Private Number Plates and Stirling Moss - For Free!

Whoo-hoo! Only about a week to go before the new issue of our great free magazine Regtransfers.co.uk: The World of Personal Number Plates hits the streets.

Despite the rather poor image on the right (my fault, I was in such a rush to get the news out that it was the best relevant pic I could find at short notice), the mag is a fantastic, glossy, professional, 84-page extravaganza of celebrity interviews, news, comment, articles, letters and an unrivaled selection of irresistible private number plates.

We work really hard on this magazine - especially me. Yes, the best of the content is written by your humble blogger. Colleagues contribute, of course but, as with so much that happens here, it wouldn't be possible without me.

If there were any justice, it would actually be me on the cover, however our editor (and lead guitarist) Mr Barrington Monkstein decided that the space would be better devoted to our guest celebrity interviewee, Sir Stirling Moss. Ok, Sir Stirling is a living legend. He is one of the great names of motor racing history, and a fan of personal number plates too. What is more, our interview team tell me that he is a perfect gentleman.

Well, all right. I suppose there are points in favour of featuring Sir Stirling on this cover.

Then I thought that maybe I should grace the next issue - but it seems that the editorial junta has already promised that slot to Mr Duncan Bannatyne from BBC TVs Dragons' Den show. Just as I was about to suggest the one after that, they thrust a list of forthcoming celebrity interviews into my hand. A list as long as your arm.

Strewth, at this rate It'll be Summer 2018 before I get a look in.

Oh, by the way, the magazine is absolutely free. Yep, that's right, we simply give it away to anyone who asks for a copy. Honest, it's true.

Skeptical? Ok, then. Click the link to order a copy and see for yourself.

Naughty Number Plates

Adam has been stirring things up a bit over at Numberplates.com.

Like most youngsters, he is a fidgety sort and he gets restless if there isn't much going on. Well, things have been a little quiet on the news front, so the devil seems to have found work for the lad's idle hands.

Inspired, no doubt, by the recent controversy surrounding car number plates which have been withheld by the authorities because of a perceived potential for offensiveness, he has come up with an article examining the range of available plates which seem, despite their cheeky appearance, to have slipped through the issuing authority's "Ooh, Matron" filter.

Why not pop over and take a look at the naughty number plates article...

Personalised Number Plates News

In a new service, just launched, Regtransfers.co.uk offers a range of resources for journalists and media researchers.

The new Regtransfers press/media centre contains details and history of the UK car registrations system, an overview and explanation of personalised number plates, number plates display regulations, 'PlateSpeak': the language of personal plates (how numbers are used to represent letters on number plates), record breakers (earliest, most expensive etc), celebrity plates (registrations owned by the rich and famous) and more.

As the UK's largest independent private number plates specialist, and publisher of the country's only regular professional publication on the subject, Regtransfers.co.uk: The World of Personal Number Plates, as well as the authoritative reference book, Fanatical About Number Plates, we have access to an unequaled range of news, information and historical facts. No other source is so reliable, comprehensive and current.

Inaccurate reporting of number plates news, facts and figures has been very common in the past. It is our aim to provide a library of information, and answers to frequently-asked questions, to which journalists may confidently refer when preparing articles relating to car number plates.

The information currently available will be constantly updated, and new material will be added on an ongoing basis.

Staggering Talent....

You have, in earlier posts, been introduced to the amazing, multi-talented Regtransfers marketing department. The range of skills gathered into this one nucleus of creative genius is, in the marketing department's opinion, unrivaled by any other specialist private number plates company or, indeed, by any other department in this company.

It's mostly down to me, of course. To be frank, although my colleagues all strive admirably, it is me who carries the department, but I don't mention this to them, of course.

Anyway, for your (undoubted) enjoyment, we offer a video of a recent stadium extravaganza where our private number plates magazine editor, Mr Barry Monks, and I, your humble blogger, joined a line-up of world-class musicians to play to an audience of thousands. Sadly, Numberplates.com's Adam Croft wasn't able to participate this time because the gig was after his bed time.

Barry and I appear in the right of frame nearest the camera, with guitar and mandolin respectively. Any quality issues are due to the careless camera work of Mrs Blogger, to whom I foolishly entrusted the task of filming...

Anyway, if you enjoy the performance please feel free to let us know. If you don't, well then I would suggest you follow the advice my mother imparted to me: "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Sadly, we are contractually forbidden to sign autographs, so please don't ask as a refusal will, no doubt, disappoint immensely.

Blog Bloggity Blog Blog...

Just what the world needs, there is another number plates blog! My colleague who runs Numberplates.com, the number plates club, and who you will know from earlier posts here, has just lauched a new blog on that site.

Young Adam (or "the idiot boy" as we fondly call him) will be regularly recording his thoughts on the world of personal number plates and probably a few other things. I wish him well with it - not least because it means he may stop scrawling his juvenile nonsense here.

Anyway, if you'd like to take a look, Adam's new blog is at www.numberplates.com/blog/.

It'll be mostly drivel, you know. For those of you who are used to the high standard of blog journalism that I regularly deliver here, I can only apologise in advance for the shambles that awaits you if you follow that link.