Dating a registration number

[Martin Prior]

The sale of original registrations is sheer vandalism and unfortunately, so-called "Age related" registrations are nothing of the sort. On the face of it, "TSJ" looks like a mid-fifties registration, but it is in reality an unused Isle of Bute (SJ) series. An RP should have a two-letter, four number registration, or a three letter, three number plate on which the first letter would almost certainly be an "A", or just possibly a "B".