Number Plates
In the United Kingdom, number plates are issued by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency ( DVLA ). They do not approve personalised registrations if they contain words which are offensive in any widely used language. The DVLA however lately have released more and more previously banned combinations such as SEX and DAM. UK plates have to match certain very strict letter/number combinations - see Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom .
Registrations can be sold, or transferred from one vehicle to another, with some restrictions. Originally the only vanity plates allowed to be transferred were ordinary registrations that had been transferred, but in the 1990s the DVLA began selling personalised registrations unrelated to the registration districts.The trade of number plates was started by private dealers, entrepreneurs who saw an opportunity to sell something in demand.
There is some additional flexibility available by using numbers that resemble letters (e.g.,5 = S,, 8 = B,, 4 = A), or by using large black-headed screws to fix the plate to the car to fill in a gap. However, the font style, size, and spacing is mandated by law, making the practice illegal.
Some plates only acquire significance because of particular owners. For example, "COM 1C" was formerly owned by the comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, magician Paul Daniels had "MAG 1C", the 1967 plate "BEL 12E" is owned by the Belize High Commission, and "1 AFG" is owned by the Afghan embassy.
In the UK, there are a large number of private dealers who act as agents selling DVLA registrations , as well as their own stock - often purchased at number plate auctions or from private sellers.
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