There’s nothing new about vehicle licensing. In 1903, the Motor Car Act introduced steps to identify motor vehicles and the people who drove them.
The first registration marks had a single letter and one number – A1 was issued in London! Over the years, these got longer. In 1965, a new central administration was created with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre in Swansea, using automatic data processing.
Since 1974, this organisation has been the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), and there are now also 40 local offices working on registrations.
From 1 January 1973, vehicles had to have reflective number plates – black on white at the front and black on yellow at the rear. A new format introduced in late 2001 meant that DVLA number plates now take the style of two letters, a two digit year identifying number and three suffix letters.
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