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NUMBER PLATE "GP" MK1 BRIGHTON
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:04 pm
by chichestermini
As stated in the title, is anyone else registered with a mk1 mini plate starting as GP (Garden of England) Brighton, this is interesting to me i would love to see if there is any mk1 siblings that have survived. I've never seen another one!!!
Re: NUMBER PLATE "GP" MK1 BRIGHTON
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:12 pm
by johnsimister
That's not how number plates worked back then. The first letter is simply an alphabetic identifier, while the P and the following letter denoted the registration authority. Many of the Ps - PA, PB, PC, PD, PE etc - were Surrey County Council, some were East Sussex (PM and PN), some West Sussex (PO and PX), etc. So NPE 115D (a car I used to own, now dead) was a 1966 Surrey number. Coincidentally, then, a GPM or GPN would be East Sussex and might have been been seen in Brighton.
When the new system arrived in 2001, most of the two-letter place identifiers were changed although a lot of London 'L' ones stayed the same. That's when the 'Garden of England' became cheesily immortalised on G-prefix plates.
I'll get my anorak.
John
Re: NUMBER PLATE "GP" MK1 BRIGHTON
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:20 pm
by foxy52
johnsimister wrote:That's not how number plates worked back then. The first letter is simply an alphabetic identifier, while the P and the following letter denoted the registration authority. Many of the Ps - PA, PB, PC, PD, PE etc - were Surrey County Council, some were East Sussex (PM and PN), some West Sussex (PO and PX), etc. So NPE 115D (a car I used to own, now dead) was a 1966 Surrey number. Coincidentally, then, a GPM or GPN would be East Sussex and might have been been seen in Brighton.
When the new system arrived in 2001, most of the two-letter place identifiers were changed although a lot of London 'L' ones stayed the same. That's when the 'Garden of England' became cheesily immortalised on G-prefix plates.
I'll get my anorak.
John
Re: NUMBER PLATE "GP" MK1 BRIGHTON
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:27 pm
by foxy52
thats a perfect summing up j... my first car was east sussex reg mini fjk...jk and bp being common..i had a jap and wap in latter years..also nnj nj also denotes west sussex cars... also a hpb..pb being surrey ,..as u say as opp to bp in sussex... as u say the 2cd and 3rd letter denote areas of registration.. foxy52
Re: NUMBER PLATE "GP" MK1 BRIGHTON
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:47 pm
by chichestermini
John, i feel like a complete moron! Thanks for taking the time to reply, indeed my car does actually have the registration GPM!
This is great news, so it would still be nice to find other similars
Once again, thanks for your time!
Thomas
Re: NUMBER PLATE "GP" MK1 BRIGHTON
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:03 pm
by hanlminiman
The original registration of my ex John Cooper car was R*** GPN. Sadly not a Mk1 which might have been GPN *** B?