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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Sept 8, 2018 19:50:41 GMT
But my point is why not 1 Jan to 31 June and 1 July to 31 December? The dates are arranged to suit the big car manufacturers and dealerships and to stimulate sales. When age identifiers were introduced in 1963 the year ran from 1st January to 31st December. For the first couple of years age-identifying suffixes were only issued by Vehicle Registration Offices that had exhausted their supply of six-figure marks and it was only during 1965 that all new vehicle registrations incorporated an age identifier. Following lobbying from the motor industry, the changeover date was moved to 1st August with effect from 1st August 1967. The switch from suffix letters to prefix letters occurred in August 1983. In the autumn of 1999 the system was changed again; from 1st September 1999 to 31st August 2001 the prefix letter changed on 1st September and 1st March each year. The current registration format was introduced on 1st September 2001 and the same changeover dates for the now-numeric age identifier were retained. BTW June only has 30 days not 31 Regarding your final comment, as an aside I wish leap years would give us the extra day in June instead of February. Then we could have the extra day in summer instead of winter.
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Post by rj131 on Sept 8, 2018 20:29:53 GMT
But my point is why not 1 Jan to 31 June and 1 July to 31 December? Ireland do divide the year into 2 halves according to the calendar. New vehicles in either half of this year would have 181 or 182 reg's respectively. Intriguingly, had we in Britain had Irish-style reg's, route 181 would have gained new 181-reg buses! Like how the old 13 received 13-reg buses, AND around half of those bearing the garage’s name too
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Sept 8, 2018 20:57:05 GMT
Ireland do divide the year into 2 halves according to the calendar. New vehicles in either half of this year would have 181 or 182 reg's respectively. Intriguingly, had we in Britain had Irish-style reg's, route 181 would have gained new 181-reg buses! Like how the old 13 received 13-reg buses, AND around half of those bearing the garage’s name too I think it was 2013 when Ireland introduced this new system. So, they had 12 reg's, then 131 then 132 reg's etc
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Post by snowman on Sept 9, 2018 16:10:40 GMT
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Post by vjaska on Sept 10, 2018 0:51:21 GMT
Ironically, I saw my first 68 reg bus in Glasgow yesterday as I was heading to the train station - a 68 reg McGills minibus.
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Post by snowman on Sept 14, 2018 12:03:42 GMT
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Post by wirewiper on Sept 15, 2018 11:29:32 GMT
CT Plus 1286, 1288, 1290, 1291 and 1294 were all used on route W13 on either or both of Thursday 13th and Friday 14th September. The D6 has a full allocation of 68-registered buses today (Saturday 15th September).
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Sept 15, 2018 11:34:44 GMT
Having seen a photo of the 4 Solo SRs delivered to Metroline so far, I am pleased they all have 68-reg's.
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Post by snowman on Nov 1, 2018 8:54:21 GMT
Although we are now 2 months into the 68reg at least 15 18reg buses still haven't entered service
Metroline has 4 VMHs and 6 BELs RATP has 4 BEs Go Ahead has TA1
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Post by rj131 on Nov 1, 2018 10:19:01 GMT
Although we are now 2 months into the 68reg at least 15 18reg buses still haven't entered service Metroline has 4 VMHs and 6 BELs RATP has 4 BEs Go Ahead has TA1 I think the bus holding the current record for a holding the previous reg mark and not entering service is VWH2287, its a 17-reg and didnt enter service until the 24th January THIS YEAR! only just over a month before the *next* reg mark came out
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