Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

[Deleted member 150136]

Basically it's you have to space characters correctly, be it 111 or 777 or bbb

 

[Darrell]

A mate of mine had HIL 911 on a ‘77 Porsche 911 Targa. Paid about £5000 for the car in the mid noughties.

 

[mmerc]

SAS 22 on a Range Rover in edinburgh about 4 months ago.S4 on an Audi s4 in edinburgh.

 

[bob6600]

On the local ice cream van

I saw another one yesterday, wasn't an ice-cream van from what I remember but it had F51 CES (F5 ICES) and was legally spaced

 

[bob6600]

A mate of mine had HIL 911 on a ‘77 Porsche 911 Targa. Paid about £5000 for the car in the mid noughties.

Was he based in Coventry? I'm sure I used to see that on a regular basis, I think he owned a property across the road from me

 

[Darrell]

Was he based in Coventry? I'm sure I used to see that on a regular basis, I think he owned a property across the road from me

No. From Stanford-Le-Hope in Essex.
He sold it in about 2007.

 

[MissyD]

 

[bob6600]

No. From Stanford-Le-Hope in Essex.
He sold it in about 2007.

Actually, I think it was HUL 911

 

[Ted]

Actually, I think it was HUL 911

I think that is a Porsche owned number (or 911 HUL).

 

[bob6600]

I think that is a Porsche owned number (or 911 HUL).

I give up. It could well have been HIL 911 or probably something completely different lol

 

[John]

I give up. It could well have been HIL 911 or probably something completely different lol

It probably was HIL.

HUL and HIL is the difference between a GB plate and NI plate (respectively).

I used to know a guy with HIL #### (memorable numbers then!) on his Astra GTE 16V when I had one around the same time in the mid 90s.

That would also have been an NI plate.

 

[Darrell]

It probably was HIL.

Why? It could’ve been HUL.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

There are special conditions relating to the spacing of characters if next to a ‘1’.

There are no special conditions to the spacing of characters next to a 1.
I did own IIW 181 for about 20 years, on every car spaced IIW I8I as normal .

 

[Mactech]

There are no special conditions to the spacing of characters next to a 1.
I did own IIW 181 for about 20 years, on every car spaced IIW I8I as normal .

Yes, correct. but the '1's do take up less linear space than any other number.
As here on my wife's Defender 'Vera'. I bought the the plate for her 41st birthday. She still is not as old as the plate may indicate, but just like the '1's we are still close......

 

[Alfie]

Google found nothing.

Then search the government website!

 

[Alfie]

There are no special conditions to the spacing of characters next to a 1.
I did own IIW 181 for about 20 years, on every car spaced IIW I8I as normal .

Yes there are. It relates to the spacing of the 1 adjacent to other characters. Leaflet INF104 states the size of a ‘1’ need not be 50mm whereas all other characters must be. This allows a ‘1’ to be closer to an adjacent character in appearance.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Yes there are. It relates to the spacing of the 1 adjacent to other characters. Leaflet INF104 states the size of a ‘1’ need not be 50mm whereas all other characters must be. This allows a ‘1’ to be closer to an adjacent character in appearance.

I think a 50mm "1" would look out of place.The spacing rules are still the same for "1" and "I"

 

[andyR43]

An I and a 1 dont need to be 50mm wide (bit obvious as to why) but the spacings are as for any other letter/number.

 

[andyR43]

As can be seen with my GTR the spacings between the 1's are exactly the same as the spacings between the letters. The only difference is that visually the 1's 'appear' to be spaced closer.

 

[Mactech]

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This fails the spacing rules on two counts. The '1' and '3' are less than the required 11mm. The numbers and letters are less than the required 33mm.