Waterford Post 86 reg

80sDiesel

Anyone know what reg they are giving out for 87+ classic cars? I know south Tipperary is 87TS800x but can't find any info on Waterford county and city.

macplaxton

(after the 5th December 2011 / big long numbers changes)

C Cork 40001
CE Clare 9001
CN Cavan 6001
CW Carlow 5001
D Dublin 120001
DL Donegal 11301
G Galway 16801
KE Kildare 16001
KK Kilkenny 8001
KY Kerry 10001
L Limerick City 6001
LK County Limerick 11001
LD Longford 4001
LH Louth 11001
LM Leitrim 3001
LS Laois 6001
MH Meath 15001
MN Monaghan 6001
MO Mayo 10001
OY Offaly 7001
RN Roscommon 6001
SO Sligo 7001
TN Tipperary North 6001
TS Tipperary South 8001
W Waterford City 7001
WD County Waterford 6001
WH Westmeath 8001
WX Wexford 11001
WW Wicklow 11001

80sDiesel

Cheers for that

Tzar Chasm

Are you W or WD ?

PaulK_CCI

Slightly, or actually totally off topic, :angel: but I'm going to ask nevertheless, anyone any idea as to why Waterford and Limerick have a seperate letter for the city and rest of the county. It's not that these cities are so large, that they require a seperate number batch. Why not Cork, Wexford and Galway? And the other odd one out is Tipperary, I mean, how many people live in Tip for it to be needing Tip North and South!!!??

Silvera

It's a good question Paul!

Afaik, it's historically-based on the relevant cities/counties having separate county council (and electoral?) areas.

As you are probably aware, Tipperary now uses one letter 'T' for the whole county (this only applies to new vehicles registered since 1-1-14).

Likewise, Limerick now only uses 'L' and Waterford only uses 'W'.

macplaxton

As said by Silvera, it's nothing to do with numbers. It's to do with local government. Here's the longer version...

Cork County Borough & Cork County merged their car registration offices in 1974, and use C for the whole lot
Galway City became a County Borough and combined 1985 so use G
Dublin (Dublin Corporation & Dublin County Council) - D for the whole lot as they were unified.
Limerick City - L
Waterford City - W

Those five are single letter because they were County Boroughs.

Local government changes in 2014 resulted in:

Limerick City Council (L) and Limerick County Council (LK) merged to become Limerick City and County Council - L
North Tipperary County Council (TN) and South Tipperary County Council (TS) merged to become Tipperary County Council - T
Waterford City Council (W) and Waterford County Council (WD) merged to become Waterford City and County Council - W

L, LK, TN, TS, W, WD still get issued for pre-141 plates as per old arrangements.

That roughly makes sense of it, with the following anomalies:

When Dublin got divvied up in 1994 into Dublin City Council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, South Dublin County Council and Fingal County Council. They never in the end allocated new codes for each administrative area. (something they should have done to avoid telephone number length serials)

Combining TN and TS should result in a two-letter TY, because Tipperary isn't a County Borough.

Tzar Chasm

If you live in County Waterford you have the choice of W or WD