Number Plates Auctioneer

What makes company the market leaders in buying and selling cherished number plates?

established in 1982, by tony brown, company employs over 80 staff, including around 50 dedicated sales advisors who are ready to take your call, speak to us from 8am to 11pm, 7 days a week!

it is easy to find the number plate of your dreams with the comprehensive services that company offer. Just type your name, initials or a word in the search box and all the options will come up on the screen in seconds. Alternatively, you can call a sales person for advice on choosing the right number for you. They will endeavour to come up with alternatives that you had never even thought of!

if you still can’t find a particular plate, just sign up for the reg alert service and wait to be emailed when your plate becomes available!

when you have decided on the plate that you want, you can be assured of the best price with the company price promise. On top of this you will receive a full transfer service free of charge.

if you are buying a number plate as a gift, why not send the certificate with a set of acrylic plates? Or if you are not sure what to choose, you could buy a gift voucher instead.

just some of the categories set up to help you find what you are looking for are: names and initials, words, executive collection and a to z listings. The searches are numerous and can be related to your name, your business, your hobby or even your pet!
what makes company different from the rest?

together with over 24 years of experience, one of the secrets of company success has been its ability to maintain the highest standards of customer care at all times. This first class service not only includes finding the best number plate to suit the individual needs of the customer, but expert handling of all the transfer paperwork, thus taking the worry out of the customers hands.

company continual re-investment in technology, people, training, quality assurance and marketing, ensures they are best placed to provide customers with an unrivalled service, now and in the future.

with access to virtually every number plate on the market, company have truly positioned themselves as the uk’s leading supplier of personal number plates. Their underlying philosophy has always been that there is always “something for everyone”.
what are cherished number plates all about?

the first registration system in the world began in baden, germany in 1896. Great britain introduced compulsory registration on 1st january 1904. A system had to be thought up to make the growing number of car drivers accountable for their vehicles and their actions on the roads. One of the ideas considered was to give a name to each car – like ships. Fortunately this wasn’t used! And the alphanumeric system was born.

registration marks were issued in great britain as early as august 1903, but it was in december 1903 that the london county council issued the first london mark, a 1, to earl russell.

commonly misunderstood by many, personal or cherished number plates can now sell for more than the average priced house. Prestigious numbers such as mg 1 and ms 1 are 100-year-old antiques! They are also among the most popular initials in the country.

in december 1993 an anonymous buyer paid a staggering pound 235,000 for their ultimate number plate: ‘k1 ngs’ (kings). More astounding was the time it took the auctioneer to achieve this figure – just over two minutes!

other examples of registrations sold for large amounts of money are: ‘1 a’ pound 202,000 ‘s1 ngh’ (singh) pound 108,000 ‘1 rr’ pound 106,000 ‘g1 lly’ (gilly) pound 87,500 ‘p1 lot’ (pilot) pound 82,500& ‘ elv 1s’ (elvis) pound 75,000.

thankfully not all registration marks are so expensive. Many start from as little as pound 79, plus a fee of pound 80 payable to the department of transport on all vehicle to vehicle transfers. Love them or hate them, personal number plates are becoming more and more popular, as a mark of individuality and often as an investment for the future.
who buys personal number plates?

traditionally the status symbol of celebrities such as jimmy tarbuck (com 1c) and paul daniels (mag 1c), personal plates have now become the ultimate accessory for every car owner due to the huge variety of plates available at very reasonable prices. Take a look at some of the customer’s stories on the pr page or in the new free customer magazine.
excluding department of transfer fee of pound 80 plus vat.

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