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The 'C' plate can be complicated with vehicles originally registered before suffix letters where the original number has been transferred as a cherished plate or where the vehicle has been rebuilt using parts without identification numbers.
Not all local registration offices started with 'A' or even 'B' plates. This meant that the first available suffix was a 'C' and when a vehicle needed a replacement number that is what was issued, for the first few years at least.
Later they did start to use 'A' plates even in places where they were not originally issued.
Out of the ordinary Scottish registration numbers also often indicate a vehicle which has been given a replacement number.
I had a '58 BSA Bantam and the frame got bent. I found a legal replacement 'scrap' frame without paperwork and rebuilt the bike. The Local registration office gave me a 'C' plate for my 'new' bike even though every part of it was 7 years old, or older.
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The Mad Landsman
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