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Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 5:54 pm
by Aardvark
I had a thought over the weekend, can we found out which motorcycle dealership registered our bikes. I am just interested in knowing were my bike came from.
Aardvark
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:45 pm
by SAM
Getting the full history is £5 well spent. Have on all my uk bikes. My S3A from Luton.

My H2C been with a few club members.
My S3 scottish.
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:34 am
by Olde Coney
If your bike still carries the original registration number that will indicate which town it was registered in which in turn should narrow down the original selling dealership
I remember there was always an alphabetical listing in the old AA members handbooks
Just found this
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/johnstonrh/a30a35/regnos/
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:58 am
by 666rog
My H1D is from Read Titan at Leytonstone, east London. I remember picking it up brand new a little over 40 years ago

Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:01 am
by Aardvark
Thanks Boys.
The list you sent old coney, only seems to go up to 1973/74, my gal was registered in 1976. I sthere another list that may go later.
Sam you mentioned the best £5 spent, is that with the dvla or is there a different web site.
Aardvark
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:02 pm
by SAM
DVLA.
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:57 am
by Olde Coney
Aardvark wrote:Thanks Boys.
The list you sent old coney, only seems to go up to 1973/74, my gal was registered in 1976. I sthere another list that may go later.
Sam you mentioned the best £5 spent, is that with the dvla or is there a different web site.
Aardvark
TBH I just googled it
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:25 am
by Triple Parts
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:51 am
by Malcolm
Reg plate area codes remained the same all the way up until 2001 so the list Rog gave you would still be valid for your needs

Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:54 pm
by Aardvark
Well with my reg OGO, that makes it London.
Quite a small place I believe
Well will try DVLA
Cheers
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:40 pm
by El Presidente
Aardvark wrote:
Quite a small place I believe
I suspect it was quite a small dealership, registering just a single Kawasaki every One or Two weeks, I have had a guess at your complete number and if correct the next bike after yours was a Z900 and the bike before yours a Bronze KH500, what is confusing me is that for 5 numbers either side of yours there is a time span of a few Months, which would indicate to me that the dealer that sold yours was allocated his own batch of reg numbers beginning "OWO"
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:08 pm
by Hal
El Presidente wrote:, what is confusing me is that for 5 numbers either side of yours there is a time span of a few Months, which would indicate to me that the dealer that sold yours was allocated his own batch of reg numbers beginning "OWO"
Dealers would be given batches of numbers rather than registering bikes directly onto the system individually as the modern digital age facilitates. The order and when they use these nubers up was left in their hands. For instance you had an H2C (now in Texas still?) registered one digit away from mine (724P against 725P) though mine was on the road in August 75 and yours in December 75 yet with the lower number.
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:22 am
by husson73
my first H2A on the seventies was sold new from Martin Motos à TROYES :smt003
Re: Can we find out which dealership reg our bikes
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:35 pm
by bbb
Very true about dealers having a "batch" of numbers, I well remember being given a choice of number from a list of available numbers, in fact I still remember one of them, YJA567T. (Sorry but 'twas a Honda)