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Search for 'genuine' Orkney number proves fruitfulNow living in England, Chris Burrows from Orkney, has found a true Orkney number plate after an extensive search. Chris said: "As a Scot married to an Englishman and living in England, I still feel that "home" for me is in Orkney, where I spent my childhood. Orkney is the group of islands lying off the north coast of Scotland beyond John O'Groats. In the late 60's I bought my first car in Orkney. It was a dark blue Vauxhall Viva, registration number B2 7629. The BS registration has always been assigned to Orkney, and because the population is relatively small and very stable, most of the cars there still carry the local registration, or did until the new format was introduced in 2001. It therefore has very strong associations with home for me. "While waiting for the delivery of my Mercedes SLK, my husband suggested that we should put a personal plate on it. Not wanting to have my name or initials on my car my first thought was that it would be fun to find BS 7629. "An enquiry to DVLA established that it no longer exists. It may well have ended up as a rusting heap on some forgotten corner of Orkney, or been pushed over a cliff when the car got too old, a common way of disposing of old cars on a remote island. So we started to look for a similar BS registration. The DVLA were very helpful and suggested that they could construct "7629 BS" for me, but I wanted a "genuine" one, and Orkney never had the reversed format with numbers before letters - there were not enough cars! So we spent a whole winter reading lists in newspapers and on web sites while I waited for delivery of the SLK. Eventually we found BS 7625 and I decided that was near enough to do. It has been on my SLK ever since and I have become very attached to it. I have no doubt that I will keep this number now and that even if I end up driving something completely different from the SLK, it will still be registered BS 7625."
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