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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: AdrianAdrian Date: Jan 31, 2008 05:55
Mortimer ("Mortimer" privacy.net>) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:
> As I understand it, all new number-plates have to use one specific font,
> so the shape of the 4 will be precisely defined. I'm not sure whether
> the font is defined for new/replacement plates that are older than the
> current LL DD LLL format.
All new plates supplied in England & Wales since 2001.
> there is a lot of scope of confusion between upper-case D and O, and
> digit 0 which wasn't present on the oldwhite-on-black plates and
> earlier black-on-yellow or black-on-white plates.
Yes, it was. Essex issued OO letters, and DVLA reserved then sold off
plenty of -ten and -hundred round numbers.
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