Explain you private plate

[Migwell030744]

The nearest I ever came to having a private plate was way back in 1972 before you could officially buy them. My initials were coming up in Newcastle and I was buying my new Vauxhall FB Victor 2.3 SL. The lady at the town hall said if she was on the page before MVK 1 L, I could have it. So I would go in each day to see where they were up to, when it got to the time of it being nearly there she asked for my address. When I gave it to her she said while I lived in Newcastle, the border for the purpose of having a New Registration from Newcastle stopped at the bottom of the hill about 1 mile from my address, I had to have a Northumberland plate. There was a second chance I was told, where was I buying the car from? When I told her it was coming from Whitley Bay, again she said that is Northumberland. If you bought the car in Newcastle you could have the number you want. The Whitley bay dealer was giving me a far better exchange for my old car, Over £100 more, and that Adams and Gibbons in Newcastle, now Bristol Street Motors would not go any better than £400 trade in. I was not able to afford the car if I only got £400 for the Ford Cortina, so I just had to let the idea go.

In those days I understand if you owned a car with a special number, to you, they would re-register the car it came off and give it a W Prefix or something like that and you could then keep your own number and register the new car with it. the last time I looked the nearest I could get was L1 MVK and that was Going to be £500