Cherished Number Plate
A general term used for vehicle registrations that have a particular meaning or significance to a person – such as Initials, name or word relating to the individual. Other terms used are private plates, personalised number plates and vanity plates, although this is more of an american phrase.
Current Style Number Plate
The registrations start with two letters followed by a two-figure age identifier, a space and then finally three more letters. These are registrations from Sept 2001 to current date.
Dateless registrations
These do not contain any date information. The consist of a number combination followed by a letter combination or vice versa. Many combinations of this type were originally issued before suffix marks began in February 1962. Un-issued dateless combinations are now issued and sold via DVLA Auctions.
Suffix registrations
These end with an age year identifying letter. They start with three letters, then a space, one to three numbers, and end with one letter. e.g AND 123Y. The dates that these marks cover are August 1983 to 31st July 1983.
Prefix Registrations
These start with an age identifier, A – Y (excluding I,O,Q & Z), followed by one to three numbers, then a space and three more letters. e.g A1 PYO. The dates that these marks cover are August 1983 to 31st August 2001.
Vanity Plate
A general term used for vehicle registrations that have a particular meaning or significance to a person – such as your initials. Other terms used are cherished plates, personalised number plates and private plates.
v750
DVLA – Certificate of Entitlement. The legal ownership document for a registration mark. You will need it when you want to apply the registration to a vehicle. The certificate has an expiry date on it but this can be extended for about £25 per year. You can sign the v750 as a buyer only and assign ownership to a different person on another section of the form – this is what you should do for a gift. A registration number on V750 has never been used on a vehicle before.
