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This may bring back memories to anyone in the Motor Trade.

  • 21-06-2008 7:52pm
    #1
    PanhardPL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 511 ✭✭✭


    This is a copy of the form that had to be filled out for every journey and held by any person driving a vehicle with a Limited Trade Plate (the one with the triangular Disc), which was in use until 1987 and replaced by the current Green Type plate, which is very restricted.
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  • #2
    Wishbone Ash
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    It's unusual that it says "Police Officer" instead of "Garda"! :confused:


  • #3
    PanhardPL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 511 ✭✭✭PanhardPL


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    It's unusual that it says "Police Officer" instead of "Garda"! :confused:
    Well spotted. There were always Gardai that had a thing about Trade Plates and the first thing they demanded was the docket which had to be filled in for every journey, with the correct route and times.


  • #4
    Wishbone Ash
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    The actual Statutory Instrument also refers to "police". In 1923 as we had just gained independence, it was possibly copied directly from the British Regulations and the use of 'police' was an oversight.


  • #5
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    The actual Statutory Instrument also refers to "police". In 1923 as we had just gained independence, it was possibly copied directly from the British Regulations and the use of 'police' was an oversight.

    The Garda Siochana did not come into being until August 1923, and was then only governed by a temporary act which was going to expire in 12 mths. I suppose the word police officer was used in a generic sense, and since the Road Vehicles instrument was never revisited, the word police officer had to remain on the docket as per the instrument.

    Interesting.


  • #6
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    maidhc wrote: »
    The Garda Siochana did not come into being until August 1923, and was then only governed by a temporary act which was going to expire in 12 mths. I suppose the word police officer was used in a generic sense, and since the Road Vehicles instrument was never revisited, the word police officer had to remain on the docket as per the instrument.

    Interesting.
    I didn't know that - thanks. :)


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  • #7
    Bitten & Hisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Bitten & Hisses


    When I was in school, there was a guy in my class whose family had a garage. His mother drove around for years in 2.5-litre Mercedes without ever taxing them. At one stage, they even made up a set of plates in a motor factors with "0xx-AIN" on them and put them on the car instead of its normal plates. I don't know how they got away with it for so long


  • #8
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    ...indeed. Remember 'For Reg' plates............? They could last years !! :D

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #9
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,079 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ^ That Reg guy certainly got a load of cars (and bikes)! Had a few of his in back in the day. :D

    Not your ornery onager



  • #10
    nmacc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭nmacc


    There was a black BMW 320 that lived in Milltown at the end of the '70s and he had raised digit silver-on-black For Reg plates. I used to see it regularly from my bus for several years.


  • #11
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Bitten & Hisses wrote: »
    When I was in school, there was a guy in my class whose family had a garage. His mother drove around for years in 2.5-litre Mercedes without ever taxing them. At one stage, they even made up a set of plates in a motor factors with "0xx-AIN" on them and put them on the car instead of its normal plates. I don't know how they got away with it for so long
    Myt old man bought a new escort in 82,and ran it with for reg on it for a few weeks, finally got a ZX plate then,apparently it wasnt a problem.


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  • #12
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    Myt old man bought a new escort in 82,and ran it with for reg on it for a few weeks, finally got a ZX plate then,apparently it wasnt a problem.
    It was normal to go around for a few weeks with 'For Reg' on a piece of cardboard where the plate would go but some people used to totally ride the system. I recall a neighbour of mine buying a car in march 1979 and when it was eventually registered it had 1980 plates! :rolleyes:


  • #13
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    It was normal to go around for a few weeks with 'For Reg' on a piece of cardboard where the plate would go but some people used to totally ride the system. I recall a neighbour of mine buying a car in march 1979 and when it was eventually registered it had 1980 plates! :rolleyes:
    Yeah, i think the old man wanted one of the new ZX plates at the time,the ****IN series was just finishing up, he got a nice 3 digit ZX plate in the end..:D,long since crushed now though il bet...


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