21-11-2018, 06:09 PM
(21-11-2018, 01:32 PM)JonE Wrote: Seeing Russell's comment, if you look up some of the images of the Noel Woodall yearbooks on Amazon review listings, he does indeed have great lists of owners of plates and their addresses! I wonder if in 1978 it was viewed as prestigious, but wow... would that information been in the public domain even then?!
I have a couple of Noel Woodall's "Car Numbers" books from the 'sixties and early 'seventies. They appeared when what are now known as "Private Plates" or "Cherished registrations" were starting to catch on and list several hundred, with varying amounts of information. How much of it was done with the owners' consent, I don't know. Carefree days, well before Data Protection!