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Articles - "The Car" Editorial Jottings - The Registrations In anticipation of the coming into operation of the new Act on January 1st, large numbers of automobilists have already registered their cars or motor cycles, particularly in the metropolitan district. There has been some amount of competition for the securing of the number plate "A 1" and this has been acquired by Earl Russell for his Napier car. From other centres we hear that registration has been proceeding busily, automobilists recognising that the earlier their application the better their chance of obtaining a small number. Inasmuch as the size of the number-plate is not arbitrary, but has only to have a specified margin in addition to the actual letters and figures, it follows that the recipient of a single figure has a smaller plate than a man who is allotted a two-figure mark, and he is in turn more fortunate than the later applicant who received three figures as his official number. In Liverpool, on the first day for the registration of cars, writes our local correspondent, there was quite a rush of owners of private machines to secure a single letter number. In less than five minutes after the opening of the municipal buildings at nine o'clock, all the units were taken up, No. 1 on the register being secured by Mr A.G. Lyster, engineer to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
No. 79, November 25, 1903 - "The Car" There is one point however, in the regulations which I think
is an alteration for the worse. In the previous draft, vehicles
which did not exceed a maximum speed of twelve miles per hour
were exempted from carrying big numbers, and were allowed to carry
alternative plates one-sixth the size of the ordinary number plates.
This clause has now been eliminated, and the electric brougham,
for example, which in most cases is not capable of a speed of
more than fifteen miles per hour, if that, and is used solely
as a town carriage, must now carry numbers as big as the fastest
racing car. The object of identification is to catch those cars
which cannot be overtaken under ordinary circumstances, and which
are likely to go some distance before they can be traced. It is
therefore difficult to see why cars incapable of a speed in excess
of twelve miles per hour or so should be thus penalised in the
same way as the faster vehicles, or, in fact, more than horse
vehicles. Page
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