A SUGGESTED SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION INDEXES
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Arl WING to the fact that the number -of possible combine11...../tiens of two-letter motor-index marks is rapidly being exhausted, there has been much talk in recent months of instituting a system of three-letter combinations, to be followed by not more than three figures. To this scheme and to the present method of allocating registration marks there are vttritills objections, amongst which may be named the undesirability of the use of such combinations as ASS, FAT, etc., whilst it is held that figures ere more easy to read and memorize than combinations of letters.
With three figures in each series it would be necessary to employ 10 index marks for every one which is used under the present system, and there would also be 10 identical combinations of figures for every one under the present scheme. Possibly the most serious objection, however, is that, at present—and, apparently, under the three-letter plan the situation would be no better—it is not easy to recognize the district from which any vehicle comes, because there is no definite plan for the allocation of letters. For example, GD is Glasgow and GO London.
' An interesting optional system is -put forward by the Scottish Motor Trade Association, Ltd., details of which we have received from Mr, David A. Fairley;CA., the secretary. In brief, the system involves the use of one letter or a two-letter combination for each county council, borough council, etc., thereby facilitating reference, as all vehicles
bearing th:e index mark A would be London B Lancaster, and so on. After the index mark would follow a _numeral or numerals of a smaller size, indicating the batch of registrations concerned. For example, the first 9,999 registrations under the letter A would not have a smaller additional numeral, the second 9,999 registrations would he denoted by the figure 1 after the letter A, whilst the 75th group of 9,999 registrations would be denoted by A74. If desired, each registration group might be limited to 999 vehicles ; under this scheme it would be possible to register pearly 2,000,000 vehicles per authority—sufficient provision for many years to come.
We illustrate a typical example of a suggested plate. This conforms with existing regulations.