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It is if you're throwing statements like "the whole North West of England" about...

So don't.

Nobody else is.

Not at all. It's a very relevant one. Because that's how the scheme *WORKS*. The first two characters tell you which registration office handled the car's first registration. No more, no less.

Don't be daft.

Liverpool City Council reckon the population is 450,000 - over 300,000 smaller than 1937.

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Conor So you don't actually understand the meaning of the word "economics". Fair enough - a lot of people don't. Show...

That puts it EIGHTH in the country. Less than half that of Birmingham. Not much more than half of Leeds. One Sixteenth the population of London.

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)? Perhaps because nobody but you cares?

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Adrian .. ...a phrase which can have several different meanings, sometimes including Cumbria, sometimes Cheshire, sometimes neither...

Cars registered round here get a mix of Ox (Oxford), Rx (Reading), Lx (London) and Kx (Luton-Stevenage) registrations. You don't need to go far before you get to areas with dealers issuing Ax (Anglia). Doesn't mean here is any of those. Lease cars often come from dealers the other end of the country - ten years ago, I was working in Hatfield, ordered a new Rover 400, it came from a dealer in Huddersfield. Now, it'd have had a Yx plate instead of (probably) a Kx. So?

I seem to remember it originally being pitched as "M for Manchester and Merseyside", but...

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Conor You have a vivid imagination. It is true that you will find expatriate Liverpudlians all over the UK - indeed, all over the world (like Scotsmen and Irishmen...

The letter identifier is a bit tenuous at best... Fx - Forest and Fens? Gx - Garden of England?

Why do the taffs get Cx for Cymru, but the sweaties Sx for Scotland, not Ax for Alba or Ex for Ecosse? They seem fond of those terms for the country. See many complaining? (And let's face it, they don't normally need much excuse)




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