell me what IIRC stands for? I can't stand it any more.......
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In response to Boggy:
tinyurl.com/2la4nm
Clk Sec
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>> tinyurl.com/2la4nm Clk Sec
And it is the first of those results that is normally used on this forum. :-)
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motorcycle CAM 567V.......Taken to hospital ambulance reg. no. CAM 568V. Beat that.
A number plate check shows both vehicles to be Honda motorcycles registered in 1980!
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These health authorities will do anything to save a few quid. Something fishy here - used to see this ambulance regularly - avoided it at all costs!
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I parked N833 FLG next to N834 FLG, in Kingston.
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My other half yelled out excitedly a while back whilst watching Eastenders - one of the cars in the garage business had a registration with a number not a million miles from my own V reg.
Seeing as my car was first registered in Glasgow and the soap is set in the capital, quite a surprise.
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Not quite the same, but years ago my sister in Edinbrgh sold her Talbot Samba (Yellow) in a private sale - poss A45PYS?
A couple of years later she moved to Porthcawl in Wales and the car appeared in her next door neighbour's driveway!
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many years ago, 30ish, two of my paperround customers, had consecutive numbered plates on their adjoinging drives, I went to school with both the kids and they seriously disliked each other, and hated having the point of their parents having identical cars being bought up.
Today on the m1 saw one of the best plates seen for ages, we51ham, the owner must have done a lot of research to manage to obtain it - is it easy to select such a number
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Set off from home with the wife driving. 200 yards away, we ended up behind my Omega as it pulled out of a side turning. "#####!" I said, "Someone's nicked my car!"
Then the wife pointed out that its reg was T755ENV, not T775ENV. And that we were in my Omega. What a plank.
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Oh, and that it was blue, not black.
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My first car was a fiesta who's reg ended in DHG. My second car was an Audi who's reg also ended in DHG!
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First car was a grey Renault 19 TXE, G967BPE. I bought it and almost immediately noticed that my neighbour had an identical one down to the colour, engine, optional alloy wheels, and supplying dealer - G138CPE.
Sold the Renault, two years later and living 180 miles away, I saw a grey Renault 25 TXE registration G957BPE.
A year or two after that, giving a colleague a lift home, I saw G957BPE parked in a street in her driveway.
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I parked N833 FLG next to N834 FLG in Kingston.
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Ah, the 1996 Ford Fiesta LX with the 1.3 engine, I have fond memories!
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afriend of mine had an accident, when they exchanged names, they were both JOHN ASHTON
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My dad's first brand new car was a white Austin Maxi (yes I know!!) - reg MDM633L. When we took it in to the dealer for it's first service we were quite surprised to see another white Maxi there - also with the registration MDM633L - not sure who was most embarrassed, the garage for cocking up the number plates or the owner of the other vehicle for not realising that their reg no didn't match the paperwork (or tax disc).
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My father drove around for quite some time in a Singer Vogue with 400 CUB on the front and CUB 400 on the back before he noticed.
And that was a long time ago :-).
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I,at one time,had two cars and a m/c all with 917 as the number part of the plate;not bought consciously-pure co-incidence.
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JYX 472W was my company car 25 years ago - a week after getting it new I stopped at traffic lihts and the car opposite was another Ford JYX 473W - it makes you think as the cars were registered in the London area and this was Aberdeen.
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many years ago as a kid i pointed out to my amazed uncle that the number plates on the front and back of his motorbike were one digit different, this would have been just before front plates on bikes went out, he had been riding the bike from new for 6 months without noticing, he took it back to dealer for a new plate
one of my old bosses was given a company car reg ???? NOB and one of his mates immediately said "didnt know you were getting a personalised plate" which of course it wasnt, oh how we laughed
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In the early 1970's, in a village south of Cambridge, a couple woned identical Van Dem Plas Princess 1300's (ran a local antique business) registrations were 'HIS 1" and "HER 1"...very twee!
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>>...registrations were 'HIS 1" and "HER 1"...
Hate to be pedantic (well, sometimes!) but this seems unlikely. AFAIK, 'I' was never used in mainland UK plates, and I think the Northern Irish ones it did appear in all had four digits to distinguish them from mainland plates. I'm sure someone can correct me if necessary.
I suppose H 151 would be a legitimate plate, but I'm sure such solid citizens would be above anything so tacky as mis-spacing, even if anyone had thought of it back then.
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Obviously I am either guilty of fantasizing or simply a liar...seem to also recall that Jimmy Tarbuck had COMIC on his Rolls Royce....perhaps he was mistaken aswell!
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urrrr no - COM 1 C - seems ok to me
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I returned from Germany in 1978 with a 1974 Humber Sceptre and went to register it in Hull. Due to a certain amount of confusion I ended up with a 1978 number plate BAG ???T. The office staff then discovered that the Sceptre had originally been registered in London during 1974 and had an M plate. Documents/paperwork corrected and of I went. BAG ???T ended up on Talbot which in turn ended up in Elgin about 10 minutes from where I worked and I used to see it most days from 1979 til 1982.
Of number sequences, I bought a Volvo 240 D738 PMW, a batch of Volvos must have been registered by that day because for years in town I was forever seeing a very close number.
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Of number sequences I bought a Volvo 240 D738 PMW a batch of Volvos must have been registered by that day because for years in town I was forever seeing a very close number.
Seems to be a lot of N, S and T reg FiAT bravo/as and mareas in the South yorkshire area with the area code ending in HU or HW. Looking up that dode means they were registered in Bristol
Strange
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...that the number plates on the front and back of ..... were one digit different this
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One of our contractors found the same thing after having had a company car for many months.
When he mentioned it to another colleague who had obtained a new company car at the same ....he also discovered a similar situation. IIRC a swop of plates between them sorted it out.
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Taken to hospital ambulance reg. no. CAM 568V. Beat that.
Was this fairly recently? If so, (besides someone already mentioning that this number plate being registered to a motorbike) I can't see the ambulance service running a 27 year old vehicle either.
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We used to have an emerald green Xantia Activa - a fairly rare car - reg N816WMO. In barnes one day (although not whilst driving said car) I saw another emerald green Xantia Activa - reg N817WMO.
I believe ours was first registered by Citroen UK in Slough, and can only assume this other one was too.
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many moons ago I had a pale blue MK1 1.6 GXL Capri. I was parked in Waverly Station in the days when you could park next to the platform; on returning to the car I opened the door and got in and was just about to drive off when a guy opened the door and started giving me loads of abuse. Turns out my car was a few spaces further down; his was identical apart from one digit different on the reg. note: my key opened his door and started the engine - they don't make Fords like that anymore! ( or do they....?)
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Noel Edmonds seems to have had a number plate co-incidence
tinyurl.com/yuaazd Link to www.thisislondon.co.uk/ shortened - DD
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nice trick to drive on french plates in the uk, kinda avoids the speed cameras nicely doesnt it
no doubt he has a swiss licence to avoid any police who want to take him to court
sad that the british system leads to people doing this
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Yes, it was recently. 1984, I think.
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When I was a student I did a days' casual holiday work driving a brand-new Bedford Marsden pantechnicon for a removals firm in Loughborough called Bewley and Sheppens (I was a mature student and had HGV licence!). I remember the main job that day was to deliver a consignment of Barbie bathroom sets to a warehouse in Hinckley. The regular driver was off and the pantechnicon was, I think, on its first day of actual work.
Many years later, while commuting from to work in Bath along the A36, I saw the same vehicle - somewhat more aged looking but still in the same livery and in reasonable shape.
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"pantechnicon"
What a beautifully British word and used in context even better. You've made my evening.
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Not really a conincedence but would like you number plate searches to find if my perfect number plate is available?
It is ORR 106E for ORRIDGE
Good eh!
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I was at work a couple of years ago chatting to my mum on the phone. I glanced across the road through the window and saw a white VW Polo crash into some railings while being chased by a panda car. The number plate looked vaguely familiar - my mum had a white Polo at the time. I asked her to tell me her registration number and it matched with the crashed car. Her's was still in the driveway 20 miles away.
It transpired that her car had been cloned. It was a bit spooky that it crashed in front of me though...........
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>>>"pantechnicon"
What a beautifully British word and used in context even better. You've made my evening.<<<
I think it's probably an ancient Greek word!!!!!
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"Pantechnicon is an old British word for a furniture removal van. It was originally coined in 1830 as the name of a craft shop or bazaar, in Motcomb Street in Belgravia, London; the name is Greek for "pertaining to all the arts or crafts". The shop soon closed down and the building was turned into a furniture warehouse, but the name was kept. Vehicles transporting furniture to and from the building, known as pantechnicon vans, soon came to be known simply as pantechnicons."
According to Wikepedia we're both right !
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As i understand it the word pantechnicon pertains to the bit that is lower than the actual vehicle, so as you walk in to the back it is on a lower level and therefore easier to get in and out of.
New word for today?
Double draw bar trailer
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One of the vehicles [ a Police van I think ] in The Bill has a registration in the same sequence as my car!
Here in in Epsom a few years ago most of the B...BGK series, registered locally, stayed in the area; my mum had B939BGK secondhand and within a year we had spotted about 50 other registrations in the same series.
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"When I was a student I did a days' casual holiday work driving a brand-new Bedford Marsden pantechnicon for a removals firm in Loughborough called Bewley and Sheppens"
Forget the pantechnicon lark, my next door neighbour but one used to be (quite a few years ago) Martin Scheppens of that firm - and a very nice chap and a very fine batsman in local cricket (think he also played a few games for Leics?) he was too!
Also, I once pulled up at the traffic lights at junction of A6 and Shelthorpe Road (Sofa Spud will know where that is!!) behind car reg A25 FCH - I was in A26 FCH.
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If only I had known then what I know now!
I owned 631MMM and MMM631, both on Morris minors, at the same time in about 1968.
Those were the days when RUM1 was sold by a friend of mine for the sum of £300 IIRC.
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Here in in Epsom a few years ago most of the B...BGK series registered locally stayed in the area; my mum had B939BGK secondhand and within a year we had spotted about 50 other registrations in the same series.
My old Yamaha was T228 BGK. BPF is also common round here...
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This is a weird one, and totally true. Years ago, I was driving my car to london. It had a private plate on it, I am not sure but i think it was 880 MAD, or some-thing similar, as i got into london i passed a car showroom, and there was a car parked outside with the same plate.......
After going another mile or so, i did a u turn and went back to the place where i so the car with the same plate.....Vanished off the face of the earth. P.S. My eyesight was totally perfect then...
Not now though! Cheers, Graham.
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My parents have had XVN nnn since 1961, they have a series of photographs of their car parked beside various others with XVN nnn? - same numbers but with the postfix.
Years ago we has a Fiesta RVN291X my father had a Honda 90 motorbike RVN 921X.
I had a Company car (Passat) S211KBD and followed a similar Passat for a few miles - S212KBD.
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The night before my father's funeral I picked up my sister from the station. I pulled in about 500 yards from our destinination to talk about the previous weeks awful events. As I started the car up again I saw that the car parked in front of us was plated Y*** DAD.
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