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NUMBER PLATE LOOKUP

Updated: Feb 9, 2021

HISTORY OF MOTORIZED VEHICLE:


The first motorized vehicle was patented in the 1880's in Germany, and the first British four-wheeled petrol-engine motor car was built by Fredrick William Bremer, He is a plumber and gas fitter when he was in the 20's, it was still an incomplete car which made its first run on a public highway in December 1894.


INTRODUCTION OF THE NUMBER PLATE:


The first Number plate ‘A1’ was issued in LONDON, the period of evaluation Number plates contains one or two-letter code, followed by the numbers 1 to 9999.


But today the number plates follow a different set of formats, these differ with each country, In UK the format for number plates changed for each period of time, where the old format sequence ended, in the 90’s UK Automobile Industries boomed and car sales increased.


A situation occurred where the government made some changes in the format of the number plate, that is suffix and prefix number plate. There was also a time when dateless number plates were used, then finally in the month of September 2001.


The government introduced the seven-character format of Number plates. This Seven-character format is enough for providing a unique registration number for vehicles until the year 2050.


The number plates are given by the DVLA, the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), they not only provide registration number for the vehicle, and they also hold more than 49 million Driver Records and more than 40million Vehicle Records.


It is an executive agency under the department of transport. DVLA advise a set of rigid rules, for anyone who doesn’t abide by these rules, a hefty fine of up to £1,000 is charged and that vehicle will also fail its annual MOT.



DVLA devised a new strategy for issuing a number plate twice a year, which means the spring season (March to August) and autumn (September to April) will be considered, the 3rd and 4th characters on the number plate differ with the two seasons.


If the car is registered in the year 2020 March to August, the Number plate’s 3rd and 4th characters will be 2 and 0 and the autumn season registration (September to February) will observe the characters 7 and 0, i.e. year of registration plus 50 (E.g. 20+50= 70).


WHAT ARE THE THINGS ONE CAN KNOW WITH A VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE CHECK?


There are a lot of paid and free websites online to provide the vehicle details using the registration number. Get your vehicle details from one of the best websites CarDotCheck.


They provide free checks, and paid ones, prime and pro check. These options contain different levels of data that can be used to find out about the used vehicle, the details are mentioned below:


The number plate is helpful if the vehicle owner is going to sell, in which case the buyer can easily identify the age of the vehicle using the number plate, the number plate characters also contain the year of registration this is quite helpful for them.

In another case, if the vehicle is involved in an accident or a crime, the car number plate check helps find the vehicle details.

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