Number Plates
DVLA AUCTION OF CHERISHED NUMBER PLATES
DVLA will be holding another auction of cherished number plates and private car registration numbers. The auction will have 1600 lots being offered for sale and the date for this auction is 26th,27th and 28th November 2014.
For a full list of the numbers being offered for sale please visit our web page
Vehicle Road Tax Disc – Don’t be caught out, know the rules
October 1st 2014 will mark the biggest change in vehicle tax history as we see the end of the paper Vehicle Road Tax Disc. When taxing your vehicle from this date forwards you will no longer receive the iconic little round paper tax disc and our windscreens will be bare. The reason for this change say the DVLA is that the paper vehicle road tax disc has become redundant over time and the police rely on the DVLA’s electronic vehicle register and the ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) technology to check whether a vehicle is taxed or not and getting rid of it will apparently save taxpayers around £10 million every year and removes administrative inconvenience for businesses over the country. The new rules that will come into effect will be:
A tax disc no longer has to be displayed even if the car has vehicle road tax remaining, however you are still legally allowed to display an old tax disc
The vehicle road tax will not now transfer over to the new owner when a car is sold. The seller of the vehicle will be issued with a refund for any full calendar months left on the vehicle tax
A buyer must purchase the vehicle road tax immediately so not only will they have to arrange the insurance they will also have to arrange for vehicle road tax before they can even drive the vehicle away
To buy your vehicle road tax disc you can do this online or by calling 0300 790 6801 or by visiting a Post Office branch.
With no paper tax disc how then can you check a suspect vehicle. To check the MOT and vehicle tax status of any car you can go to www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk
If your vehicle is classed as Historic which qualifies for free vehicle road tax disc you will still need to tax it and also vehicles that no longer require an MOT i.e. pre-1960 still need to be ‘taxed’ although it is free and even though there is no longer a disc to show it.
Will this new way forward cause any issues or will it all be easy and hassle free – no doubt we shall see.
DVLA – What the general public really think
What do the general public really think of DVLA. Well last year the DVLA was reviewed by Mary Reilly who is a non executice director at DfT. This is what she had to say and what some of her recommendations were. Review of DVLA
DVLA 64 Series Personalised Registration Numbers
Looking to buy a new 64 Personalised Registration Number. From June 4th 2014 the new 64 series can be purchased for a limited time. If there is a specific combination that you are looking for then please call one of our sales staff on 0116 235 0116 where we will be able to assist with your enquiry. Remember that these particular registration numbers can only be transferred to a September 2014 registered vehicle.
DVLA Personalised Number Plate MAY 10R with London Mayor Boris Johnson
Normally seen riding around on a bike Boris Johnson was recently spotted driving round in a chauffeur driven car with the DVLA Personalised Registration Number MAY 10R which is valued at approx £20,000.
Review of DVLA
A review of DVLA’s functions has been carried out by Mary Reilly a non-executive Director at the Department of Transport and it takes for some interesting reading.
A snippet for you – In 2012/13 the DVLA sold around 250,000 registration marks, collected some £68 million and processed over 750,000 transfer and retention applications.
To view the whole review
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/283795/review-of-dvla.pdf
Aston Martin DBS from The Persuaders up for sale
For those of you that can remember back to the super seventies I am sure you will also remember the TV programme ‘The Persuaders’ which starred Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, an action packed TV show shot in various exotic locations and the most expensive series filmed at that time.
As well as starring two of the best known actors at the time the show also featured two prestige cars an Aston Martin DBS and a bright red Ferrari Dino.
The rare Bahama Yellow painted DBS which was built in 1970 and specially modified for the TV show is going under the hammer on 17th May 2014 at the Bonhams Aston Martin Works Sale in Newport Pagnell.
The car featured in nearly all of the 24 episodes and was registered for the TV show with the number plate BS 1 (the Aston Martin’s real number plate was PPH 6H) . When Roger Moore took the role of James Bond the show came to an end and the Aston Martin DBS was returned to Newport Pagnell for reconditioning.
Over the years the car has had 5 owners and is now being offered on the open market for the first time in its 44 year history.
Update for you the Aston Martin DBS used by Roger Moore in The Persuaders! sold for an astounding £533,500 at Bonhams’ Newport Pagnell sale, the highest price ever paid for a DBS at auction.
DVLA LOCAL OFFICE CLOSURES
As of December 2013 all local DVLA Vehicle Registration Offices around the country were closed.
The offices in question were:
Aberdeen, Bangor, Beverley, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Chester, Dundee, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Inverness, Ipswich, Leeds, Lincoln, London Borehamwood, London Sidcup, London Wimbledon, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Preston, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Stockton, Swansea Vale, Theale, Truro and Worcester.
You must now send all applications including Personalised Number Plate Transfers to:
DVLA
Cherished Transfers Section
DVLA Swansea
SA99 1DS
The telephone number for any enquiries is : 0300 790 6802
Mothers Day why not treat her this year.
Mothers Day falls on 30th March so why not treat her this year with her own personalised number plate. It can be your mother, your grandmother your step mum or that special person you call mum even your mother-in-law. We have many car number plates to choose from and it will be something that she can keep forever.
Search our database containing 1000’s of cherished car number plates prices starting from as little as £50 plus vat.