Engelbert's No.1

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Engelbert had celebrated his 69th birthday a few weeks before our visit and unbeknown to him, wife Patricia had asked a family friend to contact our sales team to help locate a personal registration for the Humpster's Jaguar. They were looking for a special joint birthday present and a personal number plate seemed an excellent idea.

As Engelbert has been the proud owner of registration EH 1 for some years now (displayed on his classic Rolls Royce Corniche), it seemed appropriate that he should also have a personal number on his other vehicle.

25 AGD was the birthday present from his wife Patricia and friend David Spradbury. Patricia had tried, but couldn't think of what to buy the man who has everything, so it was David who came up with the idea of a car registration. Although Engelbert already had EH 1, they thought they would buy something to represent his real name, Arnold George Dorsey.

They decided to call Regtransfers and one of our helpful sales advisors found the number 25 AGD. At first, his wife, Patricia, was worried that the numbers added together made seven, which might be considered unlucky, but fortunately she decided to buy it. The plates were made up and wrapped, and left at the bottom of the pile of cards that were waiting for him on the morning of his birthday. When he first opened them he thought it was a joke. But this quickly changed to elation as the 25 represented his birthday - the 2nd of the 5th - which his wife and friend hadn't realised at the time.

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