Two's Company

Danielle Cooper and Ivor Jacobs each have their own companies - but they still clearly enjoy each others’. Danielle is from Preston originally but now lives in Derbyshire with her partner Ivor. She became interested in number plates after seeing her father's private plate as a child.

She realised how different it was from everyone else's and dreamed of finding her very own personal plate one day.

At an early age, she would go travelling with her father and would both spot and make a note of unusual plates. One of these was 5403 AC, which her father bought and has owned for more than 25 years.

Bug

Ivor, of course, also got the number plate bug when he was very young; six years old, in fact. Again it came about because of his family's plate PJ 1212 which was on his dad's car at the time. Unfortunately he doesn't own it any more. He finally bought his first plate, 7 VUR, in 1977 and over the years has added 1 VUR, H11 VUR, 11 MJ, 111 OR and 1 UOR to his collection.

Danielle and Ivor met by chance after an unusual meeting following a football match between Preston and Nottingham Forest 18 months ago. They found they had a lot to talk about - and not just number plates! Animals play a major part of Danielle and Ivor's life together. They have horses, dogs, rabbits, ducks and chickens. Plus any waifs and strays that Danielle might find whilst she is out and about.

Ivor has two daughters and, after many years of searching with the help of number plate dealers such as Regtransfers, has found plates for them as well. ROX 1E and ROX 1J for 12 year old Roxi and DAN 1J and D4 NYJ for Dannielle, who is now 17 and will soon be driving.

Domain

At one stage Danielle worked for a metal recycling company - a job that lasted for 7 years. It got her thinking about starting her own business and after securing her own website domain name, www.danielle.co.uk she is now looking for ideas of how best to use it. If anyone has any please get in touch via email on: danielle@danielle.co.uk.

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