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DVLA Personalised Number Plates


What exactly are DVLA Personalised Number Plates?

Over the years many DVLA Personalised Number Plates have been kept back by the DVLA (formerly DVLC). This was because there was no fair way to allocate them prior to the Act of Parliament which allowed the DVLC to become an agency and sell off the retained number plates as government assets.

The first type of DVLA Personalised Number Plates

The Sale of Marks department was formed and given the task of organising the staged release of the prefix marks beginning with the "H" prefix. This release was on a "first come, first served" basis over the telephone. Some of these DVLA personalised number plates are now worth quite a lot of money for example the H1's - imagine H1 SUE; H1 BOB; H1 JMC etc. The 'H' prefix range was followed by the 'A' prefixes (again there are "classics" among this range of DVLA personalised number plates as well).

DVLA Personalised number plates - What happened later?

The early prefix marks up to 'J' reg only allowed for the numbers 1-20 but later ranges included higher attractive numbers such as 21, 22, 33, 100, 200, 111, 999 etc.

The successive releases of these DVLA personalised number plates has resulted in a massive influx into the market thus making the owning of a private plate accessible to a lot more people due to the wide range of choice and price available.

To assist people to join in the game of personalised number plates, we decided to offer 0% finance on most of our 30 million plates. We believe we are the only Cherished Number plate dealer to do this.

So, now the important task for you is to click onto number plates clever search where you can take full advantage of our clever search facilities like vehicle makes and models, sports registrations, BIG registration as well as your initials, name etc. Go for it!

We at National Numbers have been successfully transferring DVLA personalised number plates for more than a quarter of a century. Since 1997 we have actually held the British Standard Institute's quality award. We have an annual external audit by the BSI inspector to test the efficiency of our admin system set up to deal with all the regulations associated with DVLA personalised number plates.

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You can design your own number plates on our web site. Decide whether you want traditional prefix style plates or the more recent newstyle - the choice is yours.