12 Series Plates Now online

12 Series Plates Now online, Have Fun!

61 series plates now live

I have just added the latest DVLA 61 series plates, a AB 61GUN! 35,805,844 registrations.

Admin

Regfinder site updates

After a long hiatus (nearly a year!) we've got back to doing some more work on Regfinder.net . Over that period we kept the plate data up to date but paid work commitments mean't nothing else got done.

Looking at our search data and web stats it appears that even though we've not paid much attention to Regfinder for a year, the site visits and number plate searches are around three times what the site got a year ago, and it was quite busy then!

So we're pleased to announce that over coming days/weeks we'll be adding a lot of new features that we hope will make Regfinder a better service. Some of these are:

The new 61 plates (being processed by us at this moment)
New site design (looking good so far)
A cross platform mobile app for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone (iPhone is in beta)
More tools to help dealers and private sellers trade in number plates and widgets so that you can put bits of Regfinder (search etc) on your own web sites.

And a bit of advertising (unfortunately).

If there's anything that you think can be improved on the site then please reply here.

Cheers

Regfinder Admin (not the other bloke).

Bus spotter must pay £11,000

Bus fanatic Steven Curl must pay nearly £11,000 after running up a bill with the DVLA by using his employer’s computers.

Curl, of Haverhill, was sacked by AXA Insurance and prosecuted for fraud by abuse of trust after he used its computers to check on the ownership of buses.

Curl, 45, of Pearmain Walk, was given a five-month suspended jail term in November after admitting the charge.

The bus spotter appeared back at Ipswich Crown Court this week for a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

It heard that over nearly two years he contacted the DVLA 3,000 times, at a cost of £3.75 per number plate inquiry.

He ran up a bill of £10,983 which Mr Recorder Simon Spence has ordered him to pay by July 11. If he fails he will be jailed for seven months.

He must also pay an additional £1,200 towards the cost of the prosecution.





Reg

11 plates withdrawn from sale

Hehehe. Just received this email from the DVLA. Seems they missed a few;

"These '11 number plates have been withdrawn and will no longer be offered for sale."


UF 11 UKA
UF 11 UKR
AC 11 NTS
BC 11 NTS
CC 11 NTS
DC 11 NTS
EC 11 NTS
FC 11 NTS
GC 11 NTS
HC 11 NTS
JC 11 NTS
KC 11 NTS
LC 11 NTS
MC 11 NTS
NC 11 NTS
OC 11 NTS
PC 11 NTS
RC 11 NTS
SC 11 NTS
TC 11 NTS
UC 11 NTS
VC 11 NTS
WC 11 NTS
YC 11 NTS

I'm surprised they didn't spot these earlier.
(They should use Regfinder.net : )





Reg

A great single/single number plate gallery.

I met a man on the Internet. (No wait! That's not how it sounds!)



As regular readers of this blog will probably be aware, interest in number plates - be it professional or hobby - can be a bit of a lonesome affair.

In my relatively short time in the world of vehicle registrations, I have learned that 'indifference' is rarely a word that can be applied to it. People seem - more often than not - to have a deep seated "Clarkson-esque" loathing of the entire subject or, at the opposite end of the scale, a weird kind of snobbery about it.
(Paradox: "Even the most serious personalised number plate fans seem to dislike most personalised number plates").

With this in mind, it's always good to meet 'Number Plate Nerds' who are a bit more positive about their passion.

There are a couple of strings that I follow on the 'Pistonheads Gassing Station' forum.

("Real Good Number Plates (Vol 2)" and "Spotted! Real Rubbish Chav Number Plates". You'll need to register before viewing/commenting on them, I think).

Commentators here, do tend to suffer from a touch of the afore mentioned snobbery at times (I'll have to include myself in that statement if I'm honest, though my snobbery is inverted and so doesn't count) but, if you don't get involved then it's a great source of information and - believe it or not - sometimes even a good laugh!

Single/singles' are never far from the central topic as they are widely regarded as the Holy Grail of UK number plates, being among the very first ever issued, and pictures of these plates are always a welcome addition.

One of the regular contributors to these Pistonheads forum strings has come up with the idea of publishing a picture gallery purely for single/single registrations which is a good thing for two reason. Firstly; it's a great resource (for me, obviously), and secondly; It's something that seems to be agreeable to all commentators. (Which is bloody rare!)

The guys' user name is "Shmee" and his picture gallery is;

"Shmee150's Photostream"

If you have a single/single number plate picture that doesn't appear to be in the gallery then feel free to send it to Shmee at; plategallery@shmee150.co.uk
He's up to 111 'plates at last count and is always keen to add more.



Reg

PS; I've added "Shmee150's Photostream" to the resources box on here for easy of access, in case anyone snaps a plate they want to add at a later date.

The 11 number plate series ready to view

Even the DVLA are excited about this sequence of number plates !



YO11 ARE/ not GO11NG/ TO 11EED/ to be a LO11ERY winner to find six and seven LE11TER word NU11BER PL11TES in this lot!

(The regfinder scan is under way. Watch this space.)


Reg