Even Stephen's

Stephen W Latimer from Loughborough in Leicestershire, purchased an orange MGF sports car that he bought from his next-door neighbour. The following week, his perfect registration SL 1000 just happened to come along thanks to Regtransfers.co.uk’s advertisement in the Daily Telegraph motoring supplement – uncanny timing since he never spotted a number plate so attractive before.

Stephen was very keen to try and trace the history of this original and very old Dundee registered mark and we are pleased to be able to tell him that ‘SL’ prefix numbers were first issued at Clackmannonshire, Scotland in December 1903.

It was a bureaucrats’ paradise in those dark and dismal days of 1973, when car numbers purist Stephen William Latimer fancied the letters ‘SWL’ for his Mini. He discovered that the ‘SWL’ sequence was first issued in Oxfordshire so he placed an advert in the local paper and received one reply from someone who was about to scrap a Ford Corsair bearing the registration with 84 SWL.

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