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Dateless Private Number Plates

You will find  cheap Dateless Number Plates here at Platehunter - You've all heard of dateless fashion where the style can't be attributed to any paticular year, well Dateless Number Plates are simular. Because there is no year letter attached, it would be necessary to consult a reference book to find out when the mark was originally issued. Consequently, dateless plates can be transfered to any age vehicle since the age-related rule will not apply.

Number plates were first issued in 1903. The number of vehicles on the road had started to increase and it had become difficult to trace cars involved if an incident occured. More about number plate history.

The first registration number issued in 1903 was A1.

Early registration numbers did not have a 'year identifier' like they do now. This is why they are refered to a dateless number plate. The UK was divided into regions and letter combinations were allocated to each region. The registrations were simply issued as they were needed. No one had envisaged there would be as many cars on the road as there is today. Areas that were more densely populated ran out of registrations more quickly, as the number of cars increased more letters and numbers were added.

By the early 1960's many areas were running out of letters/number combinations so in 1963 the format of the number plates changed and a 'year identifier' was introduced as the last letter on the number plate, this format became know as the suffix style number plate.