the world of personalised number plates

The world of personalised number plates in the united kingdom is a complicated one. Contrary to public belief the industry was started by private individuals and not the DVLA. Their funstion was to expedite the transfer of registration numbers between vehicles. They drew up the rules of transfer and administered the transfers. The DVLA entered the market 20 years ago and only offer for sale registrations that have never been issued to vehicles. Every year they have about 6 million combinations which are not used in the normal registration of vehicles on the roads so they have quite a stock to choose from.