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British car number plate identifiers are letters used to pinpoint where a car has been registered in Great Britain. They have been used on British vehicle number plates since 2001. A separate (and older) system is used in Northern Ireland. Image File history File links Mergefrom. ... Since 1979 cars operated by foreign embassies, consular staff, and various international organisations have been given plates with a distinguishing format of three numbers, one letter, three numbers. ... British car number plates are vehicle registration plates (more commonly known as number plates) which have existed in the United Kingdom since 1904. ... British car number plates are vehicle registration plates (more commonly known as number plates) which have existed in the United Kingdom since 1904. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...

In the usual number plate format AB 01 CDE, the first two letters are broken down into a regional letter (given a somewhat loose mnemonic) followed by a more specific letter, with particular letter ranges pinpointing a particular DVLA office. For example, a registration beginning with GK will have been registered with the Maidstone office in Kent. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (the DVLA) is an agency of the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Maidstone (disambiguation). ... The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ...

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See also

• UK topics
• British car number plates for overall UK systems including older identification system

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References

• Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. Full list of local memory tags from September 2001. Archived from the original on 2005-02-12. Retrieved on 2006-08-11.

1. ^ 'Offensive' SN07 car plate banned (will affect only what were to become SN07 plates; will revert back to SN57 thereafter), BBC News Online, 13 July 2007

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Further reading

• Where's that vehicle come from?, site with details of identifiers for vehicles before 2001.