To be fair it almost certainly doesn't report back on the actual
registration but the approximate date a block of numbers was available for
use and where. My 72 built but June 73 registered roadster comes back as
'issued in 1972'. My 75 V8 comes back with the correct date but 'issued in
Perth' which was the normal place for issuing 'MGS' registrations, but the
car was registered in Bedfordshire. Also by 1974 the practice of changing
the letter in August and not 1st January was well established, so a letter
could be issued in one of two years and still be correct, or to put it
another way, a year has two letters.
PaulH
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Matthews <simon_atwork@hotmail.com>
To: <HowerSL@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: UK Number plates
> This web site (www.newreg.co.uk) does not report accurately. I tried my
old
> MGB plates and it gave the year of issue as 1974. While this is the
correct
> year for that letter, it does not take into account registrations of
> imported cars, where a backdated number plate is issued.
>
> In my case, the car (a '74 MGB) was imported from Texas (by me) in 1993
and
> registered in that year. It was issued a registration that would be
> appropriate for 1974.
>
> Simon
>
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