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I have noted, from time to time, that you have commented about the problems of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems and it seems that you probably feel that they do not work well. A few days...
Very recently in the Daily Telegraph I seem to recall that you answered a letter regarding metal registration plates causing MoT failures? I have just taken delivery of a 1978 Honda CB400F2 (400/4 Supersport),...
As a suggestion could a unique coded chip be incorporated within the number plate that would be read by the camera. It would still mean of course that the car could be cloned if the number plates were...
I have a Lambretta scooter in mint condition, which in 1960 spent its first six months with the North Riding Police and I found out it was based at Pickering and Goathland (Heartbeat Country) before I...
As Communications Manager at Exeter International Airport, I wrote to your reader DC of Brusford concerning his poor experience of APCOA airport parking as follows: “I now have pleasure in offering an...
I have a £500 deposit on one of the very last MK6 Golf GTDs. I wanted to collect it in January 2013 and also asked the dealer for it to be registered then, so it would be a 2013/62 instead of a 2012/62....
New rules come into effect in Nov 2012 ref pre 1960 car MOTs. My wife has a 1954 A30 which belonged to her late mother, but it has not been on the road for many years and has no MOT - and it would cost...
This might be a bit of a strange question, but I've got a friend who wants to buy a new car for delivery early Sept to get the new '62' registration plate, BUT - she lives in Leeds but wants the new car...
Who owns a private number plate after insurance company has deemed the vehicle a write-off in an accident?
I saw a car reg for 2012 two days ago. Just for interest's sake, is this legal?.
 

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