Ok, so now i'm confused only reading this is why I thought that the AC was Coventry:
What about old number plate area codes?
Since our new number plate system has only been around since 2001, it’s not uncommon to see older cars with ‘prefix’ number plates.
These types of plate are a one letter, one-to-three number, then three letter format – like ‘
A123 ABC’, for example. In this type of plate, the first letter indicated the car’s registration year – and the final two letters acted as the area code; in this case,
BC.
Before these prefix plates came ‘suffix’ plates – which used the same format but backwards. An example of a suffix plate would be ‘
ABC 123A’. Here, the final letter indicates the registration year of the car, and the second and third letter indicate the registration region; again, in this case,
BC.
The same area codes were used for prefix and suffix plates – so the following chart will help you identify the original location a registration mark comes from. There are a lot of them – so we’ve sorted them into alphabetical order so you can quickly sort through them:
A
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A
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London
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AA
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Bournemouth
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AB
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Worcester
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AC
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Coventry |
