Re: CHAT: postcodes

 --- Eamon Graham <robertg@...> wrote: > Roger
Mills wrote:
>
> License tags are formatted thusly: NNNN XX DD where
> NNNN = a four
> digit number (I've seen more, but outside my window
> right now I just
> see 4 digits) XX = two letters and DD = the
> departmental code.  I
> don't know - maybe someone can confirm or deny this
> for me, I don't
> own a car - but the XX seems to have something to do
> with the
> location as well.  I've noticed that here in
> Maine-et-Loire a lot of
> license tags have two letter codes beginning with
> the higher letters
> of the alphabet; XY 49 is very common at the end of
> license tags
> here in Angers.
>
uk licence plates have three forms, which have
superseded each other

first was LLL DDDL where the final letter indicated
the year ( with letters such as o and z missed out for
being too much like 0 and 2 ). all other parts were
done sequentially

second was LDDD LLL with the same provisions and the
first letter indicating the year

now we have LLDD LLL where the first two letters
represent the place of registration, and the digits
representing the half-year ( 01 is 2001, 51 is is
second half of 2001, then 02, 52, 03, 53. i presume
2011 will be 11 and 61, but i'm not clear on this )

but in the uk we like changing things. the london
phone code has had four different forms in the last 15
years : 01, 071/081, 0171/0181, and now 020 ( followed
by 7/8 as part of the number itself ). you can tell
how old a shop sign is by which version of the code it
uses ( and there are a few signs near my work, mostly
on old hotel signs, that still give the area code as a
word : MUSeum 0561 frinstance )

bn ( who's not meant to be on email, but is doing a
last ditch check )

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