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From: Derek Turner on 1 Jun 2010 13:57 French-registered car parked in our street - nothing unusual about that but this one has RED plates with silver characters: two letters - three numbers -two letters. What's that about then?
From: des hanging around for a while on 1 Jun 2010 14:03 On 01-06-2010, Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> wrote: > French-registered car parked in our street - nothing unusual about that > but this one has RED plates with silver characters: two letters - three > numbers -two letters. What's that about then? It's a foreign-registered car whose owner has moved to France. The plates are temporary. HTH. -- des 'The Jews haven't attacked any Arab village, unless attacked first' (Ismayil Safwat, 'Palestinian' (sic) commander, March 1948)
From: wessie on 1 Jun 2010 14:19 des hanging around for a while <des(a)des.com> wrote in news:4c054b5b$1(a)news.x-privat.org: > On 01-06-2010, Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> wrote: > >> French-registered car parked in our street - nothing unusual about >> that but this one has RED plates with silver characters: two letters >> - three numbers -two letters. What's that about then? > > It's a foreign-registered car whose owner has moved to France. The > plates are temporary. > > HTH. > or, as DT is in the Channel Isles, a car bought in France "duty free for export" and has yet to be registered in CI. http://plaque.free.fr/f_e.html - bought prior to 10-04-2009 according to that website -- wessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS
From: des hanging around for a while on 1 Jun 2010 14:21 On 01-06-2010, wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> wrote: > des hanging around for a while <des(a)des.com> wrote in > news:4c054b5b$1(a)news.x-privat.org: > >> On 01-06-2010, Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> wrote: >> >>> French-registered car parked in our street - nothing unusual about >>> that but this one has RED plates with silver characters: two letters >>> - three numbers -two letters. What's that about then? >> >> It's a foreign-registered car whose owner has moved to France. The >> plates are temporary. >> >> HTH. >> > > or, as DT is in the Channel Isles, Oops, sorry.. 'didn't know that. > a car bought in France "duty free for > export" and has yet to be registered in CI. > > http://plaque.free.fr/f_e.html - bought prior to 10-04-2009 according to > that website Wot 'e said. -- des 'The Jews haven't attacked any Arab village, unless attacked first' (Ismayil Safwat, 'Palestinian' (sic) commander, March 1948)
From: Ofnuts on 1 Jun 2010 15:16
On 01/06/2010 20:19, wessie wrote: > des hanging around for a while<des(a)des.com> wrote in > news:4c054b5b$1(a)news.x-privat.org: > >> On 01-06-2010, Derek Turner<frderek(a)cesmail.net> wrote: >> >>> French-registered car parked in our street - nothing unusual about >>> that but this one has RED plates with silver characters: two letters >>> - three numbers -two letters. What's that about then? >> >> It's a foreign-registered car whose owner has moved to France. The >> plates are temporary. >> >> HTH. >> > > or, as DT is in the Channel Isles, a car bought in France "duty free for > export" and has yet to be registered in CI. > > http://plaque.free.fr/f_e.html - bought prior to 10-04-2009 according to > that website Nope, 2L/3N/2L is the new scheme. See <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaque_d%27immatriculation_fran%C3%A7aise> -- Bd. o.f.n.u.t.s(a)la.poste.net (drop dots except last) TDM900/UKRMMA#2 |