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Age Related Number? DS ---- - Printable Version

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Age Related Number? DS ---- - David Aylmore - 06-04-2023

I am trying to help someone who has inherited a 1928 Chummy which looks as if it was re-registered in 1995. The letter Pre-fix on the plate is DS followed by 4 numbers. Can anyone confirm my thoughts that this is likely to be an Age Related number rather than the original?
Many thanks
David - Devon A7 Club.

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Ray White - 06-04-2023

If it helps, I had a 1926 Dodge Brothers tourer which had been imported from Australia. It has an age related DS number.

I believe these were originally a Paisley area number.

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Mike Costigan - 06-04-2023

The DS prefix series was used for re-issued age-related numbers in the early 1990s.

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - David Aylmore - 06-04-2023

Thanks Ray, that does help to confirm my thoughts.

Thanks Mike

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Hugh Barnes - 06-04-2023

Earlier than that. I think my Chummy was registered in the early 80s... Certainly by 1986 at the latest..

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Peter Sweeney - 06-04-2023

When I joined Hull museums in 1975 the 1898 Panhard was registered as RAT***M Awful. I contacted the licencing office and they supplied a DS number.

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Chris Garner - 06-04-2023

My Chummy acquired its DS 7074 number in October 1993 after the DVLA refused to assign its original number, TP 9906, to the then owner as they maintained it had been " radically altered " in 1985. - It hadn't!

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Steve Jones - 06-04-2023

Yes, DS is age related. We than had SV, then BF but BF ran out towards the end of last year. The new one is WC. What price WC 100!! Wink

They actually started at WC 1001 and are already heading towards WC 1100.

Steve

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - David Stepney - 06-04-2023

BF followed by WC, both of which have potentially pejorative connotations. Does someone in DVLA have a dry sense of humour, or have they been selected by some civil servant with thumb up b*m and mind in neutral?

RE: Age Related Number? DS ---- - Steve Jones - 06-04-2023

No hidden agenda, neither were used in period (their might have been a few BF) so they're available to use now. Don't think that applies to any other pair of letters so much better these than the potential alternative. We should be pleased that they still look to give pre 1931 vehicles two letter/four number registrations.

Steve