01-09-2017, 10:36 AM
Everyone who has recently been issued with a BF number
should know that it was withdrawn in 1904 after only 100 or so vehicles had been
Registered in Dorsetshire, after a Petition to a Parliament by the local landed gentry, who were the only ones to afford cars then.
They complained that the peasants were calling them Bloody Fools in them that motors
As they drove by. BF was withdrawn altogether in 1920. Check your old AA book!
Only to be re-issued for Bloody Fools who restore old cars!
I am now one of that number!
Bill G
should know that it was withdrawn in 1904 after only 100 or so vehicles had been
Registered in Dorsetshire, after a Petition to a Parliament by the local landed gentry, who were the only ones to afford cars then.
They complained that the peasants were calling them Bloody Fools in them that motors
As they drove by. BF was withdrawn altogether in 1920. Check your old AA book!
Only to be re-issued for Bloody Fools who restore old cars!
I am now one of that number!
Bill G
(01-09-2017, 09:44 AM)Dave Wheatley Wrote:(01-09-2017, 09:28 AM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: Thanks Dave - you are correct.
It appears that YF is currently assigned to Leeds and I made the assumption it had always been so - always a dangerous thing!
Another Leeds registration was UM, and I believe that BUM was never used so as not to offend those of a nervous disposition!
Similarly ARS, GOD, SEX, SOD and a few more were not used.
Apologies for thread drift.
Based near the Scottish Border,