Celeb Car Registrations: 'Diddy' David Hamilton

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'Diddy' David Hamilton

It worked! I was so excited I called Ken after the show to tell him." Through the 1970's, David was the face people saw when they switched on Thames TV. He continued working as announcer and presenter, appearing in many high profile shows for a variety of networks: Chipperfield's Circus (Thames), Monty Python Show (BBC), Celebrity Squares (ATV), Generation Game (BBC), Blankety Blank (BBC) and The Tommy Cooper Show (Thames). He even had roles in films: Some Kind of Hero, Tiffany Jones and Confessions of a Pop Performer.

By 1976, David was one of a team of presenters regularly hosting Top of the Pops. It was also the year that he worked on television in America for the first time. He hosted a week of British programmes showcased by Thames TV on WOR-TV in New York. In addition, he presented News at Ten, giving a British slant to international news for New Yorkers. His time working in America took him across to Los Angeles where he co-hosted Mid‑Morning LA with Andrew Gardner. As soon as David came back to England, he was asked to host one of the biggest award shows - TV Times Top Ten Awards. In 1980 it reached number two in the national television ratings, with a giant audience of over 15 million viewers.

Soon after, David left his job as announcer for Thames TV, after working there for 20 years. He continued hosting a number of programmes and made many guest appearances on panel shows such as, Punchlines, Blankety Blank, Family Fortunes, Generation Game, Give Us a Clue, Babble, Game For a Laugh and The Cilla Black Show.

It wasn't long before he was invited to be involved in a new project; as a host for Lifestyle, one of the earliest satellite TV stations. He stayed there for the duration of the station's existence, until it was sold eight years later. In November 1986, David quit Radio Two after a disagreement over music policy. The following year he joined Reading's Radio 210 and by the time he left to join London's Capital Gold in 1989, listening figures had reached an all-time high. After six years at Capital Gold, he was headhunted by the Hanson Group, who invited him to present The Breakfast Show for London's Melody Radio.

During the 1990's, David was a guest on several shows on both satellite and terrestrial television, including: You Bet (LWT), Through the Keyhole (Yorkshire TV and BBC), Happy Families (BBC), Jobs for the Girls (BBC), Pebble Mill (BBC), 15 to 1 (Channel 4), Esther (BBC), Shooting Stars (BBC), Talking Telephone Numbers (BBC), Clive James on TV (LWT) and Vanessa (BBC). The Hanson Group sold Melody FM in 1998. David moved to another London station, Liberty Radio, joining the Classic Gold network in 1999.

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Displaying Your Car Registrations

A personalised car registration has a meaning to its owner and, more often than not, the owner wants to share that meaning with those who will see his/her number plates. The system of DVLA registrations the law requires us to use in the UK has certain limitations - we have to use the sequences of numbers and letters that the issuing authority releases - which means that a bit of imagination is needed to get the message across.

In some cases the meaning of a car registration is immediately clear. An example that comes to mind is that of S7 OUT which is owned by a Regtransfers.co.uk employee with the surname "Stout". He is rightly proud of his great number plate. Other examples, however, may not be so immediately clear to the beholder, and in these cases the owner is sometimes tempted to tweak the plate a bit to make the message easier to spot.

Regtransfers.co.uk strongly advises against altering your car registrations to vary from standard DVLA number plates. Changing the spacing between characters or groups of characters, or placing screws in places where they change the appearance of numbers or letters, makes your number plates illegal. If you are stopped by the authorities you have a good chance of being fined a substantial amount of money. What is more, they have the right to withdraw you personalised car registration without compensating you.

We believe that part of the fun is in finding good combinations that closely resemble the message you want to send on your plates. Another part of the fun is figuring out what the meaning of a plate is. Often you will see what is obviously a personal number plate, but it takes a few moments to work out the meaning. When you figure it out, that's when the smile comes.

Please don't risk displaying illegal number plates. Enjoy the fun of personalised car registrations safe from the attention of the authorities.

If you would like any advice on number plates display regulations, please call us on 01582 477333.

 
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