Re: Changing car registration

JNugent (not.telling@xxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

- though one wonders why a large city like Liverpool - about the
second largest in England

<snip>
That puts it EIGHTH in the country. Less than half that of
Birmingham.

Birmingham is the biggest city by population in England, no contest.

Ever heard of London? Or is London not a "city" by some bizarre logic?
Or isn't it in England?

Not much more than half of Leeds. One Sixteenth the population of
London. http://snipurl.com/p9no

Leeds does not have 900,000 population

Who said it did? That link says 700,000 - as does the 2001 Census as
reported on www.leeds.gov.uk - but then, they've got a vested interest,
haven't they?.

- and its population was artificially enlarged by some 50% in 1974 by
the effects of local government reorganisation, so you are comparing
apples and oranges.

Yet Liverpool's shrunk to a half of it's size 70 years ago. Learn to
live with the fact that your city is dying.

Leeds doesn't even have a metropolitan telephone exchange. And London
is not a municipality. I don't know that any constituent borough of
London has a population of 450,000, though Croydon might approach it.

Gosh. "Big cities are split into smaller bits".

Even if there were only one DVLA HQ office and no regional offices,
it would still be possible to issue distinct Liverpool marks to
vehicles newly registered at addresses there.

<sigh>
Manchester isn't even the nearest LVLO to Liverpool. According to
Autoroute, it's 32 miles from Liverpool to Manchester. If it's such
an issue, why don't Liverpool new car dealers use the Chester LVLO
(19 miles) and get a Dx (Deeside)?

Why would that be better?

Because, if you're so paranoid, it isn't Manchester? And, therefore,
couldn't be perceived as Liverpool being subsumed into Manchester?

Or, perhaps, Px-for-Preston? That's only four miles further than
Manchester.

(Besides - Does Manchester even WANT Liverpool? Has anybody asked 'em?)

Perhaps because nobody but you _cares_?

Go to Liverpool and ask.

No, thank you. I've been there before. It was enough. There were some
nice - if pretentious - bits around Albert Dock, surrounded by what
appeared to be a massive toilet.

I agree that it isn't as important in non-conurbations

You mean in places without such a paranoia about their "identity"?

and it is even less important when the identifier does not imply
subordination.

Which it doesn't. It implies that the first registration paperwork of
that particular vehicle was processed by a registration office which
just happened to be in Manchester. That's all. From that, you choose to
infer some conspiracy.

<sigh> - One last time. It's simple. The LVLOs were divided into rough
areas that registered roughly similar numbers of vehicles every year.
Then, within those areas, the second letter was allocated, again,
according to the rough number of vehicles registered by each office
every year. The Manchester office is busy enough to have a whole first
letter to itself, it seems. The borders and NW register enough to cope
with two entire other letters - Dx and Px. All the Addison Lee minicab
fleet in London are on Dx plates - because, presumably, they're sourced
from a dealer somewhere up there.

Perhaps Liverpool itself just doesn't register that many new cars? It's
hardly the wealthiest part of the country, after all.

It should have been L for Liverpool, C for Capital, W for Wales.

W is "West of England". What should they use for West of England? That
comprises three registration offices - Truro, Exeter and Bristol.

The spare first letters are I, J, Q, T, U, X and Z.

<thinks>
Obvious, innit? T for Taff.
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