Have you spotted that the I, O, Q, U and Z are not included amongst the suffix letters? The 'I' and 'Z' were reserved for Northern Ireland registrations. We presently have 46,145 dateless registrations on our database. The letters in the registration would originally have been able to identify the area of the country in which the registration was issued. They do, however, come with a history attached to them and you can be sure that the reg you're buying will be one of only a small number of similar reg still on the roads.ĭateless reg come in various configurations, either with 1, 2, 3 or 4 digits followed by 1, 2 or 3 letters, or the reverse with 1, 2 or 3 letters followed by 1, 2, 3 or 4 digits. They're often very difficult to come by, simply because vehicles they were originally on will have long since been scrapped. Because these format registrations date back to pre-1963, they're considered the cream of the crop in the number plate world. All of these styles of registration follow the rule that they cannot be assigned to vehicles that were manufactured before their date of issue.īut because dateless registrations have no way to identify their age (hence their name), these registrations can be assigned and displayed on vehicles of any age. Prefix registrations are so called because their initial (prefix) letter identifies the age of a vehicle, suffix registrations because their trailing (suffix) letter identifies the age of the vehicle and the New style reg can identify a vehicle age from the two digit number they contain. With a registration like this it's impossible to tell (without insider knowledge) how old the vehicle displaying it is. When registrations were introduced in 1903, and before the suffix format came into effect in 1963, they had no discernable year identifying letters or digits on them.
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