Basically found some old family videos the other day from the 1950's, which showed the number plates that my grandfather used to have on his old cars.
Looked on the motor insurance database and they are not currently registered to a vehicle.
Looked on the likes of New Reg/DVLA personalised registrations and they are not currently for sale.
So I rung up the DVLA personalised registrations department and asked if i could buy the number plate in question. The lady took the plate details, then came back to me and said that unless i owned the car that the number plate is on then i couldn't buy the plate. I tried to tell her that this was previously on a car from the 1950's, and that it is not currently on any car at the moment. She told me that basically the plate has been lost in history lol!
I find this a little stupid! Here I am, a customer willing to pay for a number plate that is not currently in use, and they don't want to take the money for it! They said that they can't make the number plate up again simply because I do not have the car that it was previously registered with. The likelihood is that that car is not even in existence anymore! The lady did say something about the DVLA not owning the plates or something, so i wondered if it was another organisation that i needed to speak to?
Does anyone have any experience of this??